Tigers’ Meneghin earns WHL Playoffs MVP, lifts Ed Chynoweth Cup first

Oasiz Wiesblatt may just’ve been the primary participant to boost the Ed Chynoweth Cup on Friday evening, however he most well-liked to offer the distinction to his teammate.

Following the Medicine Hat Tigers’ 4–2 win over the Spokane Chiefs in Game 5 to say the WHL championship, Wiesblatt — the group’s captain — posed for a photograph with the trophy sooner than waving over goaltender Harrison Meneghin to do the similar, permitting him to be the primary to hoist the {hardware}.

Meneghin was once voted the 2025 WHL Playoffs MVP through individuals of the media after going 14-1 with 3 shutouts, a 2.32 goals-against reasonable and a .907 save share over 16 post-season video games.

The 20-year-old misplaced his father, Derek, hastily at the ultimate day of the WHL common season. He returned to the group simply days later for the beginning of the playoffs and went directly to backstop the Tigers to their 6th Ed Chynoweth Cup — and primary since 2007.

Meneghin, from South Surrey, B.C., was once decided on within the ultimate spherical of the 2024 NHL Draft through the Tampa Bay Lightning. Acquired through the Tigers from the Lethbridge Hurricanes in October, he posted a 23-10-1-1 file with a 2.58 goals-against reasonable and a .900 save share all through the common season.

“I’m super proud of him,” Wiesblatt instructed journalists after the Tigers’ first playoff sport on March 28, through which Meneghin recorded a shutout simply 5 days after his father’s passing. “I do know each man in there may be tremendous pleased with him. 

“It displays a large number of resiliency from him, it’s lovely implausible. There’s no longer a large number of phrases to place against it, guys have been crying after seeing him get that win. That was once one of the crucial particular factor I’ve ever been a part of.”

Meneghin is the 3rd participant — and goaltender — in Tigers historical past to be named WHL Playoff MVP, becoming a member of Kevin Nastiuk (2004) and Matt Keetley (2007).

Medicine Hat will now constitute the WHL on the Memorial Cup, which runs May 22 to June 1, along the host Rimouski Océanic, the QMJHL’s Moncton Wildcats and OHL’s London Knights.