Sunday, March 15, 2009

Sudden-death in P.A.

The Edmonton Oil Kings and Prince Albert Raiders will play a play-in game Tuesday and they'll do it in P.A.
The Red Deer Rebels got two third-period goals from Carter Smith, giving him 20, and beat the Oil Kings 2-1 in Edmonton on Sunday afternoon.
The outcome means Edmonton, which lost 3-2 in Red Deer on Saturday night, and Prince Albert, a 5-4 loser in Saskatoon on Saturday, finished the 72-game regular season tied for eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
According to WHL rules and regulations, if teams tie for a final playoff berth a sudden-death game is to be played. The game will be played Tuesday in Prince Albert. Why P.A.? Because the Raiders finished with more victories than the Oil Kings (31-29).
Game time in the Art Hauser Centre will be 7:30 p.m.
The WHL has announced, too, that video review will be in force.
This will be the fourth such game in WHL history:
In 1980-81, the Spokane Flyers got past the New Westminster Bruins 10-9 in a game for fourth place in the West Division. (Spokane got swept by the Victoria Cougars in a first-round series.)
In 1983-84, the Calgary Wranglers went to overtime to beat the Saskatoon Blades 8-7 in a game that decided sixth place in the East Division. (Calgary got swept by the Regina Pats in the first round.)
In 1989-90, the Swift Current Broncos took out the Brandon Wheat Kings 5-4 in a game for sixth place in the East Division. (Swift Current bowed out of a best-of-five first-round series with Regina in four games.)
The winner of Tuesday's game gets into the playoffs and will meet the Calgary Hitmen in the first round. The Hitmen finished atop the WHL's overall standings.

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