Wings Down Moneymen!

The Weyburn Red Wings returned home after a weekend road trip to the far north and rebounded from Saturday's loss over Flin Flon with a 5-3 victory over the Melville Millionaires.

The Millionaires struck first as Chris Shudo used his speed to get in behind the Red Wing defense and put the back hand breakaway shot past AJ Whiffen to make it 1-0 Melville. Aaron Decorby assisted on the goal. The Wings would respond just over a minute later as some aggressive forechecking by Josh Bray would lead to Brayden Nargang find a streaking Adam Feniak for the goal to tie things at one. The Wings would take the lead at the 9:06 mark of the second as Nargang took a super pass from Connor Krukowski right up the middle and scored on the breakaway to make it 2-1. Feniak also assisted on the goal. The Wings would then score a pretty power play goal just under six minutes later to take a 3-1 lead. Torrey Lindsay and Rhett Bly used some pretty tic tac toe passing to set up Preston Shupe for his 17th of the season. The Wings would make it 4-1 with a shorthanded goal by Nargang just 1:47 into the third period as the Millionaires got sloppy in their own end and Josh Bray found Nargang with a pass to give the Wings the big lead. The Millionaires would make a game of it though as Matt Kinnunen cut the lead to 4-2 at the 3:28 mark of the final period from Shane Stanicky. The Millionaires would then cut the lead to one at 9:27 of the period as Levi Lind picked up his 7th goal of the season as he had a wide open net to shoot at. Decorby and Austin Krahenbil assisted on the goal. Erick Ruud rounded out the scoring for the Wings as he added an empty netter with 41 second to play with Scott Doody and Eric Calibaba getting the assists. AJ Whiffen picked up the win as he stopped 24 shots on the night. Joe Rodwell took the loss for Melville stopping 21 shots. The Wings lead over Kindersley remains at seven points as the Klippers downed Notre Dame tonight. The Millionaires are more than likely going to finish third in the Sherwood.

Other Boxscores from tonight:

Notre Dame 1 - Goal: Kyle Ireland; Assists: Rylan Schwartz, Andrew Bzdel
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Kindersley 4 - Goals: Ryan Sawka, Jerrett Bicknell, Jonathan Redlick, Kendall Holmes; Assists: Travis Eggum (2), Matt Sawa, Jordan Braid, Mat Olson, Brett Leedahl, Sawka, Bicknell

Winning Goaltender: Ryan Nieszner (24/25)
Losing Goaltender: Mark Currie (41/45)

Flin Flon 4 - Goals: Pierre - Luc Boucher (2), Dennis Kubat, Dustyn Clegg; Assists: Cameron MacKinnon (2), Cole Wilson (2), Myles Masse, Boucher, David Linsley, Matt Dyck
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Yorkton 1 - Goal: Cody Zubko; Assists: Greg Coburn, Kyle Block

Winning goaltender: Carsen Chubak (28/29)
Losing goaltender: Joel Danyluk (13/16 - 20MP), Lynden Sammartino (16/17 - 40:00)

Estevan 1 - Goal: Kyle Stroh; Assists: Payden Benning, Kyle Ermel
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Humboldt 5 - Goals: Tory Allan (2), Scott Schroeder, Matt Rintoul, Matthew Kirzinger; Assists: Kirzinger (2), Brady Wacker (2), Steven Schroeder, Voldy Dashko, Shawn Hunter, Mitchell Stretch, Jordan Schindel, Cory Knaus

Winning goaltender: Taylor Nelson (29/30)
Losing goaltender: David Ritz (35/40)

Melfort 4 - Goals: Taylor Watt (2), Nick Kalnicki, Clint Olson; Assists: Olson (2), Kalnicki
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La Ronge 2- Goals: Everette Lerner, Jarrid Dowhay; Assists: Joel Belair, Calvin Fiddler, Jordie Johnston

Winning goaltender: Ilia Ejov (30/32)
Losing goaltender: Jonathan Jobin (30/33)

Nipawin 4 - Goals: Brent Ottmann, Matt Schneider, Taylor Thiessen, Kyle Cowan; Assists: Torrie Dyck (3), Blair Toms (2), Thiessen, Schneider, Dean Prpick
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Battlefords 0

Winning goaltender: Derek Kleinsteuber (shutout)
Losing goaltender: Adrien Lemay

- Brad M.