GAME DAY: Hurricanes Kick of Three-Straight Against Tigers
Lethbridge, AB – The Lethbridge Hurricanes will open a stretch of three-straight games against the Medicine Hat Tigers tonight at 7:00pm at Co-op Place.
The Hurricanes (27-17-3-2) had their three-game winning streak end on Friday with a 3-2 loss to the Regina Pats at the ENMAX Centre. Tyson Laventure and Logan Wormald scored in the defeat while Bryan Thomson made 22-saves. Lethbridge had their six-game home point streak end with the loss. The Hurricanes enter tonight with a record of 5-2-3-0 in their last ten games and are 12-9-2-0 on the road.
The Tigers (19-21-7-1) enter on a six-game point streak having gone 4-0-2-0 in their last six outings. Medicine Hat is coming off a come-from-behind 6-4 win in Regina against the Pats last Sunday. The Tigers scored four goals in the third period en route to the victory. Medicine Hat has posted an 8-10-3-1 record at home this season.
Tonight will be the sixth of eight meetings on the meeting between the Hurricanes and Tigers; Lethbridge has posted a 4-1-0-0 record against Medicine Hat this season having won the last four meetings. Tonight’s game can be watched at Browns Socialhouse in Lethbridge, on WHL Live or heard on 106.7 ROCK.
DOWNLOAD GAME NOTES/STATS HERE: 2023-02-03 – LET at MH
VS. TIGERS: Tonight will be the sixth of eight head-to-head meetings between the Hurricanes and Tigers. The Hurricanes have posted a 4-1-0-0 record against the Tigers this season, having won the last four meetings. Last year, Lethbridge was a perfect 8-0-0-0 against Medicine Hat, marking the first time in franchise history the ‘Canes swept the season series against the Tigers. Lethbridge has posted an all-time record of 136-142-5-10 with 7 ties against Medicine Hat.
2022-2023 REGULAR SEASON SERIES
September 24th/2022 – at Medicine Hat (9-1 MH)
September 30th/2022 – at Lethbridge (5-4 LET)
November 5th/2022 – at Medicine Hat (3-2 LET)
December 9th/2022 – at Lethbridge (5-3 LET)
December 27th/2022 – at Lethbridge (3-2 LET)
February 4th/2023 – at Medicine Hat
February 10th/2023 – at Lethbridge
February 11th/2023 – at Medicine Hat
2021-2022 REGULAR SEASON SERIES:
November 19th/2021 – at Lethbridge (7-3 LET)
December 17th/2021 – at Lethbridge (6-4 LET)
December 18th/2021 – at Medicine Hat (5-3 LET)
January 15th/2022 – at Medicine Hat (6-3 LET)
February 19th/2022 – at Medicine Hat (2-1 LET)
February 26th/2022 – at Lethbridge (9-2 LET)
April 1st/2022 – at Lethbridge (6-3 LET)
April 2nd/2022 – at Medicine Hat (6-1 LET)
2022-2023 REGULAR SEASON STATS LEADERS:
Goals (19) – Logan Wormald
Assists (24) – Cole Shepard
Points (41) – Cole Shepard
PIMS (69) – Joe Arntsen
Plus/Minus (+14) – Chase Pauls
Wins (19) – Harrison Meneghin
Shutouts (1) – Harrison Meneghin
Save % (.926) – Bryan Thomson
Goals Against Average (2.20) – Bryan Thomson
WHO’S HOT:
– Blake Swetlikoff has points in 4 straight games (2g-4a); 13 of 17 games (7g-13a)
– Tyson Laventure has points in 2 straight games (1g-1a); 4 of 6 games (2g-3a); 15 of 21 games (13g-11a)
– Hayden Smith has points in 3 of 4 games (5g-2a); 4 of 6 games (6g-3a); 5 of 11 games (7g-2a)
– Logan Wormald has points in 2 of 3 games (1g-2a); 5 of 8 games (4g-2a); 8 of 17 games (8g-3a)
– Tristen Doyle has points in 2 of 3 games (3a); 7 of 14 games (2g-6a)
– Nolan Bentham has points in 2 of 3 games (1g-2a); 3 of 5 games (1g-3a)
– Trae Wilke has points in 2 of 3 games (2a); 3 of 5 games (3a)
– Anton Astashevich has points in 2 of 4 games (2g-2a); 6 of 13 games (4g-5a); 10 of 25 games (4g-9a)
– Joe Arntsen has points in 3 of 5 games (1g-3a); 5 of 8 games (2g-4a)
– Chase Pauls has points in 2 of 4 games (2a); 5 of 11 games (1g-4a)
