Hurricanes need shootout to beat Rebels

By Lethbridge Herald on November 18, 2022.

Herald photo by Justin Seward Lethbridge Hurricanes goalie Harrison Meneghin makes a point blank save off of the Red Deer Rebels’ Kai Uchacz during WHL action Friday night at the Enmax Centre.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

Noah Chadwick was the shootout hero for the Lethbridge Hurricanes, as his goal was the difference in a 3-2 win over the Red Deer Rebels on Friday night at the Enmax Centre.

Chadwick scored the only goal in the shootout while Canes goalie Harrison Meneghin saved all three Rebel shots to preserve the win for Lethbridge.

“That’s a battle,” said assistant coach Matt Anholt to Dustin Forbes of 106.7 Rock.

“They’re obviously a heavy team. They’re one of our biggest rivals for a reason and that was a good… kind of a playoff feel. It was tight checking, both teams were physical, both goalies were good.”

The Hurricanes had to kill off a Cole Shepard interference penalty in overtime and Forbes had asked Anholt about Jett Jones’ work on that penalty kill.

“There’s no surprise he wears the ‘C’ for a performance like that ,” said Anholt.

“He blocks one off the hand and then he waves off the bench like he doesn’t want to change. It’s just the type of kid he is.”

Mats Lindgren of the Rebels opened the scoring at 2:40 of the first period, as he shovelled in a pass in tight past Meneghin.

Jayden Grubbe and Jace Isley  drew the assists on Lindgren’s second goal of the season.

Tyson Zimmer pounced on a rebound from a  Nolan Bentham point shot and slid the puck past Rebels goalie Kyle Kelsey at 16:16 of the opening frame on the powerplay to tie the game.

Tristan Zandee had the other assist on Zimmer’s goal.

Logan Wormald was sprung on a breakaway right out of the penalty box and he made no mistake for his seventh  goal of the season at 10:30  of the second period from Zimmer and Hayden Smith to give Lethbridge the 2-1 lead.

Red Deer captain Grubbe converted on a wraparound at 1:07 of the third to tie the game at two from Hunter Mayo and Frantisek Formanek.

The Hurricanes are 6-0-0-1 in their last seven and improved their overall record to 11-8-0-1.

Meneghin saved 35 of 37 shots and counterpart Kyle Kelsey stopped 33 of 35 Canes shots.

The Hurricanes will host the Edmonton Oil Kings tonight at the Enmax Centre.