Three games in less than three days might have been too much for the Swift Current Broncos this week as they fell 7-3 in Brandon.

The Broncos were coming off hard fought wins in Medicine Hat on Friday and over Calgary on Saturday in the shootout. They then travelled overnight to Brandon before having to play an afternoon game against a rested Wheat Kings club.

“It was a tough one,” said Broncos associate coach Ryan Smith. “It was always going to be hard. At times we were good. At times we weren't.”

Smith felt their fatigue came in part as a result of leaning heavily on their top players all weekend.

“You need more guys than five or seven guys,” Smith said. “That's the facts. We need more guys to play better. We relied heavily on the same guys all three nights and they're running on fumes some of them. They still played well. The effort was there by most guys, but we just need more. It's the Western Hockey League it's not good enough to skate around. You have to accomplish something... we need a little bit more from some guys.”

Swift Current got behind the 8-ball early as Ty Lewis and Connor Gutenberg struck for a 2-0 Brandon lead. The Wheat Kings then got in penalty trouble and the Broncos took advantage with a Glenn Gawdin goal 5 on 3.

Tanner Kaspick was kicked out of the game midway through the first period for a head to the head of Tyler Steenbergen while the Broncos sniper was pinned to the boards by Kale Clague.

Conner Chaulk put in the rebound of a Colby Sissons point shot on the ensuing major power play and the Broncos tied the game up through twenty minutes of play.

Steenbergen returned to the game and scored with a spin around backhand on the rebound of a Noah King shot. It was Steenbergen's 31st of the season and the first career point for King.

Zack Wytink scored his first career goal for Brandon on a power play midway through the period before Brandon really turned the momentum of the game around with a Stelio Mattheos shorthanded goal. Cole Reinhart out-battled the Broncos for a loose puck behind their net on a Swift Current power play and created a scrum around their net that Mattheos finished.

The Broncos then hit two clean posts on shots by Steenbergen and Aleksi Heponiemi. Heponiemi had also hit the post earlier in the period on a shorthanded breakaway.

Lewis set up Evan Weinger shortly after the Broncos' power play expired and the Wheat Kings took control of the game.

“You hit a couple posts and you give up a shorthanded goal that is a turning point yeah,” Smith said. “You go from almost taking a lead to giving it up on the same power play and that really hurts.”

Brandon added two more in the third period to extend their winning streak to five games.

Logan Thompson made 38 saves for the Wheat Kings, while Logan Flodell took the loss for Swift Current with 29 saves on 36 Brandon shots.

Manny Viveiros was again absent from the Swift Current bench as he was away on a scouting trip this weekend.

The Broncos earned four of a possible six points in their busy weekend. They sit at 15-5-1-0 on the season and host Saskatoon on Wednesday.