WHL Portland Winterhawks

Winterhawks Fall 4-2 in Medicine Hat Wednesday

Published on October 26, 2011 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Portland Winterhawks News Release


The Portland Winterhawks (7-6-1-1) fell 4-2 in a road contest against the Medicine Hat Tigers (10-4-0-0) Wednesday night in the fourth game of their nine-game road trip.

Portland opened the scoring 9:55 into the first period on the third goal of the season from defenseman Joe Morrow. The Tigers responded 1:02 later when Scott McKay scored to even the game at 1-1, but the Winterhawks quickly regained the lead 50 seconds later when Chase De Leo scored his second of the season to give the team a 2-1 lead they'd take into the second period.

The Winterhawks then outshot Medicine Hat in the second period, but it was the Tigers who got the only goal of the period when Hunter Shinkaruk scored with under a minute to go in the frame to tie the game at 2-2 going into the third.

The game remained even through much of the third, until Medicine Hat's Cole Grbavac scored a power play goal at the 17:17 mark to take a 3-2 lead. With under a minute remaining, Portland netminder Mac Carruth was on the bench for an extra attacker as the Hawks tried to tie the game and force overtime. But the Tigers' Emerson Etem scored into the empty net with 29 seconds remaining to seal Medicine Hat's 4-2 win.

Carruth finished with 21 saves on 24 Medicine Hat shots, while the Tigers' Tyler Bunz stopped 27 of 29 Portland shots.

The Hawks are back in action Friday night when their road trip takes them to Lethbridge, in a game against the Hurricanes that begins at 6 p.m.

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