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Game 24: December 1 vs. Victoria

December 1, 2015 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
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@ ROYALS: Tonight marks the first of two meetings between the Royals and Tigers both at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre this season. Last season the Tigers won both meetings including an 8-2 victory at The Arena in October of 2014. Chad Butcher led the way against the Royals last year recording 4 points in 2 games, meanwhile Ty Schultz had 3 points including his first career WHL goal at the Save-On-Food Memorial Centre in January.

TONIGHT'S MATCHUP:

Victoria is coming off a victory against the streaking Kelowna Rockets in their last game, snapping the defending WHL Champions 11 game unbeaten streak with the 5-1 victory

Medicine Hat is tied with the Kootenay ice for the lowest win total on the road, the Ice have a 1-10-0-0 record while the Tigers have just one victory in 8 opportunities (1-5-2-0)

The Tigers come into tonight's game having lost their last 3 games and only picking up 2 victories in their past 10 games (2-7-1-0)

2015-16 WHL RANKINGS: Record (7-13-2-1). Central Div. - 5th Eastern Con. - 11th Home - (6-8-0-1) Away (1-5-2-0)

TIGERS FAST FACTS:

Chad Butcher picked up an two points vs. Brandon Saturday and extended his point streak to 9 games, recording 4 goals and 9 assists over that span and has now has the longest point streak for the Tigers, breaking Steven Owre's 8 game streak earlier in the year. Butcher is also tied for the current longest point streak in the WHL with Everett's Remi Laurencelle

Medicine Hat has just 1 power play goal away from the Canalta Centre this season in 38 opportunities (2.8%)

FIRST PERIOD: The Victoria Royals have scored 93 goals on the season and have given up the WHL's second lowest goals against with 62. The key to the Royals success this season has been getting the early lead. This season Victoria has a record of 10-3-1-0 when leading after the opening frame. Medicine Hat has given up 32 first period goals compared to scoring just 18 times and sits with a record of 3-9-1-1 when trailing after the opening frame. Victoria also has been in seven 3 goal games this season, winning each one of those games. The key on this road trip will be to limit the damage in the first period for the orange and black.

RACKING THE KILOMETERS: For the Medicine Hat Tigers the next stretch of games in the month of December are on the road, 10 to be exact kicking off tonight against the Royals. The Tigers kick off a 4 game in 5 night stretch, a grueling grind for any hockey player and it sees lots of hours on the bus and many late nights. After Victoria, the Tabbies have a date with last year's scoring leader and former Tiger Trevor Cox and the Vancouver Giants before heading over to Kelowna and Kamloops. The rest of the month sees the Central Division getting a work through as a home and home with the Red Deer Rebels awaits Medicine Hat when they return from their British Columbia trip. Following the Rebels matchup, the Tigers play a bizarre three straight games against the Edmonton Oil Kings, once at home for the annual Teddy Bear Toss and twice on the road, finishing with yet another home and home against the Calgary Hitmen before the Christmas break.

TEDDY BEAR TOSS: The Tigers annual Teddy Bear Toss presented by the Medicine Hat News occurs on Saturday December 12th against the Edmonton Oil Kings. Fans are encouraged to bring their stuffed animals along with winter jackets, socks, toques, mittens and scarves to help the Medicine Hat Women's Shelter, Salvation Army and the Pediatric Ward of the Regional Hospital.

2015-16 CLUB LEADERS:

Goals (11) Max Gerlach   Assists (19) Chad Butcher   Points (28) Chad Butcher

PIM (54) Connor Clouston   Plus/Minus (+3) Connor Clouston, Clayton Kirichenko Wins (4) Nick Schneider

SPECIAL TEAMS:

POWER PLAY: 16/104 - 15.4% (ranked 18th in WHL)

AWAY - 1/38 - 2.8% (ranked 22nd in WHL)

PENALTY KILL: 73/99 - 72.7% (ranked 22nd in WHL)

AWAY - 32/42 - 76.2% (ranked 15th in WHL)

TIGERS ROSTER MAKEUP: The Tigers currently have 22 players on the roster - 2 Goaltenders, 7 Defenseman, 13 forwards

AGE BREAKDOWN: 3 - 20 year olds, 5 - 19 year olds, 7 - 18 year olds, 5 - 17 year olds, and 2 - 16 year olds

NHL DRAFTED / SIGNED PLAYERS: Matt Bradley (Montreal Canadiens), Nick Schneider (Calgary Flames)

ATB FINANCIAL - TIGERS BROADCAST:Listen to legendary Bob Ridley broadcast all Tigers games on CHAT 94.5 FM. Bob Ridley has called all but one Tigers' Game in Team history since the Medicine Hat Tigers came into the league in 1970.

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