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WHL Medicine Hat Tigers

Game 38: January 2 vs. Edmonton

January 2, 2016 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Medicine Hat Tigers News Release


VS. OIL KINGS: Tonight will mark the first meeting since the Tigers took three straight games vs. Edmonton in middle of December. Tonight also marks the first game at the Canalta Centre in the new calendar year. Medicine Hat has three players who have scored 4 points in the 3 games against the Oil Kings this season, Matt Bradley, Cole Sanford and David Quenneville. Meanwhile Nick Schneider has 2 victories against Edmonton, allowing only 2 goals in each of his 2 starts.

TONIGHT'S MATCHUP:

Medicine Hat is coming off of a 6-2 victory on New Year's Eve against the Moose Jaw Warriors, putting the Tigers just 4 points back of the Oil Kings for the final playoff spot

Tigers forward Matt Bradley has points in 7 of his last 8 games, including a 4 game goal scoring streak. Over the 8 games Bradley has recorded (6G, 4A)

Max Gerlach leads the entire WHL with 11 power play goals and also leads all rookies with 21 goals on the season, his 31 points puts him 5th in WHL rookie scoring

2015-16 WHL RANKINGS: Record (13-20-3-1). Central Div. - 5th Eastern Con. - 9th Home - (7-10-1-1) Away (6-10-2-0)

TIGERS FAST FACTS:

Edmonton's Brett Pollock and Dysin Mayo are the only Oil Kings skaters riding a point streak as of tonight, Pollock has a 5 game streak scoring 8 points in that span while Mayo has 7 points on his 5 game streak

Since losing the 3 straight games to the Tigers in early December, Edmonton has gone 3-1-1-0 while beating some of the Eastern Conference's top teams in Red Deer and just last night Brandon

Tigers forward Max Gerlach scored his 20th goal of the season Sunday, marking the most for a US born rookie Tiger player since Emerson Etem in 2009-2010

ON THIS DATE IN TIGERS HISTORY: The Medicine Hat Tigers took on the Brandon Wheat Kings on January 2nd, 2000 at the Medicine Hat Arena in front of 2521 spectators, falling 6-4. Medicine Hat had 4 different goal scorers in Denny Johnston, Ken Davis, Kevin Labbe and Berkeley Buchko.

BRADLEY ON FIRE: Matt Bradley's season had a turnaround during the BC road trip. Bradley has been on a tear to not only end the first half but start the second half. In the month of December leading to the Holiday break, Bradley had recorded 9 points in 11 games and since coming back from the break has netted a goal in all 3 games, extending his point streak to 4 games.

MILESTONES APPROACHING: The Tigers have some milestones approaching over the next few weeks; take a look at who's close to reaching a big moment in their WHL career:

Chad Butcher needs 2 games to reach 200 in his career and will become the 80th player in franchise history to do so

Mark Rassell needs 3 games to reach 100 in his career becoming the 247th player to do so in Tigers history

Cole Sanford needs 1 assist to pass Jay Bouwmeester for 50th all time in franchise history

Ty Stanton will play in his 200th career game tonight and will become the 79th player in franchise history to do so

David Quenneville needs 2 games to reach 100 in his career and will become the 246th player to do so in Tigers history

2015-16 CLUB LEADERS:

Goals (21) Max Gerlach Assists (26) Chad Butcher Points (36) Chad Butcher

PIM (83) Connor Clouston Plus/Minus (+5) Connor Clouston Wins (7) Nick Schneider

SPECIAL TEAMS:

POWER PLAY: 30/160 - 18.8% (ranked 14th in WHL)

HOME - 20/80 - 25.0% (ranked 5th in WHL)

PENALTY KILL: 118/157 - 75.2% (ranked 20th in WHL)

HOME - 48/68 - 70.6% (ranked 22nd 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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