Evan Morud/Everett Silvertips

By Will Bryant

Sports

Tigers triumph over ‘Tips 7-3, push win-streak to 11

Jan 30, 2025 | 12:52 AM

The Medicine Hat Tigers are now on their longest win streak since the ’06-’07 season after a 7-3 win Wednesday night in Everett.

The victory was more than just a win, it was a statement.

This marquee matchup between the league’s top two seeds was a test for both clubs, and Medicine Hat had the answers.

However, the game wouldn’t start out that way.

Nine minutes in, Carter Bear would shovel home a rebound after Tigers goalie Harrison Meneghin made the initial save.

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Bear contacted Meneghin on the goal, but after the officials talked it over, the goal stood, and Bear got his 33rd of the season to get Everett out to a 1-0 lead.

It would look like Everett would carry that lead into the intermission, but the Tigers would turn the tables.

With a delayed penalty on Everett the Tigers pulled the goalie to go 6-on-5 and wouldn’t need the powerplay to tie the game up.

Hunter St. Martin drove in the right side of the Everett zone and fired a pair of shots onto Jesse Sanche who would make both saves, but Schaeffer Gordon-Carroll would find the rebound and shovel it home to tie the game at one with under three minutes left in the opening frame.

Less than a minute later, the Tigers would take the lead.

Mathew Ward would rifle home a one-timer past a sprawling Sanche to swing the momentum firmly in the Tigers’ favour and silence the Silvertips crowd.

The Tigers would take the 2-1 lead into the first intermission but began the middle frame on the penalty kill with Veeti Vaisanen off for checking to the head late in the opening frame.

Medicine Hat would see success starting the second despite beginning short-handed.

Josh Van Mulligan would spring Oasiz Wiesblatt on a short-handed 2-on-0 breakaway with Gavin McKenna.

Wiesblatt would get the puck across to McKenna who tapped it in to get the Tigers their first two-goal lead of the night.

It was McKenna’s first shorthanded goal of the season and extended his point streak to 24 games, a season-best throughout the entire WHL.

The Tigers would carry the lead late into the period when Silvertips forward Jesse Heslop got sent in alone on Harrison Meneghin.

Meneghin would sprawl out and extend his left leg back to rob Heslop, and keep the Tigers in-front through forty minutes.

Much like the end of the first period. The end of the second period would see the Tigers take a penalty which meant Everett would begin the third on another powerplay.

Medicine Hat would kill off the final 13 seconds of the powerplay to begin the third, in large part thanks to another outstanding save from Harrison Meneghim.

But Everett would keep control and moments later see a Dominik Rymon point-shot beat a screened Meneghin cleanly blocker-side to get Everett back within a goal 32 seconds into the third.

Forty-five seconds after making it a one goal game, the Silvertips would head shorthanded after getting called for too many men.

The Tiger powerplay would take the ice for the second time on the night and needed less than 30 seconds to capitalize.

Tanner Molendyk found Gavin McKenna in the bottom of the right circle who drew the attention of all four Silvertip defenders.

Bryce Pickford would capitalize, sneaking to the bottom of the left dot where McKenna found Pickford who rifled home the puck to restore the Tiger two-goal lead.

Two minutes later, Harrison Meneghin would play a puck out of play from behind his net to send the Tigers shorthanded for a fourth time on the night and give hope back to Everett.

That hope would be extinguished when Gavin McKenna stole a puck away at center ice to go in on a breakaway alone on Jesse Sanche.

McKenna would tuck the puck five-hole for his second shorthanded goal and third point of the night, to give the Tigers the game’s first three-goal lead.

The Tigers would kill off the remainder of the penalty and three minutes later, Jonas Woo would join the scoring soiree.

Woo would find a puck in the high slot and tuck it low along the ice, to beat Sanche and give the Tigers a 6-2 advantage.

That goal would send Silvertip fans to the exits, and the ones who stayed began a ‘pull the goalie chant’ after Sanche allowed his sixth goal on just the Tigers’ 20th shot.

But the scoring wasn’t done.

Gavin McKenna would get his second hat trick of the season with under five minutes to go, firing a puck from the right circle past Sanche to send hats flying onto the ice from the handful of Tigers fans in attendance.

Everett would see Cole Temple add a goal in the final minute, but it would serve as nothing more than a morale boost, making the final score 7-3 for the Tigers.

With the win Medicine Hat extends their win streak to 11 games, their longest win streak since the 2006-07 season when they strung together 17 consecutive victories.

Medicine Hat (32-15-2-0) will be off until Friday, when they take on the reigning Western Conference champion Portland Winterhawks (27-16-2-1) before wrapping up their six-game road trip Saturday against Seattle (16-27-2-1).