Kyle Woolridge at the faceoff and Nolen Sutherland, lined up on the wing, are two of several Cubs headed to the HJHL All-Star Game. File Photo/CHAT News

By Jesse Gill

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The Medicine Hat Cubs had six players and two coaches named to the Heritage Junior Hockey League All-Star team on Monday.

Representing the South Division will be forwards Kyle Woolridge, Mason Osinski, and Nolen Sutherland, defencemen Blake Girard and Austin Derzaph, and goaltender Marlo DeRosa.

They will be joined on the bench by head coach Trent Derzaph and associate coach Johnny Stehr.

Woolridge, 21, leads the Cubs in points with 31 in 19 games. He sits tied for fourth overall in the HJHL points race and tied for seventh for goals scored. The Medicine Hat forward is the team captain and is in his fifth and final season with the Cubs.

Sutherland, 18, is tied with Wooldridge for goals scored with 14, and sits second on the Cubs in points with 22 in 17 games. From Redcliff, the forward is in his second season with the Cubs.

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Osinski, 19, has 19 points, with 10 goals in 19 games played. The forward from Eastend, Sask., is in his second season with the Cubs.

Girard, 18, in his first season with the Cubs, joined the team in October after starting the season with the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League‘s Melfort Mustangs. The defenceman from Eastend, Sask., has 11 points, including three goals in 13 games played with the team.

Austin Derzaff, 21, is in his final season with the Cubs. He has played in three different seasons with the team, including last year. Derzaff also played two seasons with the Red Lake Miners in the Superior International Junior Hockey League. This season, he has 12 points, with three goals in 19 games. His father, Trent, is the head coach of the Cubs and will also coach at the All-Star game.

DeRosa, 19, is in his first season with the Cubs. In eight games played, he has six wins, two losses, a 2.13 goals against average, and .912 save percentage, with three shutouts. Among qualified goalies in the league, he sits fourth in goals against average, eighth in save percentage, and first in shutouts. From Castlegar, B.C., the goaltender suited up over the previous four seasons in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, serving mainly as a backup, but played in three games in the 2023-24 season. He played the majority of last season with the Crowsnest Pass Crunch in the National Junior Hockey League.

Trent Derzaff is in his first season as the Cubs’ head coach.

Stehr served as an assistant coach during his five previous seasons with the Cubs and became an associate coach at the start of the year.

The game will be played in Strathmore on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025.

The Cubs are currently on a five-game winning streak and are back in action this weekend, with a pair of home games at the Kinplex.

On Friday, the Cubs take on the Agri Risk Wheatland Kings from Strathmore who, sit a single point up on the Cubs for top spot in the South Division. Game time is at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, the Cubs host the Sylvan Lake Wranglers, who sit tied with the Red Deer Vipers for points in the North Division with 30. Game time is at 3 p.m.