Canes defeat Tigers in wild affair

By Lethbridge Herald on November 6, 2024.

Herald photo by Justin Seward Lethbridge Hurricanes goalie Brady SmithÕs mask pops off as he covers the puck while Oasis Wiesblatt of the Medicine Hat Tigers and Logan McCutcheon battle in front of the net during WHL action at VisitLethbridge.com Arena on Wednesday night.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

Cameron Norrie scored the game-winner with 7:46 to go in the game to lift the Lethbridge Hurricanes to a 7-6 win over Medicine Hat Tigers in the first meeting of the season between the Highway 3 rivals on Wednesday night at the VisitLethbridge.com Arena.

Noah Chadwick and Landen Ward assisted on the game winner.

“I (was) just saying I don’t remember the last time we’ve won a game like that where we’ve found a way to score on command and had the fire power to do it,” said Ryan Aasman, Hurricanes assistant coach to Dustin Forbes of 106.7 Rock.

“I thought in the third period we just did a good job (of) kind of just bearing down. And right before Norrie scored, you could hear the bench talking about there was about three line changes there where we just kept putting pucks (in) better places and putting pucks behind them and then bang, (the) puck (went) towards the net off a funny bounce and it’s in but it took time to wear them down.”

The game began with Jonas Woo’s seeing-eye shot finding its way into the net to open the  scoring on the powerplay and give the Tigers an early 1-0 lead at the 4:34 mark of the first period from Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll and Kadon McCann.

Logan McCutcheon tied the game 2:22 later when his shot bounced off Harrison Meneghin’s blocker and in from Shane Smith and Kooper Gizowski.

Leo Braillard gave the Canes a 2-1 lead when he tapped one in at the far post on the powerplay at the 11:22 mark of the first period from Gizowski and Miguel Marques.

The Tigers’ Andrew Basha roofed a shorthanded goal over Brady Smith to tie the game at two with just over two minutes to go in the first period.

Gavin McKenna gave Medicine Hat a 3-2 lead with 19 seconds to go in the first period from Oasiz Wiesblatt.

The fans were treated to a six-goal second period.

The Canes drew first blood in the second period when Brayden Edwards found the back of the net for his seventh goal of the year from Logan Wormald and Chadwick to tie the game at three just 2:25 into the second period.

Bryce Pickford scored on the powerplay 3:19 into the second to give Medicine Hat a 4-3 lead from McKenna and Wiesblatt.

Wiesblatt gave the Tigers a 5-3 lead with his sixth goal of the season from McKenna and Matt Paranych at the 5:15 mark of the second period.

The visitors took a three-goal lead when Hunter St. Martin scored a shorthanded marker 7:40 into the second period.

Kash Andresen notched his fourh of the season on the powerplay to bring the Canes to within two goals at the 9:04 mark of the second from Will Sharpe and McCutcheon.

The Canes scored their second straight powerplay goal to make the score 6-5 with under three minutes to go in the second, as Wormald scored his ninth of the season from Marques and Edwards.

Braillard’s tied the game at 6-6 when he scored his second of the night at the 6:29 mark of the third period from Shane Smith and Koen Cleaver.

Lethbridge went 3-for-7 and the Tigers went 2-for-4 on the powerplay.

The Tigers outshot the Canes 34-25 in the game.

The Canes (9-5-1) begin a three-game road trip in Moose Jaw on Friday night.