Tigers wax Wheat Kings 5-0 for second consecutive shutout win

The game started with the Tigers heading to an early penalty kill with Josh Van Mulligan being called for an interference minor.

The Tigers would kill it off and control play 5-on-5.

That would be rewarded with Oasiz Wiesblatt tucking a shot underneath the blocker of Wheat Kings netminder Carson Bjarnason for his 30th of the season, making it 1-0 Tigers.

The Tigers would continue to dominate the flow of play and took the 1-0 lead into the intermission.

The second period would see the Tigers pick up right where they left off

Just over ninety seconds into the second, Mathew Ward would surprise Bjarnason with a spinning shot along the ice from the high slot that fooled the Wheat King netminder, getting Medicine Hat ahead 2-0.

Ninety seconds later, the Tigers would make it 3-0 when Ryder Ritchie ripped a wrister that skimmed off Oasiz Wiesblatt and past Bjarnason to get the Cats ahead by three.

The Tigers would continue their offensive onslaught at the 9:58 mark when Liam Ruck tapped home a Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll pass making it 4-0 Tigers.

The Tigers would press but failed to put any more pucks by Bjarnason, leading 4-0 through forty minutes.

To begin the third, Ethan Eskit would head between the pipes for Brandon, seeing Bjarnason’s nights end early after allowing four goals on 24 shots.

The Tigers would continue to push and control the game and were rewarded with under four minutes to go when Marcus Pacheco floated a point shot past a screened Ethan Eskit to make it 5-0 Tigers.

The goal was Pacheco’s third in as many games and third in four games since moving back to defense.

Things would get chippy late but Medicine Hat kept their cool and coasted to a 5-0 victory, their second shutout win in a row.

The shutout was Harrison Meneghin’s third shutout of the season, one shy of the league, and team lead.

Medicine Hat has now played seven consecutive periods of shutout hockey, and has not allowed a goal in 147 minutes and 35 seconds of action.

The Tigers also have only allowed three goals over their last four games, with all three of those goals against coming on the road in Edmonton.

The Medicine Hat Tigers (41-17-3-1) now head home where they will be in action Tuesday night when they play host to the Kelowna Rockets (17-36-4-2) for the lone time this season.

by Will Bryant

Tigers wax Wheat Kings 5-0 for second consecutive shutout win

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