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There have been many a moment where time stood still at The Arena in Medicine Hat.

The birth of the Medicine Hat Tigers, legendary NHL careers started, highlight-reel goals, bone-crunching hits and, more gratifying, five Ed Chynoweth Cup banners raised to the rafters.

But in the Tigers’ first season of play in the city, the counter of time literally stood still, albeit in a heap.

On Dec. 11, 1970, elementary school teams from St. Louis and Herald schools had just faced off when the 1,700-pound score clock came crashing down onto centre ice of the then-named Arena Convention Centre. Thankfully, no players were under the clock when it hit the ice, and to lesser importance, the falling clock did not even crack the ice.

“It came down in about a second,” said. St. Louis princ

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