Estevan Bruins fans got to throw their teddy bears and leave happy on Saturday, November 18 as the hometown squad earned a 6-3 victory over the Humboldt Broncos.

Arthur Miller scored the opening two goals and Jake Fletcher scored the winner on the power play to give the Bruins a win heading into their five-day, four-game road trip coming up this week, Kaelan Holt and TJ Irey also scored and Max Sidelnik turned aside 37 shots. 

"At the end of the day I don't think there was a lot of difference in our effort," said Bruins head coach and GM Chris Lewgood, referring to their loss to Battlefords the day before. "I think we eliminated some of the big mistakes we had last night and that's the difference between winning and losing."

The Broncos jumped out to an early lead on a power play goal by Stephen Wack, but before the first period was out Estevan had given their fans a chance to toss their teddys. Arthur Miller cut to the net and banged away on the doorstep, refusing to be denied and slipping one in to let the thrilled hometown crowd let fly.

"I was pretty excited," said Miller. "It wasn't just a teddy bear toss goal it was also to tie it up. The boys were feeling it and the crowd wanted it so it was good."

Miller's goal in the second period looked a lot different, as he took a feed in the slot from Zach Goberis and ripped one high blocker on Sam-Jaxon Visscher to give the Bruins a lead they never surrendered.

"That goal doesn't happen without Goby," Miller said of linemate Goberis. "He's always setting me up, him and Chez (Michael McChesney, who had an assist on Miller's first goal) and those guys see the ice so well. Without him, that puck's not going in the net."

Plenty of pucks went in the net for Estevan tonight, including a truly bizarre goal by TJ Irey to give the Bruins a two-goal lead. Irey drifted a shot on net from the left point, a turnaround shot as he attempted to throw the puck on net, which bounced about five feet in front of Visscher and went top corner.

Humboldt's Jaxon Joseph got the Broncos back to within one early in the third, but that wouldn't last long as Fletcher tapped home the rebound of Jake Heerspink one-timer on the power play to give Estevan the two-goal lead back.

Again the Broncos got back within one as Wack rifled one in from the line, but this was close as they got. Kaelan Holt toe-dragged the puck into the slot from behind the net and fired a backhand through the five-hole to restore Estevan's two-goal lead, and Davis salted the game away with an empty netter. 

The Bruins move to 15-7-2 with the win and will next be on the road against Nipawin on Tuesday, November 21. You can catch that game and the following three games on Rock 106.

GAME NOTES:

This was the first meeting of the two teams this season. Both the Bruins and Broncos are second in their respective divisions, with Estevan tied with Weyburn in points but trailing by one on goal differential. 

Michael McChesney picked up an assist for the second straight game. His linemate, Zach Goberis, broke a modest one-game scoring drought to pick up his 40th point of the year. 

Austin King-Cunningham picked up his first point in a Bruins sweater with a second assist on Holt's goal. 

Kalean Holt now has a four-game goal streak, over which he has scored five times. He is tied with McChesney for second in team goal scoring with 13. 

Michael McChensey and Jake Fletcher became the second and third Bruins to break 30 points this year. Hayden Guilderson and Kaelan Holt are at 29. Guilderson has points in every game in November but the Remembrance Day game La Ronge.