With a regulation win, the Rebels would have pulled within one point of the Tigers for the Central Division lead. Instead they fell four points back of their provincial rivals. They should almost get relegated to Junior C after that showing in the last period especially. Up 4-1 after 40 minutes, the Rebels surrendered three third-period goals and eventually dropped a 5-4 WHL overtime decision to the Medicine Hat Tigers. (The Rebels coach Derek Walser only gave them credit for 30 minutes.)
Jhett Larson gets the Rebels on the board at 8:42 of the first period with the assist going to Kai Uchacz.– At 8:42 into the game, Jhett Larson initiated the scoring for Red Deer with a precise shot straight from a faceoff, courtesy of Kai Uchacz’s puck retrieval.
Tomas Mrsic scores his 14th goal of the season on the Power Play at 11:40 of the first frame. The assists on the goal went to Oasiz Wiesblatt and Gavin McKenna.– Three minutes later, Tomas Mrsic leveled the score for the home team with a power play goal, firing a one-timer from the right circle after receiving a cross-ice pass from Wiesblatt.
Kalan Lind pots his 13th goal of the season on the Power Play with just 20 seconds left in the first period to make it a 2-1 Rebels game. The assists on the goal went to Kai Uchacz and Mats Lindgren.– The visitors, however, regained their lead with a man advantage tally of their own in the final minute of the period as Uchacz circled in the high slot and fed Kalan Lind at the side of the crease for a back door goal.
Shots on goal in the first period were 15-11 for Medicine Hat.
Frantisek Formanek gave the Rebels a 3-1 lead at 4:32 of the second period with the assists on the goal to Jace Weir and Samuel Drancak.– Early in the second period, the Rebels extended their lead to 3-1 as Frantisek Formanek seized a turnover in the Tigers’ zone, dashed towards the net, and skillfully backhanded the puck past goaltender Zach Zahara.
Carson Birnie scored on the Power Play to make it a 4-1 Rebels game at 5:48 of the second period. The assists on the goal went to Hunter Mayo and Kai Uchacz.–Then, just 76 seconds later, Carson Birnie redirected a point shot by Hunter Mayo past Zahara with Red Deer on the power play.
Shots in the second period were 10-6 for the Tigers.
For a team that doesn’t have any Russian or French players the Rebels sure really only like to show up for certain sections of the game and then take the rest of the night off. Part time hockey. So after that goal they got 4 thats enough lets quit. We hit quota. It wasn’t all that bad as The Rebels killed a full two-minute Tigers’ power play to start the third period, before they decided to give up, so there is that.
2007 born Calgary native Hayden Harsanyi got his 11th goal of the season from former Brooks Bandit Jack Kachkowski and 20 year old Latvian Bogdans Hodass at 4:05 of the third frame.– Hayden Harsanyi jammed the puck home from the side of the net at the 4:05 mark after some poor clearing by the visitors. Gavin McKenna completed a give-and-go with Oasiz Wiesblatt just under five minutes later to cut Red Deer’s lead to a single goal.
Gavin McKenna makes it a 4-3 game when he scores his 23rd goal of the season at 8:57 of the third period with the assist going to Oasiz Wiesblatt and 16 year old Jack Kachkowski.
Andrew Basha ties the game up with 1:57 left in the game with the assists going to Tyler MacKenzie and Oasiz Wiesblatt.–The Tigers kept coming and pulled even with 1:57 remaining in regulation time when Andrew Basha scored off a broken faceoff play in the Red Deer end.
Shots in the third period were 15-3 for the Tigers. It almost makes you wonder if the Rebels were even on the ice for the third period.
Bogdans Hodass, the Euro defenseman with the cool name, finalized the Tigers’ comeback in overtime’s final 20 seconds. He received a drop pass from Hunter St. Martin and rifled a high shot from 30 feet out, beating netminder Chase Wutzke.
Rocky View, Alberta native Zach Zahara made 18 saves on the 22 shots that he faced for the win for the Tigers. While Chase Wutzke made 39 saves on the 44 shots that he faced in net with the Rebels.
Three Stars of the game were 1) Bogdans Hodass 2) Gavin McKenna 3) Oasiz Wiesblatt
Attendance at Co-op place “way outside of the city limits” that everyone there bitches about it 24/7 from Medicine Hat was 3,739
Rebels next game is Tuesday February 13th against the Calgary Hitmen in Red Deer.
