It’s not quite a Heritage moment, but it’s something you almost never see.
The Carstar Okotoks Bisons (25-5-1) saw their 13-game winning streak snapped with a pair of divisional losses to see their lead atop the Heritage Junior Hockey League South Division standings shrink.
Last Friday, the Cochrane Generals skated to their first win in Okotoks since 2021 in a 3-2 triumph over the herd.
Okotoks soundly out-shot the visitors with Generals netminder Isaias Maddigan standing tall in a 49-save performance. Zephyr Laplante and Adam Kirkpatrick scored for Okotoks.
The loss was Okotoks’ first on home ice since the opening weekend of the regular season in September.
On the road, the herd were blanked 3-0 by the Medicine Hat Cubs on Sunday with veteran netminder Tyler Wakelam posting a 29-save shutout.
Okotoks had won 13 straight and had not lost in regulation since October prior to the weekend.
The three-time defending HJHL champions have a one-point lead on the Agra Risk Wheatland Kings with two games in hand and are four points north of Medicine Hat.
The Bisons, who’ve only lost twice at home all season, will look to get back in the win column on Friday, Jan. 24 when the Airdrie Thunder roll into the Murray Arena at 8 p.m. Okotoks is in Coaldale the following night to close the weekend.
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