2024 Road to Memorial Cup – Moose Jaw vs Portland – Game 1

2024 Road to Memorial Cup – Moose Jaw vs Portland – Game 1

musja Warriors in the whites winter hawks in the Reds and the WHL final is underway in Portland off the dle top Topline back out there now for the Warriors looking to strike in the early going these two teams are built very much alike they’re about speed a ton of skill and a lot of offens of fire power Face Off to the glove side right of and yet both teams are very good in their own right at defending themselves interesting to see how this series plays out for sure down into the corner and this guy knows how to think the game he skates extremely well I think of Ivan PR off back in the day with the Brandon he would play a ton as we are set to roll second period action from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum still looking for the first goal of the thewl fin great stride and continues on the rush because of that great reception off the draw right up the middle hit a body and now will be played out to the neutral zone calm down there cavoy plays it ahead what a pass picked up backhand denied penalty coming up loose Puck still there sponar with the biggest save of the hockey game and now as a winter hawks touch it power play second of the G for Atley calber Calbert looking for for the Icebreaker walks in it scores must goes on top silences the crowd here at veterans when Memorial Coliseum penalty shot buried by calber oh baby until the last second and Calbert certainly did as he took his time and look at they had to be patient in lowc scoring games for the most part and and that’s a skill in and of itself where you don’t try to go out and win the game in a ship enters the Zone left wing side side plays it down into the corner ferus throws it around Jagger first on it here ferus throws it in front and they score m he Chuck on a great feed from ferus and the Warriors go up two [Applause] nothing just dead silent in the building now two of the leading scorers in the playoffs connect for the second goal of the game for all eyes on number 277 in the corner well you forgot about that guy left of your screen D matuk who has the coal lead now with 28 points each with a point on this point play look at that right side corner to the weak side point good activ Jagger sends it into the glove of sponar drops it immediately plays it up the ice nice play by the net minder here’s an opportunity but his only walks it it scor but Aon fires in Far Side Winter Hawks have life 21 well we talked about the golender and how important they were going to be in this series I don’t know that it was creating off he’s made a couple of nice plays advancing the the puck and this one and an indirect up to bazon who catches it in full stride on his off wing and he goes cross Grain on oner this is a big one down to nothing not a whole lot of energy in this building hard to believe those guys will stay quiet here in the third yeah I agree you can try to make them look normal and suffocate to some degree but they’re going to get theirs eventually look at say a one go hockey game and cuts off the wall throws it across they score what the feed from Davies and it’s the captain Gabe clawen who ties it in [Applause] two that was the double overtime Hero 5 minutes into this third period and a non call earlier and just a great job Davies holds that puck as he takes a clip to the face and a back half feed over to the captain Gabe clet for a sixth of the postseason and that’s a big one to get this whole crowd energized to tie this game at two 1546 remains in this tie hockey game and shunar comes up bck face off that’s scramble taken and played out to the neutral zone bumps it back to the Thompson Thompson couldn’t get it out cleanly Calbert will take over Calbert in front Sao with a shot and he scores Matthew boy puts the warriors on top late in the third period yeah and this one is a direct result of mismatching for this team and right there it’s Canon just doesn’t get that pass to where he wants it to go and there’s Calvert above his option defensively in the right place good defense leads to Great offense and it’s Calbert that sets up seavoy for his ninth of the playoffs and that’s a big one here 302 go and the Warriors have their their lead and that may do it for game one the Moosejaw Warriors roll into Portland and take it 32 over the winter hawks first blood in the WHL championship series to the visitor

Matt Savoie scored the late go ahead goal as Moose Jaw earns a 3-2 game one win over Portland.