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Tigers Annual Skills Competition Recap

November 25, 2015 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
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Medicine Hat, AB -- The Medicine Hat Tigers had some fun on Tuesday night with the 5th annual Skills Competition presented by ATB Financial. The Tigers competed in 6 different events and sent the 300+ fans on a cold wintery night home entertained and happy with a great showing of skill and speed.

Take a look at this year's roster and winners!

Team Owre (Black)

#2 Brad Forrest

#4 Ty Stanton

#7 Matt Bradley

#10 James Hamblin

#14 Ryan Jevne

#15 Ty Schultz

#27 Mark Rassell

#31 Nick Schneider

#34 Clayton Kirichenko

Captain: #11 Steven Owre

Team Butcher (White)

#3 Nick Heid

#16 Max Gerlach

#18 Mason Shaw

#19 David Quenneville

#22 Tyler Preziuso

#23 Caleb Fantillo

#24 Alex Mowbray

#25 Connor Clouston

#26 Cole Sanford

#30 Mack Shields

Captain: #21 Chad Butcher

In the night's first event, the team's were tasked with putting their fastest skaters against each other to determine who actually is the fastest skater on the team.

Heat 1: Bradley vs. Shaw - Winner: Bradley

Heat 2: Hamblin vs. Butcher - Winner: Butcher

Heat 3: Jevne vs. Preziuso - Winner: Preziuso

Heat 4 (2 fastest times): Bradley vs. Preziuso - Winner: Bradley

Team Owre wins the Fastest Skater competition with a time of 14.84 seconds

The night's second event was a showcase of skill and talent in the Accuracy Shot, shooting down 4 targets in the quickest amount of time and least amount of pucks. Each player had 10 pucks to knock down the 4 targets.

Stanton: 1/10 pucks - 37.25 sec   Butcher: 4/10 pucks - 29.17 sec

Bradley: 4/8 pucks - 22.44 sec Mowbray: 4/5 pucks - 14.75 sec

Kirichenko: 3/10 pucks - 27.03 sec Sanford: 4/6 pucks - 15.13 sec

Team Butcher wins the Accuracy Shot competition with Alex Mowbray's 5 pucks in 14.75 seconds.

In one of two marquee events on this night, the Hardest Shot competition was led by potential winner David Quenneville, who was in for a surprise Tuesday as the compeition was stiff. This year the contestants had 2 shots to try and break the 100mph barrier.

Bradley: 88, 91 Quenneville: 89, 93

Heid: NS, 92   Jevne: 89, 90

Kirichenko: 84, 89 Clouston: 89, 94

Team Butcher wins the Hardest Shot Competition with Connor Clouston's 94mph blast.

In one of the unique events of the night, the two teams were setup in the Team Relay, an event which puts both agility and stickhandling to the test. There were 2 groups (1 from each team) in this event made up of 5 players each. The fastest time was the winner.

Schultz, Stanton, Forrest, Hamblin: 52.09 sec

Heid, Fantillo, Shaw, Gerlach: 57.18 sec

Team Owre won the Team Relay competition with a total time of 52.09 seconds.

The other marquee event of the competition, the Showtime Shootout which was highlighted last season by a "video game" goal by Mark Rassell. Rassell was the only returning defending champion this year. Each player had 2 chances to impress the judges and record the highest scores possible (out of 30 points per round).

Rassell: 14, 22 = 36 pts   Quenneville: 12.5, 21 = 33.5 pts

Forrest: 10, 28 = 38 pts   Gerlach: 17, 4.5 = 21.5 pts

Owre: 18, 24.5 = 42.5 pts   Fantillo: 21.5, 15 = 36.5 pts

Team Owre wins the Showtime Shootout with Captain Owre's 42.5 points.

The final event of the night was a fun Elimination Shootout, a time where both teams are sent at the goalie in an attempt to be the last player standing.

Forrest: 0/1   Heid: 0/1

Stanton: 0/1   Gerlach: 2/4

Stanton 2: 0/1   Shaw: 0/1

Bradley: 0/1   Preziuso: 0/1

Hamblin: 0/1   Quenneville: 0/1

Jevne: 0/1   Fantillo: 0/1

Schultz: 0/1   Butcher: 0/1

Rassell: 0/1     Mowbray: 0/1

Kirichenko: 1/4   Sanford: 0/1

Owre: 0/1   Clouston: 0/1

Team Butcher wins the Elimination Shootout by Max Gerlach being the last person standing, scoring in 2 of 4 rounds of the competition, beating Clayton Kirichenko.

The overall winner of the competition was Team Butcher who needed the last event to pick up the annual trophy as it was a back and forth competition.

Another victory was had on this night as the Tiger fans in attendance help raise $2159 to the MS Society of Canada! Thank you!

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