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By Scott Roblin

Four Unanswered Goals

Multi-goal lead vanishes for Tigers in home ice loss to Edmonton

Feb 12, 2022 | 10:58 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – For a 20 second stretch, the Medicine Hat Tigers held a two-goal lead over the Eastern Conference’s top team on Saturday.

That stretch was short-lived however, as the Edmonton Oil Kings netted four unanswered goals to top the Tigers for the fourth time in five meetings this season.

Tigers blueliner Dru Krebs recorded his first multi-goal game of his WHL career, but the Tigers saw a 3-1 lead evaporate in the second period to suffer their third consecutive loss.

Krebs needed just nine minutes into the first period to score his first of the night, joining a rush with Oren Shtrom and tipping a shot past Kolby Hay from the slot to make it a 1-0 game.

Edmonton answered back in the final 3:40 of the opening frame, as Carter Souch crossed the wires of the Tigers’ defence and firing a shot from the left side of the ice for his 14th of the year.

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Despite being heavily outshot early in the second period, the Tigers were able to jump back into the lead with a Rhett Parsons point shot that settled into the slot for Steven Arp to fire home.

Under two minutes later, Krebs picked up the puck from the corner and cut in front of the net to catch Hay moving across his crease on the backhand to give Medicine Hat a 3-1 lead.

Momentum quickly shifted back into the Oil Kings’ favour however, with defender Luke Prokop pulling the visitors within a single goal just 20 seconds later.

Beckett Langkow stepped up with a number of highlight-reel saves as the second period rolled along, but the dam finally burst with less than three minutes left in the period as Cole Miller converted on a rebound to tie up the game at 3-3.

Playing in his 250th career WHL game on Saturday, former Tiger Josh Williams made his old club pay with a goal in the final minutes of play before the intermission to give Edmonton their first lead of the night.

Just 64 seconds into the third, the Oil Kings added an insurance goal from captain Jake Neighbours while Edmonton’s defence limited the Tigers to four shots on goal in the third to hold on for the victory.

Langkow posted 30 saves in the loss for Medicine Hat, while Hay earned his fourth victory of the season against the Tigers with 13 stops in the Oil Kings’ net.

Falling to a 9-29-3-1 record on the season, the Tigers kick off four games in six nights on Wednesday playing host the Brandon Wheat Kings at 7:00 pm.