The Parkland Rangers swept a weekend doubleheader over the Kenora Thistles, this past weekend.

A 5-3 win on Saturday and an 8-4 victory on Sunday, has the Rangers on a three-game winning streak going into a pair of home games with the Winnipeg Wild, this weekend.

Rangers assistant coach Colton Robak said the coaching staff was pleased with the team’s play over the weekend.

“It’s a big four points going into next weekend and next weekend is going to be even bigger against the Wild. We know we can beat them,” he said.

Parkland built a 7-2 lead 20 seconds into the third period of Sunday’s game, but Kenora, now winless in 11 games this season, made a game of it with three in the period.

“At the end of the third, we weren’t completely happy with the way we played. There’s some teaching points,” Robak said.

The Rangers may have played down to Kenora’s level at times, but when teams get a big lead, they sometimes sit back a bit.

But the Rangers, Robak said are having fun on their current winning streak.

“It’s getting into the boys’ heads that you’ve got to keep playing with that tenacity. You got to keep playing with a lot of grit right to the very end. It’s 60 minutes in a game,” he said.

The focus going into the two games with the Wild this weekend is to build off the success of the two games against Kenora.

Parkland worked on a lot of systems against Kenora to solidify those systems.

“So that, going into those games against the Wild, we just have to play smart and play simple. That’s the biggest thing right now,” Robak said. “The boys are having fun and we’ll go into this week for some practice and work on some things.”

Saturday’s game against the Wild begins at 7:30 p.m., while Sunday’s meeting gets underway at 1:30 p.m.