Outlaws Drop Home Opener to Heat
Prince Albert, SK - The Prince Albert Outlaws took the the floor at the Kinsmen Arena for the first time since 2019 but fell to the Regina Heat 12 - 8.
The party at the Kinsmen got off to an early start in this one. Brendin Currie found the back of the net just 1:09 into the game. Regina would strike back quickly when Fraiser Belanger tied things up just over a minute later. Kurtis Peifer welcomed himself to the PGLL Senior Division when he scored his first goal of his rookie season with a beautiful crease dive to put the Outlaws ahead by 1 at the 4:38 mark of the period. Kallen Currie would double up the Outlaws lead with his first career senior goal at the 7:32 mark. Shortly after that is when things started to go bad for the Outlaws as they took 4 penalties in the final 10 minutes of the first period. Including give the Heat a 5-on-3 powerplay which they would score on twice. The Heat would go on to score 5 goals in the last half of the first to take a 6-3 lead after 20 minutes.
The Outlaws looked to claw back in the second period. Kallen Currie would get his second of the night just over 3 minutes into the second period. Regina’s Adam Stewart would respond quickly for the Heat to make it 7-4. Ethan Kennedy would score his first career goal as an Outlaw at the 8:51 mark of the period on the powerplay to make it 7-5. A little over 3 minutes later, Kennedy would score again to bring the Outlaws within a goal. Then just 28 seconds later Kallen Currie found a streaking Brody Holizki who would score on the breakaway to tie the game at 7. The game remained tied until 4:29 left in the period when Stewart would add another to go up 8-7. Regina would then score 2 more in the next minute to go up 10-7 after the second period.
The Outlaws looked to climb back in the third period but Regina had different plans. The Heat would add 2 more goals in the first half of the third period to go up 12-7. Ryan Potie would pick up his first of the new campaign when he scored off an Ethan Kennedy rebound with 8:03 left to go to make it 12-8.
Both goaltenders were able to hold off the other team and Regina would walk away with the 12-8 victory over the Outlaws.
Kallen Currie finished the game with 2 goals and 3 assists, while Ryan Potie finished with 1 goal and 3 assists. Lucas Wells made 42 saves in the loss.
Check out the full boxscore here.
The Outlaws next game will be Saturday May 14 in Regina for the back half of the home-and-home series with the Heat.