Black and White Intrasquad Game

Black and White Intrasquad Roster. I assume the 15's will get sent down after right after with the conclusion of Main Camp.

Team White	Hockey Age	Team Black	Hockey Age
Riley Morris	16	Kyle Cheema	16
Bo Didur	16	Brock Hamm	16
Brad Forrest	16	Nathyn Mortlock	17
Connor Sutton	19	Mitchell Dyck	16
Ty Stanton	18	Matt Staples	18
Gabe Bast	17	Spenser Jensen	19
Ryan Jevne	15	Caleb Fantillo	15
Gavin Broadhead	18	Steven Owre	17
Chase Olson	16	Kyle Becker	19
Riley Wozniak	17	Jordan Taupert	15
Jordan Xavier	16	Markus Eisenschmid	18
Mason Shaw	15	Bake Penner	17
Trevor Cox	18	Matt Bradley	16
Cole Sanford	18	Logan McVeigh	19
Curtis Valk	20	Boston Leier	20
David Quenneville	15	Justin Young	16
Chad Butcher	17	Mark Rassell	16
Chas Labelle	18	Connor Hobbs	16
Scott Allan	17	Jake Doty	20
Alex Mowbray	17	Adam Smith	19

Not Dressed

Dylan Bredo, Zach Hodder, Tyler LEwington, Maaek Langhamer, Miles Koules, Hunter Shinaruk, Kellan Williams, Zac Robidoux, Ty Schultz, Jake Fletcher, Brayden Uhrich, Marshall Skapski

Who did you like?  Its hard to get used to 35+ players in one short evening. A couple newcomers I liked were Scott Allan and Brad Forrest on Defense.  Who did you like?

NHL Invite List

NHL Teams are starting to release their training Camp Rosters. I'll keep this updated.

Curtis Valk and Jake Doty received Invites from St. Louis.
Spenser Jensen has an invite to San Jose.
Ty Stanton has an invite to Winnipeg


Drafted
Marek Langhamer - Phoenix Coyotes (Training Camp)
Tyler Lewington - Washington Capitals (Training Camp)


Signed Players
Hunter Shinkaruk - Vancouver Canucks (Training Camp Camp)


Free Agents
Jake Doty - St. Louis Blues (Traverse City Prospect Camp) (Edmonton Summer Development Camp)
Curtis Valk - St. Louis Blues  (Traverse City Prospect Camp)
Miles Koules - Minnesota Wild (Traverse City Prospects Camp)
Matt Staples - Dallas (Summer Development Camp)
Boston Leier - Washington (Summer Development Camp)
Spenser Jensen - San Jose (Training Camp)
Ty Stanton - Winnipeg (Training Camp)
Kyle Becker - Anaheim

Others

Jayden Hart was invited to Boston's Camp
Reid Petryk - Oilers Rookie Camp
Rhyse Dieno - Minnesota

Edit: I jumped the gun on Cam Lanigan attending detroit's camp. Detroit hasn't named their prospect roster yet, and Lanigan was mentioned as a prospect who's rights aren't owned by the team and didn't attend their July Camp....My apologies.

Training Camp Times

This was released by the Tigers on Monday.
http://www.tigershockey.com/article/tigers-training-camp-kicks-off-thursday/146947

Thursday, August 22, 2013
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm                          Rookie Camp Players Registration and Photo 
                                                      (Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, 401 – 1 Street SE)
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm                          Players/Parents Meeting (Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, 401 – 1 Street SE)
                                                     
                                                     
Friday, August 23, 2013                 
8:30 am – 10:45 am                         Scrimmage Team Black vs. Team White
9:00 am – 10:00 am                         Team Orange Fitness Test
11:00 am – 12:00 pm                       Practice Team Orange

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm                          Vets Ice

4:00 pm – 6:15 pm                          Scrimmage Team Black vs. Team Orange
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm                          Team White Fitness Test
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm                          Practice Team White


Saturday, August 24, 2013             
8:30 am – 10:45 am                         Scrimmage Team White vs. Team Orange
9:00 am – 10:00 am                         Team Black Fitness Test
11:00 am – 12:00 pm                       Practice Team Black


