Pats in Medicine Hat Tonight
Regina Pats (16-15-3-0) @ Medicine Hat Tigers (18-10-2-4)
rTonight 7:30pm (8:30Regina Time) Medicine Hat Arena
r8:05 Pre-Game Show 620 CKRM
rNo Television Broadcast
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Head to Head
rThis is the second of four meetings between the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Regina Pats. The first meeting over a month ago in Regina was a high scoring affair that the Pats won 7-4. The power play was key, scoring 3 times on 5 opportunities with Matt Strueby scoring 2 of the man advantage goals with Jordan Eberle notching the other. Brett Leffler also scored twice while Garrett Mitchell and former Tiger, Cody Carlson scored singles.
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Who’s who:
rAs the first meeting of the season showed, the Tigers are a high flying hockey club, an they score a ton of goals…especially at home. Here’s who leads the way for the Tigers:
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Player: GP G A Pts.
rBretton Cameron 34 24 17 41
rLinden Vey 34 12 21 33
rWacey Hamilton 30 9 24 33
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The Pats have a pair of players in the WHL’s top ten scorers, an with his hat trick on Wednesday night, Matt Strueby has joined the top three scorers with the Pats:
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Player: GP G A Pts.
rJordan Eberle 26 28 31 59
rJordan Weal 33 16 33 49
rMatt Strueby 31 21 7 28
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Last Action:
rThe Pats were broadsided by a Kelowna Rocket team on Wednesday night that skated to both 6-0 and 7-1 leads, before cruising to a 9-5 win over the blue and white. Damien Ketlo was pulled halfway through the second after giving up 5 goals on 18 shots, while Dawson Guhle didn’t fare much better with 4 goals on 22 shots. Matt Strueby had his first career hat trick in the loss; Dominick Favreau scored his first of the season while Tomas Hricina picked up the other Pats goal.
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On the ice tonight:
rTonight is the highlight match-up in the WHL tonight with a pair of Eastern Conference playoff teams battling for position. There is 8 other games in the league tonight, including a game that can be seen on Access 7 tonight with Kamloops at Vancouver, it’s a 9:30 puck drop.
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New Faces:
rThe Pats have made a pair of trades the past couple of days with Carter Ashton and Craig Orfino coming from Lethbridge on Wednesday, they will make their Pats debut tonight. Yesterday, another deal sees Cass Mappin, Mitch Spooner and Mikael Jung coming to the Pats, they will make their debut later on the trip
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Next Action:
rThe Pats will take on a pair of former Pats in Linden Rowat and Graham Hood and the rest of the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Saturday night. A 7pm puck drop (8pm Regina time) with a 7:35 pre-game show on 620 CKRM.
