Bandits get second straight shutout, 14th straight win beating Drayton Valley
DRAYTON VALLEY, AB – Pierce Charleson (Aurora, ON) ran his record to 13-0 with his league-leading third shutout, as the Brooks Bandits (14-1) got goals from five different scorers in a 5-0 road win over the Drayton Valley Thunder on Friday night.
The win extended the Bandits’ streak to 14 consecutive victories, four points up on Drumheller for first in the AJHL South with a game in hand, and two points back of Bonnyville for first overall with three games in hand.
Brooks got the game-winning goal on the opening shift, just 21 seconds in, when Taylor Makar (Calgary, AB) centered one off the rush to Mack Hancock (Kingston, ON) in the slot, who wristed home his seventh of the year and extended his point streak to six games.
Despite outshooting the Thunder 19-8 in the period, the Bandits didn’t convert again until the final two minutes of the frame. First, on the team’s first power play of the game, Hancock missed the net on a one-timer but banked the puck off the end wall to Ryan Mahshie (Stoney Creek, ON) at the left side of the net; he chipped it home from a sharp angle for his team-leading fourth power play goal and a 2-0 Brooks lead.