12:30 pm – 1:30 pm                         Goalie Session

1:00 pm                                          Vets Head and Shoulder Photos

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm                          Vets Ice

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm                          Scrimmage Team Black vs. Team White
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm                          Scrimmage Team White vs. Team Orange
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm                          Scrimmage Team Black vs. Team Orange

Player releases to be done following each afternoon ice session today


Sunday, August 25, 2013
9:00 am –11:30 am                          Top 40 Game
Individual player interviews following today’s Top 40 Game


Rookie Camp Concludes


2013 - 14 Medicine Hat Tigers Main Training Camp Schedule

Sunday, August 25, 2013
3:00 pm                                          Registration/Weigh In/Heights
3:30 pm                                          Player/Parent Meeting
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm                          Team A Fitness Test
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm                          Team B Practice
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm                          Team A Practice
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm                          Team B Fitness Test

Monday, August 26, 2013
9:00 am – 10:00 am                         Practice Team Orange 
11:00 am – 1:00 pm                         Scrimmage Team Black vs. Team White

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm                          Goalie Session

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm                          Pros Ice

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm                          Practice Team Black 
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm                          Scrimmage Team White vs. Team Orange

Tuesday, August 27, 2013
9:00 am – 10:00 am                         Practice Team White 
11:00 am – 1:00 pm                         Scrimmage Team Black vs. Team Orange
Releases to be done following each morning ice session today

11:30 am – 12:30 pm                       Pros Ice

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm                          Scrimmage Team A vs. Team B

Wednesday, August 28, 2013
9:00 am – 10:00 am                         Team A Practice 
10:15 am – 11:15 am                       Team B Practice

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm                          Pros Ice

7:00 pm                                          Intra squad Black & White game

Main Camp Concludes

All Times at the Family Leisure Centre

The arena is on schedule to be ready for the first home game of the regular season, however the exhibition game against Swift Current will be played in the Kinplex.

Looking at the twitter feeds quite a few of the vets used Monday as a travel day to get back to Medicine Hat. The Tigers season gets underway in Lethbridge in exactly one month of this post.

Medicine Hat Mavericks

Just wanted to give a shout-out to the Medicine Hat Mavericks. They had one heck of a season!

They lost in the Championship Finals with a 4-1 game 4 Loss to the Melville Millionaires.
Melville Took the Series 3-1.

The only 2 times these teams met in the regular season the Mavs won 12-4, and 11-6

The Mavs had a standout season posting the best ever record in the WMBL going 39-7 in the Regular Season and a 7-3 record in the playoffs. They never lost more than 1 game in a row until they met Melville in the playoffs.

Grant Silva set a new wmbl record with 37 stolen bases.

Congratulations on a Very Good Season!

Tigers Make a Small Trade

Medicine Hat Tigers announce this afternoon they have traded the playing rights of 20-year-old defenceman Garrett Haar to the Portland Winterhawks.

The Tigers will receive a conditional pick in 2014 bantam draft.
Haar, who was on the Tiger’s College List,- played the last two years for Western Michigan University Broncos.

This leaves the Tigers with five returning 20-year-olds including Dylan Bredo, Jake Doty, Zach Hodder, Boston Leier and Medicine Hat native Curtis Valk

“We are very excited about the talent and character of our returning 20-year-olds,” stated Tigers’ general manager and head coach Shaun Clouston.

The Tigers will take to the ice for rookie training camp on Friday, August 22nd at the Family Leisure Centre due to The Arena currently undergoing flood damage restoration.

Main camp will begin on the afternoon of Sunday, August 25 concluding Wednesday, August 28th with the annual black and white intra-squad game

The Tigers begin their exhibition season at the Edmonton Oil Kings tournament in St. Albert on Saturday, August 31st when they play Calgary Hitmen and follow up against the Prince George Cougars the next day.

http://www.tigershockey.com/article/tigers-trade-rights-to-20-year-old-garrett-haar

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Garret Harr was on the Tigers protected List, and decided to go through the WHL route after being declared academically ineligible for the first half of next season in the NCAA, and The Tigers held his rights. I don't know what kind of conditional pick this will turn out to be.

