The host team and the Manitoba champions are on the outside looking in and there is still one day of round robin play remaining at the 2017 Telus Cup West Regional “AAA” Midget Hockey Championship in Steinbach.

Both the Eastman Selects and Winnipeg Wild lost their second straight games Friday at the T.G. Smith Centre.

The Wild were shutout 3-0 by the Thunder Bay Kings while the Selects fell 4-1 to the Regina Pat Canadians.

The Kings and Pat Canadians both improved to 2-0.

"You give a team like that five power plays and they're going to make you pay," said Eastman head coach Dennis Senebald after their loss to the Saskatchewan champions. "Their two power play goals in the first period really hurt us tonight."

Randen Schmidt and Lukas Sillinger scored those first period goals for Regina.

Keigan Callender extended the Pat Canadians lead to 3-0 when he beat Selects goaltender Noah Morin four minutes into the second period.

Eastman forward Preston Seymour scored six minutes later.

"We started to get better in the second and third periods," said Seymour. "We started to pick it up a little. We did run into some penalty trouble and that pretty much cost us the game."

The Selects had a chance in the third.

Down by two goals, Eastman was the beneficiary of a six-minute power play with 8:11 remaining.

That turned into a five-on-three man advantage with 7:24 left but the Selects couldn't find a way to beat Regina netminder Dean McNabb who faced just 10 shots.

Preston Brodziak scored the final goal of the night at 18:08 for the Pat Canadians who will face Thunder Bay on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and then again in the championship game Sunday at 2 p.m.

Eastman and the Winnipeg Wild will play for Manitoba bragging rights in the round robin finale Saturday afternoon at 3:45 p.m.

"We had hoped we would be in the championship game on Sunday," said coach Senebald. "We know that's not going to happen. Unfortunately both Manitoba teams this year aren't going to have a shot at going to the Telus Cup but that's the way it goes sometimes. In games like this you really got to limit everything because teams are so good."