Last night, on January 9, 2026, the Brooks Bandits hosted the Blackfalds Bulldogs in a BCHL regular season matchup at the Centennial Regional Arena. The Bandits came out on top with a 5-3 victory over the visiting Bulldogs. The game marked the Bulldogs’ road trip to Brooks as they aimed for a third straight win, but the home team secured the two points in what was an interdivisional Interior East contest,
Harry Ahlberg makes it a 1-0 game for the Bandits at 17:00 backhand five hole goal. The assist on the goal went to 20 year old Irvine, California native Francois De Villiers
Brooks makes it 2-0 at 8:51 of the first period when Russian Mark Konstantinov scores. The assists on the goal went to Liam Fitzpatrick and Jack Good.
Bulldogs score just 9 seconds into their first Power Play of the game at 12:46 of the first period when Joey Melo scored his 11th goal of the season. The assists on the goal went to Thomas Neu and Brendan GIles.
Shots on goal in the first period were 12-9 for the Bulldogs
Red Bank, New Jersey native Luke Melnik makes it 3-1 for the Bandits at 4:14 of the second period with the assists on the goal going to Jack Good and Slovakian Michal Marsalek.
Harry Ahlberg scores his second goal of the game to make it 4-1 at 16:49 of the second period while shorthanded. He capitalized on a massive Bulldogs error and Mathis Dufor found Ahlberg and sent him in all alone.
Shots on goal in the second period were 8-3 for the Bandits
Jared Langdon got the Bulldogs within 2 at 3:38 of the third period. The assists on the goal went to Duncan Thompson and Danny Hussa.
Bulldogs pulled their goalie with 3 minutes remaining and of course eventually the Bandits fired it down and scored. The goal was scored by Francois De Villiers unassisted.
Danny Hussa scored on a short handed with 1:30 left in the game unassisted but it was just too late.
Shots on goal in the third period were 14-10 for the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs despite falling asleep the whole second period still outshot the Bandits in the game 29-27.
Zach Zahara made 26 saves on the 29 shots that he faced for the win for the Bandits. For the Bulldogs Carson Mertz made 22 saves on the 26 shots that he faced
Three Stars of the game were 1) Harry Ahlberg 2) Jack Good 3) Zach Zahara
Attendance in Brooks was 1134
Bulldogs next home game is Saturday January 10th against the Chilliwack Chiefs in Blackfalds.
