PRINCE ALBERT -- The Prince Albert Raiders are off to the second round of the Western Hockey League playoffs.
Lukas Dragicevic had a four-point game and Max Hildebrand stopped all 30 shots he faced as the Raiders took a 5-0 victory over the Edmonton Oil Kings in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference quarter-final series on Tuesday night in Prince Albert.
As a result, the Raiders win the series four-games-to-three after facing a three-games-to-one deficit and will now take on the Medicine Hat Tigers in the second round.
Prince Albert got off to a good start and never looked back, beginning with Aiden Oiring scoring his sixth goal of the series at the 7:40 mark of the first period and Ty Muenier making it 2-0 with 6:17 to play in the opening frame.
Dragicevic got on the board with the lone goal of the second period with 1:28 gone before the Raiders’ power play went to work in the third, with Niall Crocker extending the lead at 10:44 and Rilen Kovacevic capping scoring with 5:31 remaining in regulation.
Kovacevic, Oiring and Daxon Rudolph all had two points on the night.
Ethan Simcoe stopped 18 shots in the Oil Kings net.
A sell-out crowd of 3,293 took in the contest at the Art Hauser Centre.
The Raiders now advance the Eastern Conference regular season champion Tigers in the second round of the playoffs, with dates for that series to be announced shortly.
