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The Medicine Hat Tigers ran into a sharp Evan Gardner in the Saskatoon Blades net Tuesday night. Medicine Hat, starting a four-game in five night streak, fired 34 shots on the Columbus Blue Jackets’ prospect net minder who held off the visiting Tigers for a 5-3 Blades’ win at the SaskTel Centre. Gardner made 31 [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club sent 25 swimmers to Cochrane this weekend. The local swim club raced against six other teams at the third annual Cochrane Comets Cup. Here are the local results. Nayla Berg (12): Had six new best times, finishing first in 50m breast and 100m breast, second in 50m back and [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Cubs picked up a pair of wins on the road this weekend. The Cubs beat the Red Deer Vipers 5-3 on Saturday, topping the Rocky Rams 9-4 on Sunday. In Saturday’s win, all five Medicine Hat goals were scored by a different Cub. Kyle Woolridge, Jesse Klimosko, Mason Osinski, Nolen Sutherland [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb For the first time in 25 years, a local team was the last one standing at the Medicine Hat Hockey Hounds U15AAA tournament. The Medicine Hat U15AAA South East Athletic Club Tigers were victorious this weekend, beating the Balgonie Prairie Storm 4-3 Sunday to win the 51st Hounds tournament, the first Medicine Hat champion [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U18AA Hounds had a winning weekend at home. They kicked the weekend off with a 4-3 win over the East Kootenay Avalanche on Saturday. Grady Ford had a goal and an assist, all three of Parker Kienzle, Davin Torgerson and Colby Motz found the back of the net. Kolter Gans made [...] Read More »

WINNIPEG – Mark Scheifele recorded his ninth career hat trick to lead the Winnipeg Jets past the Florida Panthers 6-3 on Tuesday to end their two-game losing skid. Kyle Connor had a goal and assist and Morgan Barron scored his first two goals of the season shorthanded into an empty net. Josh Morrissey and Nikolaj [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist to lead his Edmonton Oilers to a 5-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. Evan Bouchard, Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had the other goals for the Oilers (10-8-2), who were coming off a 3-0 loss in Montreal on Monday. Tim Stutzle and Josh [...] Read More »

TORONTO – Jacob Shaffelburg scored twice and Jonathan David moved into top spot among Canadian men’s goal-scorers as Canada blanked Suriname 3-0 on Tuesday for a 4-0 aggregate win in their two-legged CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal. The 35th-ranked Canadian men beat No. 136 Suriname 1-0 in Paramaribo on Friday, thanks to an 82nd-minute goal by [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was optimistic about the vision of a centrally located arena becoming reality for the Ottawa Senators following a day packed with meetings, tours and discussions. Bettman said progress was made with the Senators’ recent letter of intent with the National Capital Commission regarding the LeBreton Flats site, a prime [...] Read More »

Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy won National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday after a stellar debut season with the Brewers, while Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt took the AL honors honor after leading the Guardians to 92 wins and a division title in his first year as a skipper at any level. Murphy, 65, led the Brewers [...] Read More »