Pats’ special bobblehead night interrupted

Ice plant issues at the Brandt Centre forced the cancellation of the Regina Pats’ game Friday against the Swift Current Broncos.

The ice was deemed to be unplayable, so the game is to be rescheduled. All tickets will be redeemable for the later date.

The cancellation came on the night when former Pats captain Colten Teubert was to return to the WHL team — at least in bobblehead form.

Fans could get a Teubert bobblehead with a $5 donation to the Westridge Construction Charity.

Some of the bobbleheads had been sold before the game was cancelled. Those that weren’t sold are to be available at the Pats’ next home game, Nov. 16 against the Prince Albert Raiders.

Earlier Friday, Teubert said he was shocked that he was being honoured with a bobblehead.

The Colten Teubert bobblehead that was to be available from the Regina Pats on Nov. 8, 2019. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)

“(I’m) just very humbled and appreciative and I think it sums up my career — a little bit of a bobblehead career — but (I’m) just really happy to be back in Regina,” the 29-year-old said.

Teubert played for the Pats from 2006 to 2010 and recorded 113 points (32 goals, 81 assists) in 263 regular-season games. He also picked up seven points in 10 career playoff games. He was named the team’s captain in his final season.

Teubert said Regina was where he did a lot growing up on and off the ice.

“Just growing into becoming a man, learning from my mistakes, getting to know a lot of guys, a really tight-knit group that we had. Some of those guys were my best men at my wedding and (I) just created a second home here,” Teubert said.

Teubert also played on the international stage, playing with Canada at the 2009 and 2010 world junior championships, winning a gold medal in 2009.

“I remember sitting on the bench and thinking, ‘Aw man, we let Canada down, we’re going to lose this game versus Russia,’ and with 5.4 seconds left Jordan Eberle (scored). It still gives me tingles down my neck,” Teubert said.

Teubert was taken 13th overall in the 2008 NHL draft by the Los Angeles Kings. He didn’t play an NHL game for the Kings before being traded to the Edmonton Oilers in 2011.

Colten Teubert. (File photo courtesy of the Regina Pats)

He played in 24 games with the Oilers during the 2011-12 season, recording one assist. After a couple of years in the American Hockey League with the Oklahoma City Barons, he joined the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), playing with the Iserlohn Roosters and Nürnberg Ice Tigers.

Teubert is now in his first season as the head coach of the Bellingham Blazers in the Western States Hockey League.

He said his time in junior hockey went by like a whirlwind.

“Everybody always tells you, ‘Your junior career will be over and you’ll miss it,’ and now it’s over and I miss it,” Teubert said. “I wish I could go back and walk down those stairs (to the lower level of the Brandt Centre); we used to load the bus down those stairs.

“As a rookie you picked the pucks up. It looked a lot different down here. (It) smells good in here now. Agribition isn’t here right now.

“I’m just happy to be back, put the Pats logo on and represent what this storied franchise is all about — developing human beings and good hockey players and I think they did a good job with me.”

The Pats’ next game is set for Saturday in Winnipeg against the Ice.