For 12 straight games, the Moose Jaw Warriors were able to do whatever it took to pick up a point, but that wasn’t the case on Friday night.

The Kamloops Blazers put together an impressive road game to skate to a 5-2 win over the Warriors at Mosaic Place, snapping Moose Jaw’s six-game winning streak and 12-game point streak.

“We shot ourselves in the foot, probably the worst game we played in game 34, so pretty bad for us to come out that way, especially with a couple games left till the break,” said forward Brayden Burke. “Pretty disappointed in that room, but it is what it is, you can only move forward and look to a big one tomorrow.”

It’s been an outstanding first half for the Warriors, but Burke felt the team learned a valuable lesson with this loss.

“We’ve got to get a lot better in that room, starting from the older guys, myself included, we were real bad tonight,” said Burke. “We didn’t break one puck out clean tonight, defence weren’t getting to pucks, forwards weren’t getting back to help them and when you have that, that’s a pretty big recipe for disaster and we got what we deserved tonight.”

Burke and Tanner Jeannot scored in the loss for the Warriors, who were held to just 17 shots in the game, including just eight over the final 40 minutes.

The Warriors weren’t able to respond to a strong fore-check from the Blazers throughout the game.

“If we can focus and come into the rink with the right attitude, we should never have these games, we’re the top team, we should be coming into every game thinking we want to win and show what we are, but when we come out like that, I don’t think we’re going to beat anyone in this league,” said Burke.

Brodi Stuart scored 4:13 into the game when jumped on a turnover and drove the net to pick up the game’s first goal. Moose Jaw responded just over two minutes later when Jeannot tipped an Oleg Sosunov point shot in for his 25th of the season.

Kamloops took the lead back, at 12:22, when Luc Smith scored on the power play and then they went up by two, at 16:13, when Carson Denomie slid the puck between the pads of Adam Evanoff from the right goal line.

In the final minute of the first period, the Warriors clawed back to within one. Justin Almeida chipped the puck up the ice for Jeannot, who then fought through a Blazers check on the left wing and set up Burke for a one-timer inside the right circle for his 15th goal of the year.

After a scoreless second period, the Warriors went into the third still down by one, but in the final frame they weren’t able to manage many opportunities.

Kamloops outshot the Warriors 24-8 in the final two periods and 35-17 overall.  The Blazers added two goals in the third from Jermaine Loewen, with one being an empty net goal, and went on to hand Moose Jaw a 5-2 loss.

Evanoff made 30 saves in the loss. Moose Jaw was 0-for-1 on the power play and 1-for-2 on the penalty kill.

The loss was the Warriors’ first regulation loss since Nov. 5.

Moose Jaw is back in action on Saturday when they close out their pre-Christmas schedule at home with their first meeting of the season against the Brandon Wheat Kings.  Tickets are available online at mjwarriors.com or at the Mosaic Place Box Office.

Catch all the action on Country 100 starting with the Westrum Lumber Timber Mart Pre-Game Show at 6:40 p.m.