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Game 60: February 21 vs. Calgary

February 21, 2016 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
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@ HITMEN: Tonight marks the fifth meeting of the season and just the second at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Medicine Hat beat the Hitmen on Friday night in Medicine Hat 3-2, where Nick Schneider faced 50 shots, stopping 48 of them as Chad Butcher scored a shorthanded goal for the game winner. Mason Shaw leads all Tigers against the Hitmen this season, scoring 7 points including a team high 5 points in 4 games this season.

TONIGHT'S MATCHUP:

Medicine Hat is 1-9-0-0 in their past 10 games, with the only victory coming against the Hitmen Friday, Calgary is 5-4-0-1 in their past 10 games and are coming off of a 3-2 victory last night against Lethbridge

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 5 others (11 points) over the 12 games since coming back

Hitmen defenseman Travis Sanheim is on a 6 game point streak heading into tonight's game, he also ranks 7th in defenseman scoring

2015-16 WHL RANKINGS: Record (21-34-3-1). Central Div. - 5th Eastern Con. - 11th Home - (12-15-1-1) Away (9-19-2-0)

TIGERS FAST FACTS:

Medicine Hat allowed 8 goals for the fourth time this season, all coming during the calendar year of 2016, the last time Medicine Hat allowed 4 or more games of 8 goals was back during the 2000-2001 season

Over the past 8 games, Medicine Hat has scored 1 goal 6 times, meanwhile the Hitmen have scored 28 times over the same span

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 0-1), (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 21st TEAM HISTORY: We take you back to the 2008-2009 season when the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes came to the Gas City as a Tigers squad who boasted Tyler Ennis, Linden Vey and Brennan Bosch rolled to an 8-3 victory. The rivalry however between the two clubs was evident in this one as 238 penalty minutes were dished out, including 12 fighting majors. Lethbridge's Kris Versteeg fought twice, as did Tigers Zdenek Okal and Matt McCue. On the offense, Brennan Bosch had 5 points, along with a 4 goal night from Tyler Ennis.

CHILLIN' IN THE DOME: The Tigers and Hitmen see each other 6 times every season, but over the past 4 meetings at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Tigers have lost just once, a February 17th date last year.

WHO'S HOT: TIGERS: David Quenneville has 10 points in his past 11 games, Chad Butcher has 8 points in his past 11 games, Steven Owre is on a 4 game point streak. HITMEN: Jakob Stukel is on a 3 game point streak (3G, 1A), Radel Fazleev has 6 points on a 3 game 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 (25) Max Gerlach Assists (35) Chad Butcher Points (54) Chad Butcher

PIM (111) Connor Clouston Plus/Minus (-4) Connor Clouston, Clayton Kirichenko

Wins (13) Nick Schneider

SPECIAL TEAMS:

POWER PLAY: 47/246 - 19.1% (ranked 15th in WHL)

AWAY- 19/130 - 14.6% (ranked 22nd in WHL)

PENALTY KILL: 173/230 - 75.2% (ranked 21st in WHL)

AWAY- 102/132 - 77.3% (ranked 16th 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. 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)

Feb. 20 VS. Portland Winterhawks

8-1 LOSS

VS. Kootenay Ice Tues. Mar. 1

7:00 PM (MT)

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