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The term 'Home Sweet Home' usually refers to the feeling one gets or has when they know that they are returning to friendly territory after being away for a certain period of time.

That was not the feeling the Yorkton Harvest had when all was said and done Saturday and Sunday evening.

After returning to the confines of the Gallagher Centre this weekend after having played five games in a row on the road over close to three weeks, their homecoming was not a warm one.

It was -7 degrees outside and that didn't make anyone feel any better either.

When the Moose Jaw Generals came to town for a weekend homestand with the Harvest, the home side Harvest scored the opening goal once in the two games that they played; according to head coach Graham Garrett and team captain Dustin Skilliter, that's about all that went right for the Harvest.

Garrett said the team is pretty much out of options when it comes to getting help sent down from Junior 'A' teams and Major Junior 'A'.

They are winless through the month of November. As a result, Garrett said they will not be playing in the annual Mac's tournament this year and pointed out that the past two years that they did play in it, the Harvest had poor records in that month.

The road trip that the team just returned from saw them win two and drop three. They beat the Hounds 5-2, lost the first of two games to the Battlefords, 4-2 but won the rematch there the following day which saw them score a season-high nine goals in a 9-6 win, however that was the last time they would come out on top, having dropped a 6-1 decision at the Notre Dame Argos and a 3-2 contest at Tisdale.

When the Generals became the first visiting team to capture both games at Farrell Agencies Arena by a combined goals total of 7-3, Garrett pinned the blame on the fact that on many game nights, Yorkton can't string together three straight periods of hockey.

They will play 40 minutes sometimes, 20 minutes other games, maybe even less in some cases but against the league's top teams as of Sunday night (Contacts-Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Notre Dame Argos), anything less than a full effort from everybody is not going to win games.

Garrett said that being able to string together victories against teams that clearly have the upper hand in the standings is probably going to take even more than just changing the lines around."No, I don't know," says Garrett following his team's 4-1 loss to Moose Jaw Sunday evening. "We have to look at other things."

Maybe the fact that Yorkton did not get blown away in either game is the best consolation in losing to a team that's eight points better in the standings, which is only four more wins.

In Sunday's game, the Harvest struck first, said Garrett but then added that all communications went dead after that and then a "stupid" penalty cost them the next goal, he said.

Kailum Gervais got Yorkton on the board early in the first period but Moose Jaw scored on a power play advantage then did it again in the second period which came after they had already taken a 2-1 lead.With the score 3-1, they scored a shorthanded goal to put the game away.

Despite being outscored in the third period, Yorkton brutally outshot the third-place Generals 17-7 in that period.

Garrett said it was a lacklustre middle frame that cost them the game.

Next up for the Harvest is the Notre Dame Hounds on Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.

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