Randy Feere / Medicine Hat Tigers

By Will Bryant

Sports

Droppin’ dimes: Tigers hang ten spot on Pats for the second time this season

Jan 22, 2025 | 12:00 AM

It was an offensive outburst Tuesday night for the Medicine Hat Tigers.

Seven different skaters combined for ten goals as Medicine Hat routed the Regina Pats 10-4 in their final home game until February 7th.

It is the second time this season the Tigers have scored ten goals, with both occurring against the Pats.

Medicine Hat would start the game fast, a common theme as of late.

Just over a minute into the hockey game Kadon McCann would net his eight of the year to get the Tigers in front early.

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Ethan Neutens, Ryder Ritche, and Oasiz Wiesblatt would combine to find the back of the net three more times in the opening twenty minutes to secure a 4-0 Tiger lead through the first period.

That success would trickle into the early part of the second when a Liam Ruck powerplay goal made it 5-0 for the orange & black.

Regina would not go down without a fight as Zach Lansard, Jace Egland, and Zach Moore would score three of the game’s next four goals for the Pats to shrink the deficit to three.

Medicine Hat had seen this type of rally attempt from Regina before.

Back on Nov 1st, the Pats scored three second period goals in 1:46 span, just minutes after the Tigers made it 5-0 to get right back in the game.

To begin the third period, the Tigers snuffed out any potential Regina rally.

Twenty-three seconds into the third, Marcus Pacheco picked up a loose puck in the slot and tucked it by the Regina netminder Kelton Pyne to get the Tigers in front 7-3.

The Pats would respond with a powerplay goal from Caden Brown that went bar-down to get the game back to within three.

That goal seemed to energize the Tigers as Medicine Hat poured it on from that point.

The Tigers would see McCann, Jonas Woo, and Liam Ruck strike three more times in the third period to secure a 10-4 victory and extend their season-high win streak to seven games.

Hunter St. Martin had a career-high four-assist performance in the win, earning first-star honours on the night.

The win saw 14 different Tigers record at least a point, with eight having multi-point affairs.

The Eastern Conference-leading Tigers will now embark on a six-game U.S division road trip where they will play six games over nine days spanning Jan 21 – Feb 1.

Medicine Hat (28-15-2-0) kicks off their six-game road trip Friday night, against the new-look Spokane Chiefs (29-15-0-0) in a battle of the league’s top two leading scorers, Andrew Cristall (SPO), and Gavin McKenna (MH).