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By Troy Gillard

WHL Preseason

Rebels fall to Tigers in preseason action

Sep 13, 2019 | 9:45 PM

The Red Deer Rebels fell 5-3 to the Medicine Hat Tigers in WHL preseason action Friday night at the Westerner Park Centrium.

It was a game in which both teams stormed out quickly before things settled in through the final forty minutes.

Medicine Hat opened the scoring 6:42 into the game when Ryan Chyzowski tipped home a wrist shot past Rebels goalie Ethan Anders.

Arshdeep Bains tied it for Red Deer less than three minutes later when he parked himself in the slot and slapped home a rebound.

Zak Smith gave the Rebels their first lead at 11:32 with a shorthanded breakaway tally, tucking the puck through the five-hole of Tigers netminder Evan Fraudette.

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The Tigers roared back with two goals just nine seconds apart, Cole Sillinger with the first followed by Jonathan Brinkman Andersen, late in the period to make it a 3-3 game through 20 minutes.

Medicine Hat took a 4-3 lead 5:21 into period two on a nice power play snipe from Cole Clayton.

Chyzowski sealed the deal for Medicine Hat with a long distance empty net tally with a minute left to play in the third.

“I thought it was kind of a sloppy game. Young guys need to learn to keep their focus. There is no such thing as an easy game in this league,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter lectured afterward.

“The third goal can’t happen. That was a bad goal but again you don’t two points this time of year and I want this group to understand there needs to be preparation and focus every day.

“I didn’t think some of our young guys played well enough for us early on. I thought they got better on. I thought there was a few veterans who weren’t very good for us as well.”

Medicine Hat outshot Red Deer 31-24 on the night. The Tigers were 1-for-6 on the power play while the Rebels were 0-for-2.

The Rebels wrap up preseason play Saturday afternoon in Calgary (4 p.m.)