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The Medicine Hat Tigers couldn’t tickle twine Saturday night. The Tigers poured 33 shots on Carson Bjarnason but couldn’t solve the Brandon Wheat Kings net minder, falling 3-0 to the Philadelphia Flyers’ prospect’s sixth career WHL shutout. The loss snaps a three-game winning streak, they came into the contest off a 10-5 win Friday at [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Jr High Athletic Association anointed the B and C volleyball league champions this week. In Boys B, the Medicine Hat Christian School Warriors continued their winning ways in the league championship tournament. The Warriors went 25-1 this season and faced the 27-3 Irvine Tigers (Yellow Team) in the championship final. The [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Monsignor McCoy Colts won a battle of Medicine Hat on the gridiron Friday night. The Colts beat the Crescent Heights Vikings 39-0 in a consolation playoff game. McCoy came into the game off a 17-15 loss in the 4A semifinals to Chinook High School the week prior, Crescent Heights off a 37-6 loss [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb It took only one shift for the newest Medicine Hat Tiger to appreciate what fans have seen the last three seasons, Gavin McKenna is one of a kind. Newly signed forward Carter Cunningham recorded his first WHL goal Wednesday night in the first period of a 4-3 shootout win at Calgary over the Hitmen. [...] Read More »

The Medicine Hat Tigers padded the stat sheet on Friday in Regina, reaching double digits in a 10-5 blowout of the Pats. They came into the contest off a 4-3 shootout win Wednesday at Calgary over the Hitmen. Friday’s win marks a third in a row for the Tigers. Gavin McKenna, already leading the WHL [...] Read More »

DENVER (AP) – Russell Westbrook scored 21 points and played smothering defence on the final play of the game, and the Denver Nuggets edged the Toronto Raptors 121-119 on Monday night. Nikola Jokic had 28 points, 14 rebounds and 13 assists for his third triple-double in four games for Denver, which played without Jamal Murray [...] Read More »

Monday’s Scoreboard NHL New Jersey 3 Edmonton 0 Los Angeles 3 Nashville 0 — NFL Kansas City 30 Tampa Bay 24 (OT) — NBA Denver 121 Toronto 119 Boston 123 Atlanta 93 Detroit 115 L.A. Lakers 103 Cleveland 116 Milwaukee 114 Golden State 125 Washington 112 Brooklyn 106 Memphis 104 Sacramento 111 Miami 110 Utah [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – After going without a shutout for just the second time in his career last season, Jake Allen already has two for the New Jersey Devils in just five starts this year. Allen made 31 saves for the 26th shutout of his career as the Devils closed out their western Canadian trip with a [...] Read More »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Darcy Kuemper made 16 saves for his first shutout of the season and 32nd overall, helping the Los Angeles Kings beat the Nashville Predators 3-0 on Monday night. Adrian Kempe had a goal and an assist and Anze Kopitar and Kevin Fiala also scored. The Kings have won two of their [...] Read More »

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Patrick Mahomes threw for 291 yards and three touchdowns, and Kareem Hunt pounded into the end zone from two yards out in overtime to give the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs a 30-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night. DeAndre Hopkins had two touchdown receptions for the Chiefs [...] Read More »