By Scott Roblin

Tigers crushed by penalties Saturday in overtime loss to Edmonton

Nov 10, 2018 | 10:07 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – A gutsy effort to get Saturday night’s game to overtime for the Medicine Hat Tigers, but they couldn’t seal the deal in a 4-3 loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings.

Medicine Hat allowed a Brett Kemp marker just over a minute into the extra frame, finishing their weekend home stand with just one out of a possible four points.

The Tigers held the edge physically in the first period with a number of big hits, but offensively they couldn’t hold a candle to Edmonton’s attack which outshot Medicine Hat 18-6.

Luckily for the Tigers, Mads Sogaard came out to play and blanked the Oil Kings to keep the game scoreless after the opening 20 minutes.

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Sogaard was only able to hold the fort for so long however, as a parade to the penalty box cost the Tigers with a Kemp laser beam on the power play midway through the second.

Four minutes later though, Ryan Chyzowski was able to win a draw right to the tape of Ryan Jevne, who wired a wrist shot top shelf for his sixth of the year to knot things up at 1-1.

An unlikely source stepped up in the third period however, as Trevor Longo let a wrist shot go from the point that carried its way past Edmonton goalie Dylan Myskiw.

Not only did it serve as Medicine Hat’s go-ahead goal, it also was the towering defenceman’s first career WHL marker met by a hug from Josh Williams.

Medicine Hat almost extended their lead just seconds later, but Hayden Ostir was robbed by the glove hand of Myskiw on a cross-crease pass to keep it a 2-1 game.

Approaching the midway point of the third period, the Tigers were called simultaneously on a two-minute tripping penalty and a four-minute high sticking call.

As the boos rained down from the Canalta Centre crowd in protest of the double-minor, Edmonton tied up the game off a cross-ice dish to Vince Loschiavo.

Still on the power play, the Oil Kings scored their third goal of the night on the man advantage with 8:41 left off the blade of Belorussian Andrei Pavlenko.

Just as it seemed that momentum was swinging towards Edmonton, the Oil Kings committed back-to-back penalties to give Medicine Hat their own 5-on-3 power play.

Following a whiffed on shot by Medicine Hat, Ostir made up for his earlier robbed goal from Myskiw, scoring the game-tying marker off a rebound with 6:10 left in regulation.

After a big penalty kill the Oil Kings held the puck in the attacking zone in the dying seconds of the period, but Jevne put his body on the line with a pair of blocked shots to force overtime.

But a win wasn’t in the cards, as Trey Fix-Wolansky cycled back into the neutral zone to gain speed and set up Kemp for his second of the night to seal the two points for Edmonton.

Penalties crushed Medicine Hat after being sent to the box eight times, with the Oil Kings scoring all three of their goals in regulation on the man advantage.

Even though his team came away on the losing side, Sogaard was spectacular on Saturday with a 41-save showing in a losing effort.

Losing their first game in overtime this season, the 9-8-1-2 Tigers were able to climb past the idle Lethbridge Hurricanes into third place in the Central Division with 21 points.

Medicine Hat now embarks on a week-long, four game road trip through Saskatchewan and Manitoba which begins on Tuesday night in Saskatoon in a rematch against the Blades.