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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Bryce Pickford has been having a blast since his return from injury. The Medicine Hat Tigers captain hasn’t lost a stride since missing 12 games due to an upper-body injury, running a seven-game point streak entering play Friday. Pickford has eight goals in his return, three coming in a 6-3 win over the Brandon [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers are mourning the sudden death of their bus driver. Donald Bihun suffered a medical emergency in the middle of their game Wednesday in Brandon against the Wheat Kings and later died. Head coach Willie Desjardins offered his condolences to the family and he says the driver was a part of [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Cubs have long seen themselves as one of the top four teams in the Heritage Junior Hockey League. After 24 years in the HJHL, they get a chance to prove they’re No. 1. The Cubs have advanced to the HJHL Finals for the first time in franchise history, beating the Cochrane [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com After spending most of the week on the road, the Medicine Hat Tigers returned home Friday with a win. The Tigers scored four goals in the third period in a back-and-forth affair at Co-op Place with Red Deer to beat the Rebels 8-4, picking up a ninth straight win. Seven Tigers recorded multi-point nights, [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Living up to his NHL club’s name, Andrew Basha has been red hot since returning to the WHL. The Calgary Flames prospect has recorded points in all but two of his 25 games with the Medicine Hat Tigers since returning in January. He enters play tonight, as the Tigers host the Red Deer Rebels, [...] Read More »

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique could only crouch down and watch as Monaco’s attacks kept coming in waves, his players powerless to stop them. After weeks of saying his team is attacking and defending better than last season, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, Luis Enrique’s body language spoke for itself. And [...] Read More »

MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer suffered another injury setback that will rule him out of Tuesday’s Champions League game against Atalanta. Bayern said Saturday that Neuer has a minor muscle tear in his left calf from the team’s 4-1 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach on Friday and that he will be out “for [...] Read More »

HONG KONG (AP) — Thomas Detry was among eight players from LIV Golf who were stranded in the United Arab Emirates at the start of the week during Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran. Now he’s tied for the lead with Jon Rahm, the player responsible for getting them out. “If it wasn’t for him, [...] Read More »

Eberechi Eze blasted Arsenal into the quarterfinals of the FA Cup on Saturday and kept alive the club’s hunt for a quadruple of trophies this season. Eze stepped off the bench and fired a thunderous effort into the top corner to see off the challenge of third-division Mansfield, sealing a 2-1 win at Field Mill. [...] Read More »

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Para alpine skiers Varvara Voronchikhina and Aleksei Bugaev won Russia’s first Paralympic medals since 2014 on Saturday by taking bronze in their respective races — the women’s and men’s downhill standing competition. Russian athletes are back competing under their own flag in the Winter Paralympics at Milan Cortina — after [...] Read More »