YORKTON – The Yorkton Terriers lost out to the Weyburn Red Wings in their Feb. 14 matchup at Westland Arena.
The Terriers gave up five goals to the Red Wings in the first period starting with Jakob Kalin at 8:36, Ryley Morgan at 9:36, a successful power play effort from Jackson Hassman at 10:44. At 16:00 of the period the Terriers swapped goalie Caleb Allen and replaced him with Tysen Smith for the duration of the game. Another power play goal at 16:09 came by way of Blake Betson and the final goal of the period came by way of Max Henderson at 17:34.
The second period was a change of pace for the Terriers. Quintin Unreiner put the team on the board at 11:48 and Dylan Ruptash made use of a power play effort, scoring at 15:56. The Red Wings — still up by three points — managed another at 17:04, with Hassman claiming his second goal of the game.
Feeling the pressure of a four-goal deficit the Terriers knew they had to turn things up to stay in the match. At 5:35 Terrier Brett Butz opened up scoring in the third, followed by a short handed goal from Clay Sleeva at 7:12 and a successful power play effort saw Cohner Saleski turn it into a one goal game at 13:55. Smith was pulled from the net with 18:02 left to go in the period, but the extra man on the ice wasn't enough to tie the match and the Red Wings Matteo Turrin put one in the empty net resulting in the 7-5 loss for the Terriers.
Caleb Allen was in net for the first 16 minutes of play, taking on 11 shots and blocking 8.
Tyson Smith saw 18 shots and blocked 15.
Dazza Mitchell was in net for the win blocking 24 shots.
The Terriers will face the Red Wings in Weyburn on Feb. 18.
