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jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Dawson Seitz started his WHL career on the highest note. He’s looking to wrap his tenure the same way. The Medicine Hat product captured a WHL Championship as a 16-year-old in 2022 with the Edmonton Oil Kings, an experience he continues to lean on with the Prince George Cougars in his fifth and final [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com The Medicine Hat Tigers title defence started on the right note Friday night. The No. 2 seed Tigers rattled off five unanswered goals to beat the No. 7 seed Regina Pats 6-2 and take a 1-0 lead in the first-round series. Medicine Hat associate coach Joe Frazer liked the Tigers push back after trailing [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers have had their fair share of success against the Regina Pats over the past few seasons. The defending WHL Champions have won 11 straight games over the Regina Pats, dating back to the 2023-24 season, with the last loss a 5-4 overtime defeat to the East division foe on Jan. [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Andrew Basha has done a lot of reminiscing as of late. The Calgary Flames prospect says the Medicine Hat Tigers’ last game of the regular season, with 6,084 in attendance, brought back a lot of memories from his five seasons in the orange and black. “I remember the older guys talking to me when [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The WHL’s mid-season player survey tabbed Co-op Place as the fifth-hardest rink to play in as a road team. Having seen both sides of the ice, it’s a low ranking according to Luke Cozens. The former Lethbridge Hurricane was in the lineup for the Eastern Conference Finals series last year, getting to see the [...] Read More »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Texas Rangers scratched two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom from his scheduled start Saturday against the Phillies because of neck stiffness. The Rangers gave left-hander Jacob Latz the start. Latz failed to win a spot in the rotation out of spring training. He’s pitched mostly out of the bullpen in [...] Read More »

PARIS (AP) — Senegal players paraded the Africa Cup of Nations trophy in front of thousands of fans on Saturday, despite the Confederation of African Football’s decision to strip the country of the title and award it to Morocco. Ahead of a friendly match against Peru at Stade de France, Senegal players led by captain [...] Read More »

PRAGUE — Canada’s Stephen Gogolev finished fourth in men’s singles with another impressive performance Saturday at the world figure skating championships. Fifth after Thursday’s short program, Gogolev scored a personal-best 186.66 in his free skate to “Piano Concerto No. 2” by Sergei Rachmaninov to move up one spot. That lifted his total to 281.04 — [...] Read More »

BERGA, Spain (AP) — British rider Tom Pidcock has pulled out of the Volta a Catalunya race a day after crashing and falling down a ravine after misjudging a corner. “Due to his crash he suffered injuries, most likely bone and ligament damage in particular to his right knee and also right wrist,” Lorenz Emmert, [...] Read More »

GÄLLIVARE — Reece Howden won the men’s silver medal and fellow Canadian Hannah Schmidt took the women’s bronze Saturday in the penultimate ski cross races of the World Cup season. Howden, from Chilliwack, B.C., posted a time of 57.36 seconds, just behind winner David Mobaerg of Sweden. Kilian Himmelsbach of Germany was third in 58.26. [...] Read More »