After Friday’s victory over the Kamloops Blazers, just one question remains: who is going to buy Brock Cripps dinner?
The matter was a brief subject of discussion after the Prince Albert Raiders dispatched the visiting Blazers 5-2 for their fifth straight win on Friday.
With the Raiders up by three late in the second, Cripps pulled the puck off the goal line not once, but twice. The play was so good it not only drew a round of applause from the Art Hauser Centre crowd, the Raiders even replayed it on the jumbotron as the Save of the Night.
“It’s definitely something I haven’t done yet in my hockey career,” a smiling Cripps said when asked about receiving such a rare distinction for a non-goaltender. “It was just nice to save the puck on the goal line and not let that one in. It was good