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Tigers rookies expecting to win like vets
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers’ rookies are looking to get more than an experience from the WHL Championship series. Medicine Hat’s first-year trio of Markus and Liam Ruck and Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll have been relied upon all season long, stepping in as 16-year-olds, Gordon-Carroll starting the year at 15, running the Tigers’ fourth line in name ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dancing with Ed: Tigers, Chiefs get set for WHL Championship series
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The 2025 Western Hockey League Championship series will be a fairytale-like story for one of the Medicine Hat Tigers or Spokane Chiefs. Both teams waited over a decade since their last trip to the finals and last championship, Medicine Hat in 2007 and Spokane the next year. They’ve each endured beyond trying years as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chiefs look to maintain consistency in WHL finals
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Spokane Chiefs have done a lot of things the right way to make it to the WHL’s Championship series. They hope they can continue it for a few more weeks. The Chiefs look to represent the Western Conference well as they take on the Medicine Hat Tigers in the WHL Final, looking for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Savour it: Pickford, Woo share previous WHL finals experience
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Two of the Medicine Hat Tigers’ key offseason acquisitions look to make good on their May 2024 promises. Defencemen Bryce Pickford and Jonas Woo were acquired by the Tigers at the 2024 WHL Draft, both bringing WHL playoff experience and looking to help Medicine Hat get back to the Championship series for the first ... Read More »
2 responsesMcKenna magic to hit WHL’s biggest stage
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Gavin Mckenna has already been crowned the WHL’s best in the regular season. He and the Medicine Hat Tigers are four wins away from being the tops of the league in 2025. The Tigers forward was named the WHL’s player of the year for 2024-25 on Wednesday, two days before they hit the ice ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!“Last kick at the can,” Wiesblatt ready to show what Tigers got
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Oasiz Wiesblatt hopes to leave his No. 7 in a better place than where he found it, by bringing a championship to Medicine Hat. The Tigers’ captain enters the Western Hockey League Championship with a lot of years in the league behind him and mere days left in his junior hockey career. Ahead of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tigers excited by WHL U.S. Draft, find valued depth in Prospects Draft
By JAMES TUBB on May 9th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Despite not having a first-round pick, the Medicine Hat Tigers are excited by the players selected in Thursday’s WHL Drafts. The Tigers drafted 13 players total across the WHL’s U.S. Priority Draft and the second-through-15th rounds of the WHL Prospects Draft. After many deliberations, phone calls, energy drinks and pepperoni sticks consumed, director of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!2025 WHL Draft tracker: Tigers’ U.S. Priority and Prospect Draft selections
By James Tubb on May 8th, 2025
James Tubb @ReporterTubb WHL U.S. Priority Draft Round One The Brandon Wheat Kings opened the WHL U.S. Priority Draft by selecting forward Levi Ellington from Pasco, WASH. The 15-year-old had 14 goals. and 27 points in 10 games with STAR Hockey Academy U14AAA in 2024-25. 16th overall: D Jake Burmis The Tigers selected defenceman Jake ... Read More »
1 responseMcKenna named WHL’s player of the year
By JAMES TUBB on May 8th, 2025
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb A fact already known by those who watch him every night, Gavin McKenna is the WHL’s best in 2024-25. The Medicine Hat Tigers forward was named the WHL’s player of the year Wednesday, receiving the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy. McKenna is the fourth Tiger to be named player of the year, the first since ... Read More »
1 responsePats make splash, select twice in top-3 in first round of 2025 WHL Draft
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 8th, 2025
sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Regina Pats kicked off the 2025 WHL Draft in style. The Pats selected Regina product Maddox Schultz first overall, then after a trade, selected forward Liam Pue with the third overall pick. The 15-year-old Schultz had 43 goals and 93 points in 44 games to win the Saskatchewan U18 AAA Hockey League scoring ... Read More »
1 responsePenticton Vees acquire 22 players in Expansion Draft
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 8th, 2025
sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Hockey League’s Expansion Draft saw the Penticton Vees acquire 22 players Wednesday. The WHL’s newest club selected 13 players and acquired nine more via trade during the Expansion Draft process Wednesday. All 20 of the WHL’s eliminated teams had to submit their protected lists Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s draft. Penticton completed seven ... Read More »
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