{"id":519881,"date":"2026-03-07T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:13:11","slug":"petruics-hattrick-maiers-shutout-lead-huskies-to-canada-west-finals-game-one-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519881\/","title":{"rendered":"Petruic&#8217;s Hattrick, Maier&#8217;s Shutout Lead Huskies to Canada West Finals Game One Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MRUCougars.png\" alt=\"Mount Royal Cougars\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Mount Royal Cougars<\/p>\n<p>3\/7\/2026 | 8pm<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 07 (Sat) \/ 8pm&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MRUCougars.png\" alt=\"Mount Royal Cougars\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Mount Royal Cougars&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/opponent-history\/mount-royal-cougars\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CALGARY, Alta. \u2013 Pure domination from the Dogs.<\/p>\n<p>On the backs of <a href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/nolan-maier\/6446\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6446\" target=\"_blank\">Nolan Maier<\/a> 33 saves shutout and a hat trick from <a href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/chantz-petruic\/5203\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5203\" target=\"_blank\">Chantz Petruic<\/a>, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies downed the Mount Royal University Cougars 5-0 in game one of the Canada West men&#8217;s hockey championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to come in and establish our game early,&#8221; said Saskatchewan head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/coaches\/brandin-cote\/924\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"924\" target=\"_blank\">Brandin Cote<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re an opportunistic team; we took advantage of those opportunities. Our powerplay scored a couple and I thought our penalty kill was really good, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Petriuc got the Huskies on the board halfway through the opening period while on the man advantage. Running the point on the powerplay, Petruic snuck a low shot through traffic that eventually made its way under the pad of MRU netminder Shane Farkas.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas had a night to forget between the pipes, allowing five goals on 21 shots in the crushing loss.<\/p>\n<p>Petriuc got his second of the game in the second period and former Cougar <a href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/ethan-regnier\/5205\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5205\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Regnier<\/a> added another one shortly after to drain the life out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Regnier has been a thorn in the side of Mount Royal since taking his talents to Saskatoon and was producing in the biggest moments yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Petriuc completed the hat trick early in the third. Coming into the 2025-26 postseason, the fifth-year winger had accumulated five career playoff goals. In just this Huskies playoff run alone, Petruic has five more to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/huskies.usask.ca\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/keaton-sorensen\/5212\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5212\" target=\"_blank\">Keaton Sorensen<\/a> added onto the beatdown with his second of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Although the game was highlighted by an offensive outburst, Saskatchewan&#8217;s best player was arguably their goalie.<\/p>\n<p>Maier joined the Huskies halfway through the season. Although he is a rookie in Canada West, the former Saskatoon Blade boasts a wealth of experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a pro hockey goalie. He played pro for three years. We&#8217;re very fortunate to get him here at the deadline,&#8221; said Cote on his netminder.<\/p>\n<p>On the other bench, the Cougars felt bewildered by the performance they just gave. By their own standards, it was one of the worst games they had played in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We laid an egg. So, you know, we got to just flush it,&#8221; said MRU bench boss Bert Gilling. &#8220;Still have to give all the credit to [Saskatchewan]. They played great. They looked like the defending champions and want to be repeat champions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Mount Royal, it&#8217;s hard to understand how they could&#8217;ve faltered so severely after playing fantastic hockey for the greater part of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were very light on the puck; had some weird bounces. We couldn&#8217;t make a play to save our lives tonight,&#8221; said Gilling. &#8220;It was very uncharacteristic of our group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan will have the opportunity to become back-to-back Canada West champions on Saturday night in game two. The Cougars will look to do what they did last year and extend the series to a game three on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop for game two is set for 7 p.m. MST at Flames Community Arena. Tickets to the game are SOLD OUT but fans can still catch the action live and on-demand on Canada West TV \u2013 Powered by Biosteel.<br \/>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Mount Royal Cougars 3\/7\/2026 | 8pm &#13; Mar. 07 (Sat) \/ 8pm&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-519881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519881","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=519881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}