Tigers hold off Raiders, defeat Prince Albert 3-1

With under thirty seconds left in the powerplay, Tigers captain Oasiz Wiesblatt would pry a puck free from the corner and feed it to Jonas Woo who wired a shot into the top corner to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead.

The assist would extend Wiesblatt’s point streak to eight games, but the Tiger Captain wasn’t done there.

Five and a half minutes later, Tanner Molendyk would send a pass from his own goalline onto the tape of Wiesblatt at the Raider blueline for a breakaway.

Wiesblatt would outwait the Raider netminder Max Hildebrand and tuck the puck into the open net for his 26th goal of the season, making it a 2-0 Tiger lead.

The Tigers would carry the lead into the first intermission, but begin the second period shorthanded for 41 seconds, with Mathew Ward off for slashing.

Medicine Hat would kill off the remainder of the powerplay to begin the second, and similar to the first controlled the pace of play.

Shortly before the halfway mark of the period, Tigers leading goal-scorer Hunter St. Martin took a blindside hit at center ice and headed down the tunnel into the Tigers dressing room.

Play would be stopped shortly after, but no penalty was called on the Raiders.

Out of the stoppage, the Raiders would win a defensive zone faceoff, go down the length of the ice and Harrison Lodewyk would spin a shot through the five hole of Jordan Switzer to get the Raiders back within a goal 2-1.

Fortunately for Medicine Hat, St. Martin would return to the bench shortly after and remain in the hockey game.

Medicine Hat would control play 5-on-5 but wound up in the penalty box twice more in the second period, but were able to kill off both penalties to take a 2-1 lead into the second intermission.

Prince Albert would begin the third period fast, determined to tie the game at two.

A prime chance would come just under six minutes into the period when Tigers forward Oasiz Wiesblatt got called for a hook to send the Raiders to their fifth powerplay of the night.

Despite great chances, Jordan Switzer and the Tiger penalty kill would stand tall and keep the Tigers in front 2-1, improving to five for five on the penalty kill.

It would remain a one-goal hockey game with 1:58 to go, and a faceoff in the Medicine Hat zone.

Prince Albert used their lone timeout of the game and pulled the goalie to go 6-on-5 in an effort to square the game at two and force overtime.

The Raiders would win the faceoff but the Tigers quickly stole the puck and rushed down ice the other way.

Hunter St. Martin took a pass from Gavin McKenna and shot it at the open net and…..missed.

Prince Albert would rush back the other way and send a pass through the slot just past the stick of Oli Chenier.

The Tigers would again clear, and this time made no mistake with Marcus Pacheco sending the puck square into the middle of the open net with 34 seconds left to make it 3-1 and put the game away.

Gavin McKenna would pick up an assist on the goal, extending his point streak to a bewildering 30 games!

The Raiders would fail to get the puck back into the Tigers zone and Medicine Hat would skate away with a 3-1 victory, avenging their 5-4 overtime loss Saturday night to the Raiders.

With the win, the Tigers also take the season series with Prince Albert, securing points in all four games recording a 3-0-1-0 record.

Medicine Hat (35-16-3-1) now heads home to begin a four-game home stand which gets underway Saturday night against the Regina Pats (14-32-4-2).

by Will Bryant

Tigers hold off Raiders, defeat Prince Albert 3-1

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