Wheat Kings Lose in Conference Final
The Brandon Wheat Kings and Toni Rajala were eliminated from the WHL playoffs last night when they lost 6-1 to the Calgary Hitmen in Game 5 of their best-of-seven series. Rajala had 2 goals and 1 assist along with a -6 (+2 -8) rating in the series. Rajala was -1 or worse in each of the five games and scored only one of his points at even strength. That brings Rajala's playoff totals to 4 goals and 3 assists and a -8 rating in 15 games or as my niece would say, "Yucky."
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Speaking of yucky, Rajala took a penalty late in the first that became essentially the nail in the coffin. The Wheaties were down 1-0 and had gotten a power-play with 2:03 to go. Off the faceoff, he gets his stick up on a Hitmen player and off he goes. Seconds into the four-on-four, Misha Fisenko scored to make it 2-0. Rajala’s penalty carried forward into the second period by 14 seconds; at the 0:15 mark, Brandon Kozun put home his first of two on the night to make it 3-0. (As well as two goals scored with a guy having one foot still in the box: Joel Broda’s opening goal was an almost-shortie scored a couple of seconds after a Hitmen penalty expired).
From down 1-0 with a chance to tie to down 3-0 in 2:18 of game time. Game, set, match. From there, it was all over but the misconducts to Brandon’s co-captains (and an attempted decapitation of Hitmen co-captain Ian Schultz, who’s become a premiere two-way forward in the WHL this year).
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