– Cole Shepard has points in 4 of 8 games (4g-3a); 6 of 11 games (4g-6a); 29 of 47 games (17g-24a)
– Jett Jones has points in 2 of 5 games (1g-3a); 4 of 8 games (2g-3a); 23 of 37 games (13g-21a)
– Miguel Marques has points in 4 of 10 games (3g-1a); 7 of 16 games (3g-5a); 12 of 28 games (5g-8a)
REGULAR SEASON MILESTONE WATCH:
– Logan McCutcheon is 6 games away from 150 career games
– Chase Pauls is 9 games away from 150 career games
– Chase Pauls is 7 points away from 50 career points
– Nolan Bentham is 3 games away from 150 career games
– Joe Arntsen is 17 games away from 200 career games
– Anton Astashevich is 9 games away from 100 career games
– Brayden Edwards is 3 games away from 100 career games
– Cole Shepard is 10 points away from 100 career points
– Tyson Laventure is 12 points away from 100 career points
NEWS & NOTES:
Thru 49: The Hurricanes enter tonight with a record of 27-17-3-2 (59 points) on the season after 49 games. The ‘Canes are 15-8-1-2 at home while posting a record of 12-9-2-0 on the road. In 2021-2022, Lethbridge had gone 22-24-1-2 after 49 contests. Lethbridge 6-2-3-1 in January and are 1-1-0-0 in February.
Hot Hand: Hurricanes forward Hayden Smith is red-hot entering tonight’s game having racked up seven points (5g-2a) in his last four games. The Chetwynd, BC, product had just seven points on the season prior to the last four outings. He netted his first career four-point game, including his first ever hat-trick, on January 29th in Edmonton in a 10-2 win over the Oil Kings at Rogers Place.
Cen-tendy: Overage goaltender Bryan Thomson became just the eighth netminder in Hurricanes history to play 100+ games with his victory over the Winnipeg ICE on January 27th. He is the first to reach the 100-game mark since Stuart Skinner, who is the all-time leader (182GP). Thomson also became just the seventh goaltender in ‘Canes history to reach the 50-win mark after earning a 35-save performance in a 4-1 win against his hometown Moose Jaw Warriors on February 1st at the ENMAX Centre.
Streakin’: The Hurricanes enter play tonight having posted a 6-2-3-1 record in their last 12 game. Lethbridge has posted a 22-9-3-2 record in their last 37 games. The ‘Canes are equally as hot on home ice having gone an impressive 13-5-1-2 in their last 21 games on home ice while going 9-4-2-0 in their last 15 games away from home.
Strong PK: Entering tonight, the Hurricanes have allowed just six power play goals against in their last 17 games having killed 53-of-59 penalties taken in that span for a kill rate of 89.8%. Oppositions have gone just 11-for-80 in the last 23 games – resulting in an 86.3% kill rate for the Hurricanes in that span.
Central Scouting: A trio of Hurricanes – Noah Chadwick (147th), Logan Wormald (160th) and Harrison Meneghin (27th) – were ranked among North American Skaters and Goaltenders by the NHL Central Scouting Service’s Midterm Rankings. Chadwick and Wormald were ranked as ‘C’ Skaters on the Preliminary Players to Watch List while Meneghin was previously unranked.
Rookie Tendy: Hurricanes netminder Harrison Meneghin enters tonight with a 19-9-2-1 record, sitting one win shy of becoming the 14th goalie in ‘Canes history to reach 20-wins in a season – he would become just the fourth rookie goaltender to reach that mark. He enters tonight 17-6-2-1 record in his last 26 starts.
Faceoff King: Jett Jones enters tonight as the WHL leader in faceoffs taken this season with 1,221 draws taken, averaging 25.0 draws per game. Jones has won 20+ faceoffs in a game four times this season, becoming the first Hurricanes centre-man to accomplish that feat on four occasions since the WHL began tracking faceoffs in 2017, surpassing Jake Leschyshyn and Giorgio Estephan – who both did it twice.
