Hunter St. Martin, left, puts one past the outstretched hand of Winnipeg Ice goalie Mason Beaupit on March 1, 2022.(Screengrab From www.whl.ca)

By Chris Brown

Tigers knock off top-ranked Ice

Mar 2, 2023 | 9:36 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – The Medicine Hat Tigers got back in the win column on Wednesday night and made a statement doing so, taking down the top team in the Canadian Hockey League.

The Tigers won 6-4 over the Winnipeg Ice, who lead the nation’s junior circuit with 47 wins and have topped the CHL rankings for six of the past eight weeks. The Tigers snapped the Ice’s 11-game win streak, just days after putting a halt to the Kamloops Blazers’ 11-game streak.

Oasiz Weisblatt’s two goals and two assists led the way for the Tigers, who found themselves down 2-0 just over five minutes into the game. Hunter St. Martin and Weisblatt tied the game before the first 20 minutes was up.

Andrew Basha and Cru Hanas – his first career WHL goal – sandwiched an Ice goal in the second to put the Tabbies ahead after 40. In the third Weisblatt and Reid Andresen sandwiched an Ice goal to seal the win for the Tigers.

Evan May was a rock on the goal line, turning aside 40 shots.

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The Tigers move up to seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings with the win. Two points separate the Tigers from the sixth-place Regina Pats and the eighth-place Swift Current Broncos, with the Calgary Hitmen, Brandon Wheat Kings and Prince Albert Raiders not far behind.

The Tigers host the Edmonton Oil Kings on Friday at Co-op Place before a two-game road trip to Manitoba next week.