{"id":496966,"date":"2026-02-24T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496966\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:55:11","slug":"medicine-hat-tigers-battle-edmonton-oil-kings-as-central-divison-race-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496966\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat Tigers battle Edmonton Oil Kings as Central Divison race heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medicine Hat enters with points in each of their last seven games and riding a three-game win streak.<\/p>\n

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Their last regulation loss came back on February 4th on home ice to Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Oil Kings enter with just two wins over their last six games and dropped back-to-back games this past weekend in Regina<\/a> and Bra<\/a>ndon while being outscored a combined 13-6.<\/p>\n

In the regular season head-to-head, both clubs hold a 3-2-0-1 record.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will be without three of their six starting defenseman, with Veeti Vaisanen<\/a>, Niilopekka Muhonen<\/a>, and Jonas Woo<\/a> all not making the trip to Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Vaisanen and Muhonen are rehabbing from injury while Woo is serving a suspension for a match penalty that was assessed in Saturday night\u2019s 4-3 win<\/a> over the Lethbridge Hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Puck drop from inside Rogers Place<\/a> is scheduled for 7:00 p.m MST.<\/p>\n

The pre-game show gets underway at 6:45 p.m on WILD 94.5 FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat enters with points in each of their last seven games and riding a three-game win streak.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-496966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}