Tigers get revenge on Raiders
The Medicine Hat Tigers scored early and took control of their game Friday night against the Prince Albert Raiders, winning 6-2 and picking up their fourth win of the season.
Both teams traded chances and odd-man rushes in the first before the Tigers opened the scoring less than 10 minutes into the period.
Oren Shtrom tapped in a rebound off Raider netminder Carter Serhyenko for his second of the year to get Medicine Hat on the board.
The Tigers would only hold the lead for a couple of minutes before the Raiders would tie it up at 1-1 off a Dallyn Peekeekoot goal 11:48 into the period.
Despite the back-and-forth chances, the two goals would be the only offence of the period as the Tigers ended frame ahead in the shot category 19-12.
Hayden Pakkala scored with a puck loose in front of Medicine Hat’s Beckett Langkow break the tie for Prince Albert early in the second. The Tigers went on a 5-on-3 power play a few minutes later due to high sticking and delay of game penalties by the Raiders. After the first penalty expired, Oasiz Wiesblatt, playing against his brother Ozzy, tipped in a Daniel Baker point shot for his first goal of the season, tying the game up at two.
Medicine Hat started pouring it on after that, with Teague Patton scoring on another power play to put the Tigers ahead for the second time.
As they were still announcing Patton’s goal that Wiesblatt and Shtrom assisted, Steven Arp scored off the rush to grow Medicine Hat’s lead to 4-2. Arp’s goal, 13:24 into the second frame, was his first in the WHL.
The teams continued to trade chances into the third, then Corson Hopwo finished a tic-tac-toe play on the man advantage to put the Tigers up 5-2 with 8:24 left in the third.
Noah Danielson then redirected a Lukas Svejkovsky point shot to add to their lead as time trickled down.
Langkow, in his third start of the season, stopped 44 of the 46 shots he faced in the game. He was in net for Medicine Hat last Saturday night when they lost to the Raiders 3-2 in a shootout.
Serhyenko, stopped 22 of the 28 Tigers shots he met in his seventh start of the season for Prince Albert. The Tigers hit the road Saturday as they head to Edmonton for a rematch with the Oil Kings. Medicine Hat beat Edmonton 3-2 in a shootout back on Oct. 9.
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