MOOSEJAWTODAY.COM -- The wins just keep adding up for the Moose Jaw WINMAR Warriors.
The Warriors put together a pair of commanding 7-1 victories over the Yorkton Maulers on Saturday and Sunday in Yorkton in Sask Male AAA Hockey League action, running their win streak to seven games and continuing their perfect run in November.
Moose Jaw is now 12-2-1 on the campaign and have moved into sole possession of third place, one point back of the Prince Albert Mintos and two back of the first-place Regina Pat Canadians.
Warriors 7, Yorkton 1
Moose Jaw wasted little time getting things going in their opening game of the weekend, as Carson Park, Brennan Brown, Maxx Fuessel and Gage Nagel all scored in the first period for a 4-0 lead after 20 minutes.
Tanner Wiens got one back for the Maulers midway through the second, but Marek McIvor and Kaden Costley scored 47 seconds apart late in the frame to make it 6-1 through two.
Brown then capped scoring in the contest with the game's final goal shorthanded with 11:56 to play.
Fuessel finished with three points; Carson Deichert, Joel Pinel, Maxon Johnston and Ryan Gibbs all had two assists each.
Luke McKechnie stopped 27 shots in goal for Moose Jaw, Reid Schweitzer had 26 stops for Yorkton.
Warriors 7, Moose Jaw 1
Things were closer in the early going in Sunday’s rematch, with Brown and Franks scoring goals early and late in the period to go along with a marker from Yorkton’s Layne McKechnie.
The Warriors got things going in the second, though, with Brown scoring his second of the game and single goals coming off the stick of Gibbs and Kierin Osberg for a 5-1 Moose Jaw lead.
Nagel and McIvor closed out scoring in the third.
Fuessel had two assists in the game.
Kaleb Page had a relatively quiet night in the Warriors’ goal with 19 saves, Casson Silbernagel stopped 39 for the Maulers.
The WINMAR Warriors are back in action on Saturday when they host the Regina Pat Canadians in a first-place showdown. Game time is 1:30 p.m. at the Moose Jaw Events Centre.
