WHITEHORSE — The Kelowna Rockets dropped a 5-2 decision to the Medicine Hat Tigers on Saturday night at Tahkini Arena in Whitehorse, as the Tigers captured the inaugural Northern Lights Cup.

Medicine Hat’s Noah Davidson opened the scoring less than a minute into the game, but the Rockets responded midway through the period when Kalder Varga scored early on the power play, set up by Levi Benson.

In the second, Kayden Longley put Kelowna ahead 2-1 with a power play marker from the slot on a nice passing play, assisted by Daniel Pekar and Rowan Guest. The Tigers answered quickly as Davidson notched his second of the night on the man advantage to even things at 2-2.

The third period belonged to Medicine Hat. Gavin Kor scored the eventual game-winner on the power play just over four minutes

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