The Red Deer Rebels just nailed a five-game winning streak, taking down the Calgary Hitmen 4-3 in overtime on Tuesday night at the Peavey Mart Centrium. Kalan Lind returned after sitting out nine games recovering from an injury he got against the Hitmen back on October 28.
17 year old Surrey, BC native Chase Valliant scores his second goal of the season 1:56 into the opening period to make it 1-0 Hitman. Assists on the goal to Carson Wetsch and Keets Fawcett.– Chase Valliant staked the Hitmen to an early lead, chipping a rebound by Stoesser just 1:56 into the contest.
Kalan Lind scores his 3rd goal of the season in his first game back after missing 9 games due to injury. That evens the score at 1-1 at 9:49 of the first on the Power Play with the assists on the goal going to Mats Lindgren and Ollie Josephson.– Lind evened the score eight minutes later with Red Deer on the power play. Mats Lindgren unloaded from the point and Lind, in front, tipped it home.
Keets Fawcett scored his 4th goal of the season unassisted at 18:40 of the first period to give the Hitmen a 2-1 lead.– Keets Fawcett restored Calgary’s lead late in the opening period. As he cut to the net the puck glanced off Stoesser’s skate and right back onto Fawcett’s stick.
Shots in the first period of play were 9 to 7 for the Calgary Hitmen.
The second period was scoreless and the shots were a whopping 14-5 for Red Deer.
Frantisek Formanek ties the game up at 2 at 5:33 of the third period with the assists to Kalan Lind and Kai Uchacz. -The Rebels finally pulled even 5:33 into the third when Lind came out of the corner and fed Frantisek Formanek, who stepped around Buenaventura and shovelled home a backhand.
Dwayne Jean Jr scored his first goal of the season at 9:45 of the third period to give the Rebels a 3-2 lead. Assists on the goal to Jace Weir and Matteo Fabrizi.– Dwayne Jean Jr. gave the Rebels their first lead of the game just over four minutes later. Jace Weir spotted his teammate down low and after hauling in a perfect feed from the defenceman, Jean Jr. potted his first goal of the season.
Then in the dying minutes while on the Power Play Carter Yakemchuk scored his 11th goal of the season at 18:14 of the final period to tie the game at 3. The assists on the goal went to Oliver Tulk and Tyson Greenway.-The visitors forced extra time with a power play goal off the stick of Carter Yakemchuk with 1:46 remaining in the third period, the star defenceman blowing a shot past netminder Rhett Stoesser from the top of the right circle. It was a six-on-four goal with Buenaventura on the bench.
Shots in the 3rd period were 11-9 Hitmen
Kai Uchacz ,scored the winner in OT 41 seconds in to give the Rebels the win with the assists on the goal to Ollie Josephson and Mats Lindgren- The Rebels ran their winning streak to five games when Ollie Josephson carried the puck around the Calgary net and passed out to Kai Uchacz, whose one-timer from the high slot beat goaltender Ethan Buenaventura 41 seconds into overtime.
Overtime only seen one shot and it solved it. Shots in game were 31-25 Rebels.
Rhett Stoesser made 22 saves on the 25 shots that he faced for the win. While Ethan Buenaventura made 27 saves on the 30 shots he faced for the Hitmen.
Three Stars of the game were 1) Frantisek Formanek 2) Keets Fawcett 3) Kai Uchacz
Attendance in Red Deer was 2,857
Rebels next game is Friday December 1st against the Moose Jaw Warriors in Red Deer.
Carter Yakemchuk continues to climb the draft rankings. As of this post mynhldraft.com has him ranked as #12th. I read a good comparison about Yakemchuk a poster made at a hockey forum. He praised Yakemchuk and hated that his team had to play against him. He called Yakemchuk “Annoying a 6’4 Cory Perry on Defence” lol. Yet there he is listed at 6’2
The Western Hockey League announced Monday that Rebels netminder Rhett Stoesser was the WHL Goaltender of the Week for the week ending November 19, 2023
