WHL Medicine Hat Tigers

Game 59: February 20 vs. Portland

Published on February 20, 2016 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Medicine Hat Tigers News Release


VS. WINTERHAWKS: Tonight marks the lone annual meeting between the Winterhawks and Tigers as they make their way through the Central Division. Last year the Tigers dropped a 4-1 decision in the state of Oregon. Portland is coming off of a 4-2 victory over the Hurricanes last night and the Tabbies snapped their 8 game losing streak last night, beating the Calgary Hitmen 3-2.

TONIGHT'S MATCHUP:

Portland is unbeaten in their past 5 games (4-0-1-0), as they have taken 3 of those games to overtime

Tigers forward Steven Owre has been hot since returning from long term injury on January 25th, the California native has scored 6 goals and assisted on 4 others (10 points) over the 11 games since coming back

Portland's goaltender Adin Hill has started the last 25 games, backup Michael Bullion hasn't started since December 19th, 2015

2015-16 WHL RANKINGS: Record (21-33-3-1). Central Div. - 5th Eastern Con. - T10th Home - (12-14-1-1) Away (9-19-2-0)

TIGERS FAST FACTS:

Portland all time versus the Tigers have played 73 regular season games, with the Winterhawks holding a 43-27-1-1-1 record, however the Winterhawks have struggled in the Gas City, posting a 14-21-1-1-0 record in Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat snapped an 8 game losing streak last night against Calgary, however gave up 50 shots on goal for the second time in three games

Medicine Hat is 12-1 when leading after 40 minutes and hold a 10-11 record when scoring the first goal

TIGERS VS: (BDN 0-3), (CGY 3-1), (EDM 5-0), (EVT 1-0), (KAM 2-0), (KEL 0-3), (KTN 3-0-1), (LETH 1-3-1), (MJ 2-2), (POR 0-0), (PA 0-2-1), (PG 1-1), (RD 0-5-0-1), (REG 0-3), (SAS 2-2), (SEA 0-1), (SPO 1-0), (SC 0-2), (TRI 0-1), (VAN 0-2), (VIC 0-2)

FEBRUARY 20TH TEAM HISTORY: We head back to the 1998-1999 season as the Tigers took on the Red Deer Rebels. Led by Berkeley Buchko's 2 goals and Ben Thomson's 3 assists, the Tabbies went on to beat the Rebels 4-0. Scott Buhler recorded a 35 save shutout, his only donut on the season. The victory ended up being only the 13th on the season, but snapped a 12 game losing streak

OFFENSE: Medicine Hat's offense has struggled as of late, but some of their struggles haven't come because of a lack of chances. The Tigers have hit posts, crossbars and have faced hot goaltenders on their current slide, not making it easy. Since their 3 game winning streak in middle of January, the Tigers have scored 28 goals while they allowed 60 as they only have 3 wins in 14 games.

WHO'S HOT: TIGERS: David Quenneville has 10 points in his past 10 games, Chad Butcher has 8 points in his past 10 games, Steven Owre is on a 3 game point streak. WINTERHAWKS: Rodrigo Abols has goals in four of his last five games, with 10 points in the month of February, Jack Dougherty is on a 3 game point streak

TOP 50 WHL PLAYERS: Medicine Hat got news this week that former Tiger and member of the original Tigers, Tom Lysiak was voted in the Top 50 WHL players of all-time. Lysiak was voted in at #39 and played 3 seasons with the Tabbies, recording back to back seasons of 143 and 157 points respectively. Lysiak also holds the 2nd and 3rd most assists in Tigers franchise history for a single year after recording 97 and 96 in back to back seasons

2015-16 CLUB LEADERS:

Goals (24) Max Gerlach Assists (35) Chad Butcher Points (54) Chad Butcher

PIM (111) Connor Clouston Plus/Minus (-2) Connor Clouston, Clayton Kirichenko

Wins (13) Nick Schneider

SPECIAL TEAMS:

POWER PLAY: 47/242 - 19.4% (ranked 13th in WHL)

HOME- 28/112 - 25.0% (ranked 3rd in WHL)

PENALTY KILL: 171/226 - 75.7% (ranked 20th in WHL)

HOME- 69/94 - 73.4% (ranked T21st 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.

TIGERS SCHEDULE:

LAST FIVE REGULAR SEASON

RESULTS:

NEXT FIVE:

TIME:

Feb. 6 @ Brandon Wheat Kings 6-2 LOSS

VS. Portland Winterhawks Sat. Feb. 20 7:30 PM (MT)

Feb. 9 VS. Saskatoon Blades 7-1 LOSS

@ Calgary Hitmen Sun. Feb. 21 4:00 PM (MT)

Feb. 10 @ Red Deer Rebels 4-1 LOSS

VS. Regina Pats Tues. Feb. 23 7:00 PM (MT)

Feb. 13 @ Swift Current Broncos 4-1 LOSS

@ Swift Current Broncos Fri. Feb. 26 6:00 PM (MT)

Feb. 19 VS. Calgary Hitmen 3-2 WIN

VS. Brandon Wheat Kings Sat. Feb. 27 7:30 PM (MT)

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