The Ridge Meadows Flames lost a pair of weekend games in Pacific Junior Hockey League action.
They lost to the Mission City Outlaws 3-1 on Friday night, and to the Port Moody Panthers 4-3 on Saturday.
The Friday game was scoreless after the first period, and tied 1-1 after two. Ethan Kitsch, a rookie from Maple Ridge, got his fourth goal of the season, set up by Eric Bourhill.
The difference in the game was the Outlaws struck once in seven power plays, midway through the third period, while the Flames were scoreless in their seven.
Mission got an empty netter with two seconds left.
On Saturday the Flames outshot the Port Moody Panthers 43-26, but lost 4-3.
They were up against former Ridge Meadows Rustlers goaltender Matthew Trulsen, who was traded to the Panthers from Mission at the trade deadline.
Traded players figured prominently, as former Panther Cameron Judson, whom the Flames acquired from Port Moody at the deadline, got his first two goals in three games as a Flame against his old team. Bourhill also scored.
Former Flame Ayden Power, a rookie the Flames sent the other way in the trade for Judson, also scored his first two as a Panther. He had one goal in 31 games with Flames, but was the game’s first star on Saturday. Judson was the second star.
Port Moody led most of the way, carrying a 3-0 lead at the midpoint of the contest, before the Flames tied it up.
Then, with 22 seconds left before overtime, the Panthers got the game winner.
With the losses, the Flames drop to 17-17-1-3 on the season, in the eighth and final playoff spot in the league.