Rolling into Regina in sub-zero temperatures seemed only fitting as the Ice cooled the Regina Pats with a 3-2 OT decision on Wednesday night.

Not too shabby when you consider the team had a 28-hour bus ride to the Saskatchewan capital.

Sam Reinhart had a three-point night, scoring the game-winning goal on the man-advantage with a minute and a half to go in the extra frame.

The younger Reinhart also scored the goal that tied the game at two, and helped out on the team's opening marker from Brock Montgomery.

"Coming back late in the third, we really had the momentum going [into OT] and drew the penalty there and were able to capitalize on the powerplay," said Sam Reinhart. "Obviously, it's a great feeling and a needed win tonight."

Brother Max Reinhart also had a productive three-point affair, assisting on all three goals, and coming half an inch of scoring himself when he nailed the crossbar late in the third period.

Rookie Morgan Klimchuk was the go-to man for the Pats, scoring both goals for his club, as his efforts twice gave the Pats the lead.

Nathan Lieuwen made 21 stops, while is counterpart in Matt Hewitt on the other side of the arena turned away 23 shots.

The Ice were given the first powerplay and while they kept the Pats PK unit on their toes, they couldn't get a shot past Hewitt.

Joe Antilla was whistled down for interference, and Ismond got slapped with a tripping infraction, giving the Pats a two-man advantage for 56 seconds.

Klimchuk soon put Regina on the board on that Pats powerplay, banging a rebound into a wide-open net as Lieuwen tried cover his crease.

A few minutes later, it looked like the Pats had scored a second goal as the goal lamp lit up, but after review, the refs discerned that the puck only went off the crossbar.

Luke Scheidl was called for goaltender interference after running Lieuwen, but the Ice couldn't make anything work in the ensuing powerplay.

Colton Jobke got sent to the sin bin for highsticking, but all the shots that the Ice tried to put through seemed to be blocked by the Pats' penalty-killing unit.

Jobke nearly scored on a breakaway when he came out of the box after his penalty ended, but Lieuwen kicked out a pad to make the save.

Luke Fenske took two minor penalties within a few minutes of each other, and the struggling Ice powerplay finally capitalized, when Brock Montgomery wired a shot past Hewitt for his 13th goal of the season.

Montgomery's goal came on the fifth man-advantage for the Ice, as the team finally ironed out the wrinkles after getting stymied in their previous four opportunities.

"You got to be happy with the guys; again they stuck with it, kept doing the things you want them to do and not getting frustrated and deviating from that," said Ice assistant coach Todd Johnson.

However, the Pats pulled ahead roughly one minute later, when they took control of a faceoff in front of Lieuwen, and Klimchuk potted his second of the game.

Montgomery had a glorious chance to tie up the contest on a breakaway near the end of the period, but Pats' sniper Jordan Weal chased him down to stop a deke on Hewitt.

However, Montgomery did get in on the game-tying goal in the third period, when his shot rebounded right to Sam Reinhart, who found the back of the net for his first of the night.

The Ice had a few chances to pull ahead and take the lead; Antilla had a gaping net, but missed on a one-timer and Max Reinhart rang the iron, but the Ice couldn't bury one by the end of regulation.

The Pats also had chances of their own, near the end of the period, and Dylen McKinlay saved a sure goal when he back checked on an odd-man rush with a few minutes to go.

The Ice owned the third period, carrying most of the play by scoring the lone goal and pasting 10 shots on goal, while the Pats only responded with three.

"The third period, I thought we took the game over and every line was going," said Johnson. "All the guys were going, you got to be extremely happy, especially after sitting on the bus as long as we did."

McKinlay made another big play in the overtime frame when he drew a tripping penalty in the offensive zone that led to the game-winning goal.

"I wasn't expecting it to get called, but obviously it did," said McKinlay. "I was just trying to move my feet, trying to get to the net there, thought I had a lane to the net and he did haul me down."

To fight for the game-winning goal, the Ice coaches sent out the two Reinharts, along with Jesse Ismond and Joey Leach. The four had some chances in the first minute or so, before Ice head coach Kris Knoblauch called a timeout with 37 seconds left in the powerplay.

It looked like Knoblauch was going to turn the lines over after the team clustered around Johnson, but the same foursome went back out and promptly scored when Sam redirected Max's cross-ice pass on the back doorstep.

"I just reminded them of what we wanted to do, and the guys who were out there executed so it was fortunate for us that it worked out so well," said Johnson.

The win gives the Ice much-needed points in the tight standings race in the Eastern Conference; the Ice are two behind the Warriors and the Medicine Hat Tigers only lag by one. The top six teams in the same conference are divided by a spread of 10 points.

The Warriors are next up on the schedule and the Ice will challenge them in Moose Jaw on Friday night.

Hitting the road to Moose Jaw should be a lot easier than what the team experienced in their adventure to Regina. The bus tried to wait out a snowstorm in Sparwood and ended up staying Monday night, only to backtrack to Cranbrook on Tuesday and take the long way into the prairies through Kootenay National Park.