Medicine Hat Cubs close preseason with two wins over Wheatland Kings
The Heritage Junior Hockey League champions outscored the Kings 12-6 across a home-and-home weekend series ahead of their regular season opener.
The Medicine Hat Cubs finished their preseason with back-to-back victories over the Agra Risk Wheatland Kings, winning 6-2 on Sunday after a 6-5 win in Strathmore the day before.
In Sunday's game, the Cubs dominated shot totals 48-17. Emery Medicine Shield scored for the Kings just 1:22 into the contest and again with six seconds left, but six different Cubs players scored in between, including Colby Gulliver, Brodie Heimbecker, Jaxon Bohrn, Ryker Watson, Josiah Jackson and Treyden Kleinknecht. Goaltender Kayden Van Ham stopped 15 shots for the win, while the Cubs went 1-for-5 on the power play and killed nine penalties in a game that saw 90 penalty minutes handed out.
On Saturday in Strathmore, the Cubs built a 4-0 lead through goals from Lucas Dulle, Reeve Zacharias, Randen Collier and Jacob Hazzard before the Kings tied the game by early in the third period. Nolen Sutherland put the Cubs back ahead 5-4, and Kleinknecht scored the eventual winner just over a minute later to make it 6-4. The Kings added a short-handed goal from Charlie Goll late in the period. Goaltender Hudson Corbett made 19 saves on 24 shots for Medicine Hat.
The Cubs open the Heritage Junior Hockey League regular season with two home games at Kinplex 1 Arena, aiming to defend the league title they won for the first time in 2025-26.
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