You can bet they just wish those nights didn't come at the hands of the Regina Pats.
The Warriors dropped a 5-2 decision to the Pats on Friday at Mosaic Place in the first game back after the Western Hockey League's Christmas break before falling 5-0 in the re-match the next night at Brandt Centre in Regina.
The Warriors fell to 10-19-2-0 on the season with the losses, have one win in their last 10 games and dropped into last place in the East Division, two points back of fifth-place Regina.
Regina 4, Warriors 2
The Pats didn't have a ton of high-level scoring chances in the first game of the home-and-home, but we able to get things done nonetheless.
Drew Englot and Austin Pratt scored in the first period before Robbie Holmes and Ty Kolle added markers just over a minute apart late in the second frame to give Regina a 4-0 lead heading into the third.
“We felt we had chances the whole game, we passed up some shooting opportunities early in the game and didn't get pucks to the net,” said Warriors head coach Tim Hunter on WarriorsTV. “Then they had four scoring chances, I don't know if they had much more than that, and they capitalized... we could have used a power play goal at the end there, but it's tough after an 11-day break to get your power play running on all cylinders. It was a good finish to the game, we competed right to the end.”
Chase Hartje got the Warriors on the board with 12:51 gone in the third and added his fourth of the season with 3:04 to play to make things interesting down the stretch.
The Warriors would get no closer, though, as Riley Krane scored an empty-netter with 29 seconds to play.
Adam Evanoff turned aside 30 shots in goal in taking the loss, Max Paddock stopped 28 shots for Regina.
Regina 5, Warriors 0
It isn't often a team gives up five goals and their goaltender is one of the standouts of the game, but that was the case for the Warriors and Adam Evanoff the next night in Regina.
Evanoff would make 36 saves on the night and kept the Tribe in the contest despite a steady deluge of Pats scoring chances.
Former Warriors forward Carson Denomie scored the game's first goal 7:06 into the second period and that would stand as the game's lone marker until Regina blew things open with four goals in the third.
Zach Wytinck made it 2-0 1:28 into the period before Logan Nijhoff and Ty Kolle scored 33 seconds apart three minutes later to put Regina ahead 4-0.
Ryker Evans closed out scoring with 7:08 left in the game.
The Warriors are back in action Tuesday night for their annual New Year's Eve game against the Brandon Wheat Kings. Game time is 7 p.m. and fans can swing over to the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre after the contest to ring in 2020 during the New Years' Bash. The game will also feature the 50/50 jackpot starting at $20,200.