New Import Markus Eisenschmid

It's been a while, and yes and this is some old news but I dug up some info on the newest Tiger.
German Import Markus Eisenschmid

The MH News mentioned that Clouston was assured 100% that he is coming over, and I just read a german article where his former Team's Coaches have also stated that he will play in North America for his development.

Last year Markus played in the German Men's league and scored 7 points in 39 games as a 17 year old.
He also split time with ESV Kaufbeuren and put up 18 points in 19 games with 34 penalty minutes in their junoir league.

Eisenschmid is listed at 6 feet 172 lbs on Elite Prospects.com.

Markus was ranked as the 57th best prospect on NHL Central Scouting Final Euro List, and 53rd on the Mid-Term rankings, but went undrafted, as did ranked Tigers Spenser Jensen, Ty Stanton, and Curtis Valk.

Last year Markus suffered an early season injury and his Junoir team had to play in different Arena's as it had contructions issues and was shut down. He was used in a scorer role, but when he moved up to the German Men's league he was given a defensive shutdown 3rd/4th line type role.

For his overall potential it is too early to see if he can be a scorer, or more of a 3rd line grinder. Reports say he is a pretty all-around good offensive player. I did read that Eisenshmid has a feistyness/proud aspect to his game, but could get a little stronger. Markus does have a tendency of sometimes looking a bit lethargic on the ice and like all euro's it may take him some time to adjust to the quickness of the CHL game, but he has an offensive upside that hopefully the Tigers can get out of him.

 At the under 18's he was a player that liked to pass the puck instead of shoot, and seemed to play better being a centreman.  He has been used on both the powerplay and penalty kill, so he has some flexibility to where he can play.  He will probably have a shot at playing with Germany for the WJC championship if he gets off to a good start.

With the depth the Tigers have, hopefully he can prove to put up some points on the second line.
Prior to the draft it sounded like he has made up his mind about crossing the ocean and is exciting about playing here.


Links
MH News Article

Another Overager?

Their is a defenceman by the name of Garrett Harr who was drafted in the 7th round, 207th overall from the 2013 NHL Draft by the Washington Capitals. Last season he played for Western Michigan University but this year was deemed academically ineligible to play for the fall semester. Guess who holds his rights?


The Medicine Hat Tigers

Garret Harr would be a 20 year old overager next season. He is listed as 6'1 198 lbs. The Scouting report on Garrett says he is a good all-around defenceman. Smart in the D zone, has a good first pass, and can contribute on the rush. Garret was injured for much of last season.


Next years Overage Group consists of: Boston Leier, Curtis Valk, Jacob Doty, Dylan Bredo, Zach Hodder.


Articles about Harr
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capitals-insider/wp/2013/07/13/garrett-haar-leaving-western-michigan/

http://www.mlive.com/broncos/index.ssf/2013/07/wmu_hockey_program.html


Garret Tweeted this on Friday: Have decided to leave Western Michigan and go play in the WHL. Medicine Hat tigers seems to be my destination but still not sure.


Interesting to see what comes of this!

Tigers Prospect Camp

The Tigers are holding their prospect camp this weekend at the family Leisure Centre. 33 Prospects will be skating.

On Friday, the camp opens with a dryland training session from 4 to 5 p.m., a goalie session follows from 6:15 to 7 p.m., and the day finishes with an ice session from 7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.


On Saturday, a dryland session is set for 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The goalies hit the ice for a session from 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. and a scrimmage is set for 3:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

http://medicinehatnews.com/2013/05/sports/local-sports/tigers-prospect-camp-opens-on-friday-at-flc/

Season Tickets
A Reminder that the Season Ticket Holder deadline to renew is June 7th, which is next Friday!

Willie Desjardins
TSN has announced that Willie is being interveiwed by Dallas for the Head Coaching position. Willie was a previous associate coach with Dallas, and then moved down to coach their AHL affiliate the Texas Stars. Texas made a 30 point improvement in the standings and Willie was awarded the AHL Coach of the year last year.

