Old Hand Comes Back To Slap Chiefs

Thu., Feb. 17, 2000

Chris Harper scored a goal and an assist against his former teammates Wednesday night to help the Prince Albert Raiders take a come-from-behind 4-1 Western Hockey League victory over the Spokane Chiefs.

Milan Kraft also contributed a goal and an assist and Michal Sivek added two helpers for the Raiders (23-29-4-5).

The victory enabled Prince Albert to move into a third-place tie with idle Regina (23-28-4-5) in the WHL East Division standings.

Spokane (35-17-3-2) has lost three of its last four and clings to a four-point lead over second-place Prince George (31-20-4-5) in the West Division. The Cougars claimed a 5-3 victory Wednesday night at Brandon.

Spokane opened the scoring at nine minutes, 32 seconds of the first period when Jeff Lucky took a board-deflected pass from Tim Krymusa, skated down the left wing and shot the puck between the pads of Raiders goalie Evan Lindsay.

But Jarrett Smith’s shot past Spokane’s Jason LaBarbera at 17:20 tied the score at 1.

Garrett Prosofsky scored the gamewinner for Prince Albert when he finished a 2-on-1 break with his 23rd goal at 8:06 of the second.

Kraft added an insurance goal at 18:09 of the second when he took a pass from Harper in the crease, waited for LaBarbera to commit, and played the puck into the empty net.

Harper, whom Spokane traded to Prince Albert for a draft pick earlier this season, rounded out the scoring with a slap shot past LaBarbera’s glove side at 12:57 of the third.

Spokane completes its four-games-in-five-nights road trip with stops in Red Deer on Friday and Central Division-leading Calgary on Saturday.

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