The Weyburn Red Wings found when you are not playing to your abilities, you can skate, but you can't hide.

In four games this week, took a win from the South Division leading Melville Millionaires on the road, lost at home to the Flin Flon Bombers and lost in Lebret after leading going into the third period. And then there was the overtime loss in Estevan, which mirrored their previous overtime loss to the Bruins six weeks ago.

The Weyburn Red Wings renewed one of the SJHL's oldest rivalries on Sunday against the Estevan Bruins.

Estevan opened the scoring 32 seconds into the game when Tyson Schielke picked up a Red Wing giveaway and dribbled a shot through Terry Denike's legs.

Weyburn's Greg Garner tried to get the Red Wings into the game early by dropping the gloves with Bruin Brad Herauf. Both players scrapped for well over a minute, ending the fight in a draw.

Despite Garner's efforts, the Red Wings had only a few quality scoring chances in the first period all stopped by Bruin goaltender Trevor Frost.

Barely a minute into the second period, Estevan's Adam Saunders walked in on a Bruin two-on-one, and shot a puck over Denike's glove side to increase Estevan's lead to 2-0.

Weyburn got back in the game when Peter Hay scored Weyburn's first goal on the power play. But the momentum would not stay with Weyburn very long. Forty seconds later, Estevan's Reagan Lesue deflected Adam Saunders' shot past Denike for Estevan's third goal.

Despite Weyburn's two power-play opportunities in the second frame, Estevan had total control of the play in the second period, spending much of the period shooting at the Weyburn goal. One such example was Tyson Schielke's second goal of the night, scoring a short-handed goal on a breakaway caused by Sergei Sinicin's giveaway at the Estevan blue line for Estevan's fourth goal.

"We just forechecked the Bruins to save our resources for the third period," said Red Wing coach Dwight McMillan. "We didn't plan on getting down 4-1, but we did come back."

The momentum shifted in the third period when the Red Wings scored three unanswered goals to tie the score at four.

David Lapierre picked up the Wings' second goal when he grabbed a loose puck behind the Bruin net and put it over a sprawling Frost four minutes into the third period. That goal gave Weyburn some momentum, as Estevan's Prestin Ryan took an interference penalty soon after the ensuing faceoff.

Mike Costley picked up the Wing's third goal from Lapierre and Hay just shy of nine minutes into the third, flipping the puck past Frost on the power play.

"We had several chances to win the game late in the third when Jason Vermeulen had several chances to win it at the end," said McMillan. "He either hit the cross bar or hit Trevor Frost."

Alas, the comeback would stall there as the game remained a tie when the Bruin's Ryan picked up the rebound and skated the length of the ice. Ryan shot the puck between Denike's legs 20 seconds into overtime to win the game 5-4. Ten seconds before, Peter Hay walked in alone on Trevor Frost, but was poke-checked at the last minute by the Estevan goaltender.

"I just picked up Steven Reid's pass and put the puck through Denike's five-hole," said Prestin Ryan.

The goal was Ryan's second overtime goal against the Red Wings this season.

"Prestin Ryan is one of the most gifted offensive players and he is a defenseman," said Bruin assistant coach Brad Pierson.

Weyburn spent Friday night in Melville, beating the Millionaires 3-2 in a skating duel.

The Wings played the perfect road game by not taking unnecessary chances, but taking advantage of the ones which came their way. With goals from Mike Weisgerber, David Lapierre and Brian Kerr, the Wings never trailed in the game. Kerr's game-winning goal came while the Wings were short-handed.

Penalty killing was key in the Red Wing win, as was the goaltending tandem of Terry Denike and Mark Taylor.

With five minutes remaining in the second period and the penalty killing unit having spent much of the previous six minutes on the ice, McMillan pulled Denike, giving Mark Taylor some time between the pipes. Taylor did not disappoint, saving five of six point-blank scoring chances to come his way. In all, Red Wing goalies stopped 45 of 47 shots.

"I told our guys to take the pressure off themselves," said McMillan. "They were trying to win a championship every night. It's a big win for our club."

Flin Flon came to visit the Colosseum on Thursday night beating the Wings 4-1. But this game will be known more for scores settled from their previous game in Flin Flon.

In all, 42 minor penalties and seven major penalties were called in the contest, most being in the first two periods.

Assisted by poor officiating, the game got out of control with chippy play. Things calmed down in later periods, but not before SJHL referee-in-chief Wes Smith spoke to both coaches and the officiating crew during the first intermission.

"We played well, but with no rhythm," said McMillan. "We made bad passes from bad decisions. Give Flin Flon some credit, they moved the puck very well and prevented us from getting any pressure in the offensive zone."

Weyburn visited the Lebret Eagles on Nov. 16 in hopes of maintaining their six-game winning streak.

Things looked good after two periods with the Wings leading 4-2. But Lebret scored three unanswered goals in the third period to win the battle of the birds 5-4.

"We played an outstanding first period, then Lebret just took over the game," said McMillan.

Weyburn continues their schedule with a pair of home games on Friday, Nov. 26 against the Humboldt Broncos and Saturday, Nov. 27 against the Melville Millionaires.