EDMONTON – Brett Kemp has the Edmonton Oil Kings on a three-game win streak to open the Western Hockey League season.
Kemp scored two goals just 2:01 apart in the second period as the Oil Kings came back from two goals down to beat the Medicine Hat Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday.
Andrei Pavlenko scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third for Edmonton (3-0-0), which got 33 saves from Dylan Myskiw.
Bryan Lockner and Eric Van Impre built up a 2-0 by the 6:43 mark of the second for the Tigers (1-2-0).
Jordan Hollett stopped 30-of-33 shots in defeat.
The Oil Kings went 0 for 1 on the power play while Medicine Hat scored once on four chances with the man advantage.
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COUGARS 4 ROCKETS 2
KELOWNA, B.C — Vladislav Mikhalchuk broke a 2-2 deadlock at 16:27 of the third as Prince George handed the Rockets their third loss in a row to begin the campaign.
Ryan Schoettler, Mike MacLean and Ilijah Colina also scored while Taylor Gauthier stopped 27 shots for the Cougars (1-1-1).
The Kelowna (0-3-0) offence was supplied by Leif Mattson and Lassi Thomson. James Porter kicked out 20-of-23 shots in a losing cause.
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