The fourth win in a playoff series is always the hardest to get and the Moose Jaw Warriors found that out on Saturday night at Mosaic Place.

The Warriors came out flat right from the opening puck drop and lost 5-1 to a hungry Prince Albert Raiders team in game five of their first round playoffs series. 

The win allowed Prince Albert to stave off elimination and shift the series back up to the Art Hauser Centre for game six coming up on Sunday night.

"When you want to win in the playoffs against a team that's as desperate as they are to stay in the series, you need everyone to step up and play their role, and that didn't happen tonight," said Warriors forward Brayden Burke.

"Some guys didn't do the things that they did in P.A. to win hockey games, get pucks out, get pucks in and keep them in the zone, so when guys aren't doing the right things, you're not going to win many games in playoffs."

Facing elimination, the Raiders came out and played a desperate style of hockey that got them the rewards that they were looking for. The Warriors just couldn't find a way to match the effort that the Raiders brought to the ice at Mosaic Place.

"We didn't have a sense of urgency and that's what they had," said Warriors head coach Tim Hunter. "We weren't urgent and weren't ready to play and I warned them about that. We had to match that urgent hockey, intense, desperate feeling and we didn't have it.

"We didn't win any battles early, made a couple of mistakes, guys getting out of the way of shots, those things, there's a term 'do whatever it takes to win a hockey game' and we paid a little bit of lip service to it tonight and didn't dig in and do what it really means."

A sold-out crowd of 4,683 showed up to see the Warriors attempt to advance into the second round of the playoffs for the second time in three years, but the Raiders had different plans.

Sean Montgomery opened the scoring when he capitalized on a turnover inside the Warriors' zone and snapped a puck past Warriors goalie Brody Willms with 10:56 gone in the first period.

On a similar play with the Warriors turning the puck over the defensive zone, Parker Kelly tipped in a long shot by Brayden Pachel with 1:53 to go in the first to make it 2-0 after one.

"This building can get rocking, the fans are pretty good here, so it was a big advantage for us to quiet them down early," said Montgomery after the game.

The Warriors came out in the second needing the next goal to get some momentum back on their side, but Max Martin's point shot found the back of the net on a Raiders' power play to make it 3-0.

Moose Jaw was able to respond only 58 seconds after that when Burke found Justin Almeida in the slot and he buried his third of the series to make it a two-goal game going into the third period.

There was no magic like game three of the Warriors this time around as Montgomery scored his second of the game just 4:15 into the final frame and Raiders captain Curtis Miske sealed the win with 8:59 to go with his second of the playoffs.

"Our backs were against the wall and we wanted to come out here and do our best and it worked," said Montgomery, who has three goals in the series.

The Warriors had a four-minute power play early in the game and couldn't convert as they finished 0-for-4 on the power play, while the Raiders went 2-for-6 with the man advantage. Raiders goalie Ian Scott turned away 31 shots in the win. Willms stopped 17 shots and was replaced by Adam Evanoff with 8:58 left in regulation.

The series will now shift back up to Northern Saskatchewan for game six on Sunday. The Warriors are looking to erase Saturday's effort from their mind quickly and put together a bounce back effort on the road.

"If we can play the way that we did in games three and four and work hard and do the right things, we'll be alright and finish the series, but we've got to get some desperation in our game and we've got to start doing the right things," said Burke.

The Warriors and Raiders will face-off at 6 p.m. Sunday night at the Art Hauser Centre. The Pre-Game Show will be on the air at 5:40 p.m. on Country 100.