News Articles
Airdrie Echo - Spenser Jensen - http://www.airdrieecho.com
(about his recent season and chance on the NHL Combine)

Red Line Report - Tyler Lewington http://www.usatoday.com
(How Red Line report thinks he has been a late riser among draft prospects)

KCRA - Steven Owre http://www.kcra.com/
(playing hockey in canada)


Medicine Hat Mavericks
If you ever went to a Medicine Hat Blue Jays game when they were  in town and liked it you will like going to a Medicine Hat Mavericks game. While the Mavericks aren't quite pro ball, they put on a good show every year and their are a trickle of players who end up making it to the Major Leagues.
Their first Home game of the season is June 1st @ 7:05 pm.

The Mavericks along with most other teams in the league livestream their games. The Mavericks start their season tonight (Friday May 31st in Lethbridge)

4 Tigers Invited To NHL Scouting Combine

Hunter Shinkaruk, Tyler Lewington, Ty Stanton, and Spencer Jensen were all invited.

The combine is a series of physical tests and Interviews for scouts to help evaluate all of the prospects. The combine takes place May 27th to June 1st.

http://www.whl.ca/uploads/assets/WHL_EN_SITE/2012_13_WHL_Season/WHL_Documents/2013_NHL_Combine_Invitees.pdf

WHL Bantam Draft

1st Round
10th Overall - David Quenneville - Right Defence - Edmonton, Alta. - 5'7 - 175lb - SSAC   March 13, 1998.    His youtube video lists him as 5'9  167 lbs.

Youtube - http://youtu.be/LMT5ck-QRwo
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/SuperDave_55
News Article: Article about SSAC winning the Western Canadian Bantam AAA CHampionships. Quenneville was Team Captain.


Scouting Report: Incredible Hockey IQ and on ice vision, Can Quarterback a powerplay with his very good offensive instincts.Has a hard shot, and plays an energetic up tempo game.

2nd Round
32nd - Mason Shaw - Left Wing - Lloydminster, Alta.  5'6 150 lbs, November 3rd, 1998
Mason Shaw Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shawzy15



35th Overall (From PA for Busenius) Ryan Jevne - Centre - Edmonton, Alta. -  5'9 175 lb - August 4th, 1998

Ryan Jevne Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ryan_Jevne19
Scouting Report: Power Forward, plays physical with a lot of skill, and a rocket of a shot.


3rd Round
54th Marshall Skapski -  Left Defense - Abbotsford, B.C. - 5'10 150 lbs - May 4th 1998
Twitter - https://twitter.com/skapski27
(Brother of Kootenay Ice Goaltender Mackenzie Skapski)

4th Round
76th Austin McGrath - Goaltender - Lloydminister, Alta. 5'11 148 lbs - February 10th, 1998
WEHP has him listed as the 5th best Goalie prospect in the draft
Twitter Link https://twitter.com/McGrathAustin

5th Round
No Picks (Elgin Pearce and Derek Ryckman)

6th Round
115th ( Doty deal???) Jordan Taupert  - Centre - Medicine Hat 5'4 125 lbs April 24th, 1998
Twitter Link https://twitter.com/jtaups_14

120th - Max Gerlach - Right Wing 5'5 130 lbs April 4th, 1998
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/maxgerlach_

123rd (James Bettauer Deal) Caleb Fantillo Right Wing 5'10 170 lbs Coquitlam BC April 21, 1998
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/calebfantillo

7th Round
No Picks - (Cam Lanigan deal)

8th Round
164th - Cale Makar - Defense -  Calgary - 5'6 125 lbs - November 30th, 1998
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/Maker102

9th Round
- Pick Traded to Lethbridge for moving up in the CHL Import Draft (Langhamer) Pick Ended up in Saskatoons hands.

10th Round
208 - Ryan Roberts - Defence, White City, Sask. 5'10 154 lb March 12, 1998

Tigers Are Done Picking

Medicine Hat Locals Taken
72nd  Jaeger White - Lethbridge
115th Jordan Taupert - Medicine Hat
126th Michael Doneff - Spokane
167th - Michael Clarke - Prince Albert

Former Tiger
Dawson MacAuley had a standout year after he was sent down to the Yorkton Terriers who are competing with the Brooks Bandits for the Western Canada Cup. Calgary Listed MacAuley and traded him to Regina today for a 4th round Bantam Draft Pick. MacAuley will be 19 next season