The Swift Current Broncos dropped a tight 3\u20132 decision to the Calgary Hitmen on Wednesday night at the InnovationPlex in their final meeting of the season.<\/p>\n
Calgary opened the scoring early in the first period when Kale Dach buried a rebound just 1:17 into the game. The Broncos settled in and played a strong defensive period the rest of the way, but the Hitmen struck again late when Ethan Moore finished a two-on-one rush at 18:17 to make it 2\u20130 after one.<\/p>\n
Swift Current responded quickly in the second period. Just 12 seconds in, Trae Wilke scored his 19th of the season on the power play, finishing a slick passing play from Anthony Wilson right off a Hudson Darby faceoff win. The rest of the period featured tight checking at both ends as neither team could find another breakthrough.<\/p>\n
Early in the third, the Hitmen capitalized on a five-minute major power play when Caine Wilke scored on a rebound at 1:19, despite an outstanding initial save by Archer Cooke, giving Calgary the eventual game-winning goal. The Broncos answered midway through the period as Trae Wilke struck again on the power play at 6:34, with assists from Hudson Darby and Marek Ro\u010d\u00e1k to pull Swift Current within one.<\/p>\n
The Broncos continued to push late in the game and pulled the goaltender in the final minutes, but were unable to find the equalizer.<\/p>\n
Calgary finished with a 25\u201319 edge in shots. Swift Current went 2-for-4 on the power play while Calgary went 1-for-5. The Broncos also held a slight edge in the faceoff circle, winning 31 of 60 draws. Archer Cooke turned aside 22 of 25 shots in another strong performance in goal.<\/p>\n
With the loss, the Broncos fall to 13-41-4-3 on the season. They return to action Friday, March 6 at the InnovationPlex against the Wheat City Walleye in Game 1 of the Fishing Derby series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swift Current Broncos dropped a tight 3\u20132 decision to the Calgary Hitmen on Wednesday night at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-515704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}