The Moose Jaw Warriors finished off their three-game Alberta road trip with their sixth straight win on Saturday night.

Led by two goals each from Jayden Halbgewachs and Justin Almeida, the Warriors skated to a 7-2 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings at Rogers Place to finish off their second straight three-game sweep of a Central Division road trip.

Halbgewachs’ two goals give him a WHL-leading 44 in 42 games, while WHL leading scorer Brayden Burke picked up three assists in the win to give him 83 points on the year.

The Warriors started quick in the win as five minutes into the game 20-year-old forward Tanner Jeannot rumbled down the Edmonton left boards and looked to play the puck cross ice for Tristin Langan on the right wing, but instead it went off of an Oil King defenceman and past the goalie for his 31st goal of the season.

The Warriors went up 2-0 while on the power play at 10:32, Burke skated around the Edmonton zone starting at the right boards and then made his way inside the left circle and delivered a beautiful pass to Halbgewachs on the right side of the net where he scored his 43rd goal of the season.

Within the final moments of the period, the Warriors got into penalty problems and the Oil Kings capitalized. Edmonton had 1:13 to work on a 5-on-3 power play and were able to snag a goal from Davis Koch and then still on the power play with 52 seconds left in the period, Ty Gerla had the puck go off his skate and past Brody Willms to tie the game at two.

Moose Jaw had one last rush up the ice where able to set up Jeannot for a one-timer within the right circle, the shot beat goalie Josh Dechaine and the referee had signalled goal, but the video goal judge looked at the play and had indicated that time had expired, so the teams went into the intermission tied at two.

The second period was tight as the teams fought for their ice and combined for just ten shots on net, 8-2 Moose Jaw.

With an eight minutes to go in the period, Jett Woo controlled inside the right circle and tossed the puck towards the net, where it bounced off of Luka Burzan and then hit the Edmonton post, as the puck sat inside the Edmonton crease Burzan quickly chopped it over the goal line for his sixth of the year to give the Warriors the lead.

Then with just over three minutes left in the period, Burke stripped the puck away from the Oil Kings behind their net, he came to the right goal line and made a pass to Almeida at the inside hash-marks where his quick shot beat Dechaine for his 23rd of the season, which gave Moose Jaw a 4-2 lead.

Just 2:14 into the third period, the Warriors went up by three when Burke dangled around the Edmonton zone and eventually found Almeida between the circles where he scored his second of the game.

In the back half of the third, the Oil Kings landed on the power play, but it was the Warriors who created offence.

Edmonton coughed the puck up high in the Moose Jaw zone which allowed Halbgewachs to chop it down the ice, the 20-year-old hustled down the ice and picked the puck to the Edmonton left boards, then cut across the front of the net, where he put a backhand over the pad of Dechaine for his league-leading 44th goal.

In the final four minutes of the game, the Warriors added a goal from Tate Popple which put the game out of reach.

Brody Willms made 16 saves in the win for Moose Jaw.

The Warriors were 1-for-4 on the power play and 5-for-7 on the penalty kill with a shorthanded goal.  Moose Jaw outshot Edmonton 18-9 in the final two periods and 32-18 overall.

The Warriors come out of their Alberta road trip with three wins and improved their overall record to 33-6-1-2 heading into next week. 

Moose Jaw returns to action on Wednesday when they battle the Calgary Hitmen at Mosaic Place.  Tickets are available online at mjwarriors.ca and at the Mosaic Place Box Office.

The 2018 WHL Trade Deadline is also on Wednesday at 4 p.m. (CST).