Canes end first half of season on high note

By Lethbridge Herald on December 17, 2025.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

The Lethbridge Hurricanes ended the first half of their season on a high note as they came back to beat the Edmonton Oil Kings 3-2 in overtime on Tuesday night at VisitLethbridge.com Arena.

“I liked our game from the start,”  said Ryan Aasman, Hurricanes assistant coach to Dustin Forbes of 106.7 Rock.

“I thought we started on time. The (Andrew) Petruk fight was really important for our group to tilt it and that’s a great job on him and I thought we took a step after that into the period really well. And obviously liked our second period, we were drawing penalties and outshot them, but seemed to have the ice tilted at times.”

Aasman felt the Canes were on their heels in the third period.

“Our group did a good job  holding tight and had one or two big penalty kills throughout the night that really helped us out,” said Aasman.

After a scoreless first period, it was the Oil Kings who got on the board first 4:16 into the second period when Miroslav Holinka’s quick shot off a Lukas Sawchyn pass from behind the net found its way in.

The Canes Easton Daneault evened the score when his wrist shot found its way through a crowd on the powerplay 13:40 into the second period from Will Scott and Luke Cozens.

Sawchyn walked into the slot after an Oil Kings faceoff win and beat Leif Oaten high on the glove side with a wrist shot 7:56 into the third period to give Edmonton a 2-1 lead.

Holinka assisted on Sawchyn’s 13^th goal of the year.

Kade Duell tied the game with 1:35 to go in the third period as he put a rebound into an empty net from Fraser Leonard and Owen Berge to send the game to overtime.

Matteo Fabrizi then redirected in the overtime winner off a  Cozens pass 44 seconds into the extra period to give Lethbridge the win.

Edmonton outshot Lethbridge 29-24 in the game.

The Canes went 1-for-5 while Edmonton  went 0-for-3 on the powerplay

The Hurricanes are now off on Christmas break and their next game will not be until they host the Medicine Hat Tigers on Dec. 27.