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The Medicine Hat Tigers have put head coach Willie Desjardins back into the franchise record book — the team’s 3-2 win over the Red Deer Rebels on Monday night was Desjardins’ franchise-leading 376th. “I’m really lucky to be able to coach such a great franchise … and you just look at the history of this [...] Read More »

After a slow start, the Medicine Hat Tigers’ red hot power play converted three times to gain momentum and lead the team to a 4-2 win to hand the Red Deer Rebels their 10th straight loss on Friday night. The Tigers entered the game converting on a league-leading 40.7 per cent of their power play [...] Read More »

rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com@MHNMcCracken Kieran Christianson’s season with the Missoula Junior Bruins may have reached an end, but the 17-year-old Medicine Hat product still has one last event circled on the North American 3 Hockey League schedule. After bowing out in the opening round of the playoffs, Christianson was given the chance to extend his season by a [...] Read More »

The Medicine Hat Tigers have suspended all team activities after a COVID-19 case was identified within the cohort of the Calgary Hitmen on Friday afternoon. The Tigers have been listed as a close contact after playing the Hitmen on Monday. The suspension of team activities has postponed the Tigers (9-3-0-1) upcoming three-game series with the [...] Read More »

The Medicine Hat Tigers will look to return to the win column when they enter the Enmax Centre to face the rival Lethbridge Hurricanes tonight at 7 p.m. After opening a five-game winning streak with three straight against the Hurricanes (3-6-2-0), the Tigers (9-3-0-1) fell just short of making it six in Monday’s 5-4 shootout [...] Read More »

Monday’s Games NHL Florida 4 Columbus 2 Tampa Bay 3 Carolina 2 (OT) Dallas 3 Detroit 2 (SO) Nashville 5 Chicago 2 Edmonton 4 Montreal 1 Minnesota 5 Arizona 2 Ottawa 4 Calgary 2 Vegas 3 San Jose 2 (SO) — AHL Syracuse 6 Utica 2 — NBA Detroit 109 Cleveland 105 Chicago 102 Boston [...] Read More »

CALGARY – The Ottawa Senators may dwell in the bottom of the NHL’s North Division, but the club continued to be a headache for the Flames with a 4-2 win Monday over Calgary. Connor Brown scored a short-handed goal and also into an empty net for Ottawa (16-26-4), which won a second straight on the [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Connor McDavid scored the winner late in the third period as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 in a physical affair Monday. Jesse Puljujarvi, with a goal and an assist, Ethan Bear and Devin Shore also scored for Edmonton (27-15-2), while Mike Smith made 22 saves. McDavid also had two assists [...] Read More »

LAS VEGAS – Patrick Marleau surpassed “Mr. Hockey” for the most games played in NHL history. Marleau skated in his 1,768th career game to break Gordie Howe’s record when the San Jose Sharks took on the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday night. Though it was on the road, an exuberant pro-Golden Knights crowd gave Marleau [...] Read More »

CALGARY – Win or lose the season’s first Grand Slam final, Team Bottcher vice Darren Moulding felt his teammates should be more than proud of their showing in the curling bubble. They won their first Tim Hortons Brier title at the Markin MacPhail Centre and reached the quarterfinal at the world men’s championship. They followed [...] Read More »