Hunter St. Martin lifts Medicine Hat Tigers over Rimouski Océanic in Memorial Cup opener

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 24, 2025 8:16 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 24

Hunter St. Martin scored with 2:21 near to play to assistance the Medicine Hat Tigers implicit the the big Rimouski Océanic 5-4 connected Friday successful the archetypal crippled of the Memorial Cup.

Bryce Pickford had a brace of goals for Medicine Hat, the Western Hockey League champions. Ryder Ritchie and Gavin McKenna besides recovered the backmost of the nett and Oasiz Wiesblatt had 3 assists.

Harrison Meneghin made 20 saves for the win.

Mael Lavigne, Jacob Mathieu and Jonathan Fauchon each had power-play goals for Rimouski and Mael St-Denis scored astatine adjacent strength.

Mathis Langevin turned speech 33 shots for the Océanic, who are hosting Canada's large inferior hockey championship.

Before the crippled started, determination was a precise affectional infinitesimal shared betwixt a subordinate of Océanic and his father.

Capt. Erick Théberge amazed his lad Olivier Théberge by coming onto the crystal arsenic portion of the game's opening ceremonial and puck drop.

Capt. Théberge, who has served successful the Canadian Armed Forces for 36 years, received peculiar support to instrumentality from his deployment successful Latvia successful clip to ticker his lad play successful this archetypal crippled of the Memorial Cup.

The round-robin information of the tourney continues connected Saturday erstwhile the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League's Moncton Wildcats look the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights.