After Friday night's tough loss to the Estevan Bruins, the Weyburn Red Wings traveled to Moosomin, the home of assistant captain Jevon Schwean, for a neutral site game against the Notre Dame Hounds on Saturday. The Wings were shut out 3-0 thanks to blocked shots by the Hounds, opportinities being sent wide, flipping over the stick, or the stellar work in the crease of Riley Kohonick.

Jospeh Young got the start for the Red Wings and he was tested early, just 31 seconds in, but he was ready for the challenge. A quick shot labeled for the top corner was stopped along the way by his glove.

Just one mark was made on the scoresheet in the first period, a single hooking call on Notre Dame's Jospeh Santalucia four minutes into the period. The Red Wings failed to score, although the powerplay had some good looks and fired lots of shots on goal and gained some momentum as a result.

Jevon Schwean was solid defensively in front of his home crowd, shutting down the rush as it entered the zone and keeping the game fairly clean to start things off, but there was a spark of what began last game in Estevan still lingering. The Wings outshot the Hounds heavily in the first, but couldn't find the back of the net.

After one:

Weyburn 0 - 0 Notre Dame, Shots 18-6 Weyburn

The second period would come with a little more fire and it started when Mathieu Belanger crashed the net for a rebound. The Wings had another quick start on the shot clock when just unde three minutes in, Rhett Frey took the puck into the zone and fired it off the pad of Kohonick. Belanger went looking for the rebound, battling a defenceman along the way, and bowled Kohonick over. Two minutes for goalie interference.

After the penalty was killed, the Hounds started to gain a little momentum. On the following two minutes, they would hem the Wings in the defensive zone and when they weren't there, the puck was turned over at centre quicky. A breakdown in the defensive zone caused a scramble in front and Jarrett Penner was able to finally punch the puck home for his 12th of the season at 7:34 into the period.

After that, the Wings got a chance in the offensive zone and as he went into the corner, Braden Birnie's stick got a little high as he went for a check, and he went to the box. On the powerplay, the Hounds crashed the net of Young, and Penner took a run from the blue line in and mauled Young over with no intention of stopping, and the Red Wings stepped in to defend their goaltender.

Once the pile was cleared, Penner was escorted off the ice with five minute major and a game misconduct for charging. Less than a minute of 4-on-4 later and the Wings had 3:40 of powerplay to work with. Again the Wings were relentless on the powerplay, firing the puck at every opportunity they could, but screens turned into traffic, shots labeled for the net turned into saves, rebounds turned to stoppages, and loose pucks turned into clears.

Another later in the period, Curtis Wiebe took another roughing call for the Hounds, and the Wings went back to the powerplay. That was cut short as Birnie again went in on the forecheck and took his man into the boards as he went for the puck. The whistle blew, everyone in the rink looked around for what exactly caused the stoppage, and next thing we knew Birnie was sitting for ten on a head contact penalty while Jacob Pillar served the other penalty. 

The Wings killed the first part of the penalty with another 33 seconds leftover for the third. Another good chance in the period for the Wings when Pillar found a rebound pop out to the side of the net and he hacked away at it once, twice, three times before Kohonick could cover.

After two:

Weyburn 0 - 1 Notre Dame, shots 29-18

Piller returned to the ice once again, but that wasn't the end of the penalties. Two minutes in, Ben Hiltz got into it with Curtis Wiebe in front of the benches, they sat for two and caused some 4-on-4. That ended, and just under seven minutes in, Quinton Hill and Cody Lehner wrestled behind the net to earn themselves another 4-on-4 opportunity.

This time though, 4-on-4 caused something. Another penalty, this time to the home town hero in Schwean when he held a Hounds' player to the boards in the defensive zone and hauled him down for a 4-on-3.

On that 4-on-3, the Hounds scored once again. They tightened up the powerplay umbrella slowly on the Wings defenders with four seconds left in the 4-on-3 before Gabriel Leblanc took a shot from the point, and Sho Takai got the tip passed Young at 8:19 into the period.

Down two-nothing, Schwean returns to the ice, the 4-on-4 ends four seconds later, and the Wings start to press for the first goal and hopefully the equalizer after. Just over halfway into the frame, a large pile up formed along the wall at centre ice as the Red Wings tried to push the puck into the offensive zone with their skates. Rhett Frey was in the middle of the pile taking hard cross checks from either side thanks to Gabriel Leblanc and Olivier Lepine and he took acception. All three went to the box for cross checking after the melee.

Another Wings powerplay thanks to the extra minor, but again they couldn't get anything through Kohonick. There was five different faceoffs in the two minute powerplay because Kohonick refused to give up rebounds.

That opportnity ended and the Red Wings got Birnie back on the ice after serving his 10 minute misconduct. He got a chance on a 2-on-1 with Quinton Hill when Hill passed the puck from the left of the crease to the right, on the tape, and Birnie pulled the trigger. Flashes of Dominick Hasek flashed in everyone's eyes as Kohonick dove across the crease Superman-style and robbed Birnie with the glove.

Final two minutes, goalie pulled, and the Wings begin to have a hard time bringing it passed the blue line. They had a few more shots, one of which was blocked, and a race between Ryley Little and Jospeh Santalucia began for a puck at the Wings' blueline. Santalucia won and potted the empty netter.

FINAL SCORE:

Weyburn 0 - 3 Notre Dame, shots 42-27 Weyburn

12 seconds before the period ended, tensions finally boiled over between Nolan Corrado and Sebastian Eger and they dropped the gloves. Both threw heavy rights at one another until neither one could throw anymore and the refs seperated them. Even fight, both guys landing major hits, but Eger landed more quality shots, so the judges score card gives him the win.