The Red Deer Rebels playoff hopes came to an end Friday night with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Prince Albert Raiders at the Centrium.
The Rebels will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
Aiden Oiring was the OT hero for the Raiders scoring his third of the night late in the extra frame.
Oiring opened the scoring less then four minutes into the game on the power play beating Rebels goalie Peyton Shore.
The Rebels rebounded at the 8:59 mark when Jaxon Fuder put home his second goal in as many games.
Red Deer took the lead shortly after as Gleb Semenov crashed the crease for his second goal of the season.
Just over 90 seconds later Kalan Lind made it 3-1 when he took a Semenov pass and drove to the net for this 11th of the season.
The Raiders would tie things up before the end of the first on goals by Niall Crocker on the power play and Oiring with his second of the night short-handed.
It would stay tied at three until Oiring's hat trick goal gave the Raiders the overtime win.
Red Deer outshot Prince Albert 29-25 but went 0-for-5 on the power play while Prince Albert was 2-for-3 and also scored shorthanded.
Before the game, longtime Red Deer sports journalist Greg Meachem was posthumously recognized as the 2024-25 recipient of the WHL’s Bob Ridley Award for Media Excellence.
The Rebels are back in action Saturday night in Medicine Hat. Puck drop is at 7 p.m.
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