{"id":605789,"date":"2026-04-15T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:59:16","slug":"pisarczyk-calgary-hitmen-face-must-win-stretch-in-playoffs-discoverairdrie-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605789\/","title":{"rendered":"Pisarczyk, Calgary Hitmen face must-win stretch in playoffs &#8211; DiscoverAirdrie.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airdronian\u00a0Wyatt Pisarczyk and the Calgary Hitmen are in a do-or-die scenario, down 3-0 in the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Hitmen are taking on the Medicine Hat Tigers and now must win four in a row:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame four: Tonight &#8211; In Calgary &#8211; 7 p.m.&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame five: Friday &#8211;\u00a0 In Medicine Hat\u00a0&#8211; 6 p.m. (if needed)&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame six: Sunday &#8211; In Calgary &#8211; 4 p.m.\u00a0(if needed)&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame seven: April 21 &#8211; In Medicine Hat\u00a0&#8211; 7 p.m.\u00a0(if needed)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In game one, the Hitmen lost 3-2 in overtime. In game two, Calgary lost 4-3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IgfPZ_esjzU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">then in game three, Medicine Hat had their most convincing win of the series so far, 5-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pisarczyk has contributed a goal and an assist so far in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the postseason, Calgary was the fourth-ranked team in the West Division while Medicine Hat was second.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p>First round<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the playoffs, the Hitmen defeated the Brandon Wheat Kings on four straight games:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame one: 1-0&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame two: 6-5&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame three: 3-1&#13;<br \/>\n\tGame four: 4-2&#13;<\/p>\n<p>During the regular season, he played in 64 games, scoring four goals and assisting on 25.<\/p>\n<p>Pisarczyk was drafted by the Hitmen in the 2022 Draft, round two, pick 29.<\/p>\n<p>He spent his younger years playing in Airdrie&#8217;s hockey system with teams like the U15 AAA Airdrie Xtreme and U18 AAA Airdrie Bisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdronian\u00a0Wyatt Pisarczyk and the Calgary Hitmen are in a do-or-die scenario, down 3-0 in the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-605789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605789","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=605789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}