Regina Halts Chiefs’ Run Spokane Streak Ends At Six As Pats Ease To 4-1 Whl Win

The Spokane Chiefs’ longest winning streak of the season came to an unproductive end Saturday.

Struggling through their fourth road game in five days, the Chiefs dropped a 4-1 Western Hockey League decision to Regina.

The Pats, the third-best team in the WHL’s East at 27-16-4, used a pair of goals from Ronald Petrovicky - including the 100th of his WHL career - and 21 saves by Ryan Hoople to stop Spokane’s roll of six consecutive wins.

The Chiefs (32-14-3) remain three points behind idle Portland (35-8-2) in the West.

Regina scored twice off Spokane goalie Aren Miller in the first 3:26. Petrovicky, taking advantage of assists from Shane Lanigan and Brett Lysak, found the net with his 40th goal of the season at 1:32. Josh Holden of the Pats made it 2-0 when his 28th goal of the year followed assists from Boyd Kane and Brad Stuart.

Spokane broke through at 4:24 of the second period when Zenith Komarniski scored at 4:24 for his first goal as a Chief. Ty Jones was credited with an assist.

The Pats answered at 9:32 of the second on a goal from former Chief John Cirjak, and put the game away at 4:11 of the third when Petrovicky made it 4-1.

Spokane takes its 18-8 road record into Kelowna on Friday night at 7:35. The Chiefs return to the Spokane Arena the following night, again against Kelowna, at 7:05.

Pats 4, Chiefs 1

Spokane 0 1 0 - 1

Regina 2 1 1 - 4

First period- 1, Regina, Petrovicky 40 (Lanigan, Lysak), 1:32. 2, Regina, Holden 28 (Kane, Stuart), 3:26. Key penalties-Calder, Reg, 1:42; Ference, Spo, Double minor 3:04; Petrovicky, Reg, 6:35; Suter, Spo, 12:21; Suter, Spo, 17:21

Second period- 3, Spokane, Komarniski 1 (Jones), 4:24. 4, Regina, Cirjak 26 (Holden), 9:32 (pp). Key penalties-Cabana, Reg, 6:00; Holden, Reg, 14:53; Severson, Spo, 16:02; Lysak, Reg, 20:00.

Third period- 5, Regina, Petrovicky 41 (Calder, Lysak), 4:11. Key penalties-Cote, Spo, 2:01; Petrovicky, Reg, 7:16; Jones, Chiefs bench, too many men 13:49.

Power-play opp.-Spokane 0 of 7; Regina 1 of 8. Saves-Spokane, Miller 12-11-13 -36. Regina, Hoople 5-9-7 -21. A-3,663.