Tigers’ Baker expected to miss rest of season

By Medicine Hat News on March 2, 2022.

The Medicine Hat Tigers could be without their captain for the rest of the season.

Tuesday morning the Tigers confirmed with the News that defenseman Daniel Baker would miss the rest of the 2021-’22 WHL season with an upper body injury suffered in Saturday’s 9-2 loss to the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

The 20-year-old has played his entire 213 game Western Hockey League career with the Tigers since being drafted 26th overall in the 2016 draft. In that span he’s contributed 20 goals and 69 assists for 89 points.

This season, he’s played in all 49 games the Tigers had played entering Tuesday’s contest against Red Deer. The Edmonton product has five goals and 20 assists this year.

Baker was named the 38th Tigers captain in the team’s 51-year history on Dec. 4th, 2021, before the Tigers 4-1 loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Medicine Hat News Santa Claus Fund Teddy Bear toss game.

He joins a long list of injured Tigers as the WHL grind has taken its effect on the Tabbies. Forwards Tyler MacKenzie, Noah Danielson and Brendan Lee are all on the injury shelf with no timetable for their returns. Defenceman Gleb Ivanov missed Saturday’s game in Lethbridge. Goaltender Beckett Langkow took a puck off his finger in practice last Tuesday and has been out of the lineup since.

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