Andrew Schaab (facing) celebrates his shootout goal Friday night but it wasn’t enough in loss to Kindersley in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League action in Nipawin.

By Clark Stork

Klippers ground Hawks in shootout

Oct 23, 2021 | 4:22 PM

The Hawks were back in action Friday night playing host to Kindersley with the Klippers edging Nipawin 4-3.

Back in action for the first time in five days, Nipawin was in search of their second straight win.

The hometown Hawks opened the scoring halfway through the first period, Brody Wilson jammed a rebound past Matthew Pesenti on a Nipawin powerplay for his third goal of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) season. The lead was short-lived, just 1:43 later Tylin Hilbig scored his fourth of the year and first of the night for Kinderdsley tying the game at 1-1 after the first period.

The offense was idle until the third period, Hilbig added is second just a minute into the period, Christian Albertson scored his team-leading sixth for the Hawks making it 2-2. Rylan Lefebvre gave Nipawin the lead with just over eight minutes left but Logan Linklater tied the game with just over 30 seconds left in regulation with Pesenti on the bench for the extra attacker.

Neither club could score overtime, Andrew Schaab scored the lone Nipawin goal in a four-round shootout, Aidan Bangs and Noah Lindsay beat Chase Hamm for the Klippers giving them the win. Head Coach Doug Johnson was happy with the Hawks’ effort and felt the game could have easily gone the other way.

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“I liked our game, I thought we played a good game and thought we deserved a better fate,” he said on the Murray Dunn GM postgame show on Saskatchewan’s new Beach Radio.

Hamm was coming off a 38 save shutout in Notre Dame on Sunday, he allowed three goals on 23 shots through regulation and overtime. Pesenti turned aside 24 Nipawin shots in the win.

The teams meet again in Kindersley Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. Johnson said the team is confident heading into the West Central Events Centre to cap a positive two-game weekend.

“That’s our goal, if we can get three out of four points every weekend, a .750 winning percentage, I think we’d be okay, that should get us into the playoffs,” he added.

The game will not be broadcast on the radio due to the Riders game versus the Stampeders. The next Nipawin RONA Hawks Hockey broadcast will be Tuesday when the Hawks travel to Melville to meet the Millionaires.

by Clark Stork

Klippers ground Hawks in shootout

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