It was the final game of his career and that of his close friend Nolan Ritchie, who are both graduating out of major junior. Brandon made it a two-goal game again when Anderson was sent in on a breakaway up the middle on a terrific stretch pass by Elick and the graduating overager fired a shot past Beaupit’s glove for the 27th goal of his career and 16th of the season. Geekie extended the lead on a sensational play four minutes into the middle frame when he pushed the puck wide past Logen Hammett in the neutral zone and then cut hard to the net, beating Charlie Elick in front of the net before sending a shot past Jones.īrandon finally got on the board 85 seconds later when Luke Shipley carried the puck into the Winnipeg zone, passed it over to Joby Baumuller and his shot rebounded off Winnipeg goalie Mason Beaupit’s pad to Roersma, who buried it for his 19th goal of the season.īut just 19 seconds later, McClennon beat Brandon’s Eastyn Mannix wide and scored on a wrap-around to restore the three-goal lead. It was a career high 33rd goal of the season for the Strathclair product. Winnipeg dominated the early going and scored on their fourth shot when McClennon gathered up his own rebound and deposited it behind Brandon goalie Nick Jones.Īfter Brandon finally got its first shot on net 6:38 into the opening frame, Winnipeg rushed back down the ice and Geekie, who was the trailer on the play, snapped a shot into the top corner to give the hosts an early 2-0 lead. “We made a little push in the third and got in a little penalty trouble at the end, which was unfortunate, and we just couldn’t finish the comeback.” After we settled in, I thought we had a pretty good second period, and even though we tied 2-2, I thought we did some good things and generated some more opportunities. “Unfortunately, we were a little flat and got behind 2-0. “Last night’s first period we had a lot of energy and a lot of fire in our game and we were hoping to repeat that first period,” Murray said.

They won all 10 meetings this season and the last five of the 2021-22 campaign.Ĭonor Geekie had a hat trick and an assist and Connor McClennon scored twice for Winnipeg (57-10-1-0), with Rylen Roersma, Calder Anderson and Roger McQueen replying for Brandon (26-33-8-1) in front of a crowd of 1,819.īrandon head coach and general manager Marty Murray said his club, which finished 10th in the 12-team Eastern Conference, was looking for a similar start to the one in a 3-2 shootout loss to Winnipeg on Friday when they outshot the Ice 19-8. The victory extended Winnipeg’s winning streak over Brandon to 15 games extending back to Feb. The Winnipeg Ice put an exclamation mark on a dominant stretch against the Brandon Wheat Kings on Saturday, beating the visitors 5-3 in Western Hockey League action at Wayne Fleming Arena on Saturday in the season finale for both clubs.

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