The Medicine Hat Tigers defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 6-3 Tuesday night at the Medicine Hat Arena in Medicine Hat, Alberta. This was the third game of the T-Birds six-game road trip through the Central Division.
The T-Birds face the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday night at 6pm at the Enmax Centre. They finish off the road with games on Friday, November 11, against the Lethbridge Hurricanes and on Saturday, November 12, against the Kootenay Ice.
Seattle (5-10-0-0) jumped out front 1-0 early in the first period on Burke Gallimore’s seventh goal of the year. Gallimore scored at 1:34 of the opening period on assists from Brendan Rouse and Chance Lund. Rouse extended his assist streak to three games with the assist on the T-Birds first goal.
Medicine Hat (14-5-1-0) tied the game 1-1 at 3:37 of the first on a goal from Hunter Shinkaruk. Emerson Etem and Matthew Konan had the assists.
The Tigers went in front 2-1 at 15:07 of the first when Curtis Valk scored. Alex Theriau and Konan were credited with the assists
Etem scored a power-play goal with 14 seconds left in the first to put the Tigers in front 3-1. Shinkaruk and Reid Petryk got the assists.
Medicine Hat outshot Seattle 13-9 in the first period.
Shinkaruk scored at 7:32 of the second period to extend the Tigers lead to 4-1. James Bettauer and goaltender Tyler Bunz had the assists.
The T-Birds outshot the Tigers 7-5 in the second period. The Tigers led in total shots after two periods though, 21-16.
Medicine Hat scored 39 seconds into the third period to extend their lead to 5-1. Trevor Cox came out of the penalty box, right as Etem headed up the left side of the ice, to give the Tigers a two-on-one. Etem passed the puck to Cox and he put a shot off the post and in for the goal.
Daniel Cotton replaced Calvin Pickard in Seattle’s net after Medicine Hat’s fifth goal. Pickard stopped 17 of 22 shots and had his record drop to 5-9-0-0 with the loss.
Rouse put back a rebound on the power play at 6:22 of the third period to the T-Birds second goal. Dave Sutter sent the puck to Connor Sanvido at the left point. Sanvido worked the puck down wall and took a shot on Bunz with Rouse to the goalie’s right. The puck rebound off Bunz to Rouse and he slammed the puck past the Medicine Hat goalie for his first goal of the year.
Sutter cut the Tigers lead to two goals when he beat Bunz with a slap shot from the top of the right circle at 10:39 of the third. Marcel Noebels and Sanvido had the assists on Sutter’s second goal of the year.
The T-Bird pulled Cotton for an extra attacker with over two minutes left in the game to try and tie the game. Etem scored an empty-net goal at 18:35 of the third to ice the game for the Tigers. Dylan Busenius had the only assist on the goal.
Medicine Hat outshot Seattle 30-26 in the game.
Cotton faced seven shots and stopped all of them.
Bunz made 17 saves on 22 shots and his record improved to 13-4-1-0 with the win.
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2011-12 season are available online at the T-Birds website and at the ShoWare Center box office. The ShoWare Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday game days at 10 a.m. and Sunday game days at noon.
T-Birds season tickets are currently on sale. Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.
SCORING SUMMARY
First period – 1, Seattle, Gallimore 7 (Rouse, Lund), 1:34. 2, Medicine Hat, Shinkaruk 19 (Etem, Konan), 3:37. 3, Medicine Hat, Valk 1 (Theriau, Konan), 15:07. 4, Medicine Hat, Etem 24 (Shinkaruk, Petryk), 19:40 (pp). Penalties – Elliot, Sea (boarding), 4:43. Machacek, Sea (roughing), 15:07. Machacek, Sea (roughing), 18:35.
Second period – 5, Medicine Hat, Shinkaruk 20 (Bettauer, Bunz), 7:32. Penalties -Hickman, Sea (roughing), 6:15. Jensen, MH (roughing), 6:15. Verdino, Sea (cross checking, major-fighting), 11:28 Hickman, Sea (major-fighting, game misconduct), 11:28. Bredo, MH (instigator, major-fighting, 10-minute misconduct), 11:28. Jensen, MH (major-fighting, game misconduct), 11:28. Machacek, Sea (tripping), 11:58. Cox, MH (tripping), 18:31.
Third period – 6, Medicine Hat, Cox 3 (Etem, Valk), :49. 7, Seattle, Rouse 1 (Sanvido, Sutter), 6:22 (pp). 8, Seattle, Sutter 2 (Noebels, Sanvido), 10:39. 9, Medicine Hat, Etem 25 (Busenius), 18:35 (en). Penalties – Konan, MH (tripping), 5:02. Machacek, Sea (10-minute misconduct), 19:59.
Shots on goal – Seattle 9-7-10 26. Medicine Hat 13-5-9 30. Goalies – Seattle, Pickard 22 shots-17 saves (5-9-0-0), Cotton 7-7; Medicine Hat, Bunz 26-23 (13-4-1-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-2; Medicine Hat 1-4. A – 4,006. Referee – Devin Klein. Linesmen – Greg Sarauer, Matt Sanders.
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