Korczak's Four Point Night Can't Save Moose Jaw

Ryder Korczak (Moose Jaw Warriors)

The second star of the game Ryder Korczak tied a career-high with a four-point game but his Moose Jaw Warriors fell in overtime 5-4 to the Saskatoon Blades. It was Korczak's best game of the season as he was 2-2-4 on a team-high seven shots as he was a +1 and went 16-7 on his faceoffs.

After a scoreless first period, it would be Korczak who opened the scoring when he found a rebound right in front of the Saskatoon goal and put it into a wide-open goal for a 1-0 Moose Jaw lead at 5:11 of the second period. The goal was Korczak's ninth of the season and 29th point of the season.

Saskatoon would then score three unanswered goals before Moose Jaw would respond. Korczak would earn a secondary assist on Moose Jaw's second goal of the game, an even-strength goal at 15:04 of the second. 

The goal made it a 3-2 game in favor of Saskatoon. For Korczak, it was his 21st assist of the season and 30th point. Saskatoon would add another goal to end the second period with a 4-2 lead.

In the third, Korczak pulled his team to 4-3 when he put a shot "five-hole" on Saskatoon's goalie at 11:40 of the third period. His 10th goal of the season and 31st point.

Korczak would make it a four-point night when he was credited with a secondary assist on the game-tying goal at 18:34 of the third. It was Korczak's 22nd assist and 32nd point of the season. 

Korczak at 10-22-32 is 15th in WHL scoring and his 22 assists are 6th in the WHL. The game highlights can be found here.

Tayln Boyko (Tri-City)

It wasn't a picture-perfect game but Tayln Boyko stopped a personal three-game winless streak when his Kelowna Rockets edged the Victoria Royals 5-4 in overtime. Boyko stopped 43 out of 47 shots including 17 out of 18 in the third period when the Royals outshot the Rockets 18-3. 

If not for Boyko's third-period heroics the Rockets would have lost this game. Of the four goals that Boyko was charged with three came on the power play.

Boyko now is 7-10-0-1 with a 3.49 goals against and a 0.903 save percentage.

Matthew Rempe's first goal in 14 games (October 27, 2021) was the insurance goal as his Seattle Thunderbirds just ran over the Tri-City Americans 7-1. Coming 13 seconds after his team had gone ahead 2-1 on a power-play goal, Rempe picked up a loose puck and fired it at the Tri-City goal. 

The Tri-City goalie had stopped it at first but it just trickled between his legs and into the goal for Rempe's fifth goal of the season. Rempe was 1-0-1 on three shots with a +2 and was 9-7 on his faceoffs. 

The Seattle center improved to 5-2-7 on the season.

Simon Kjellberg and his Rensselaer Engineers dropped their second game on a four-game Alaska road trip 3-2 to the Alaska Nannooks. The Engineers should be embarrassed having lost two straight to a team that only had one win all season before this series. 

Kjellberg was scoreless on one shot on goal with a +2 and a minor for tripping. Rensselaer finishes their Alaska road trip and first half on Wednesday with another game against Alaska.