The Lethbridge Hurricanes have washed away the Red Deer Rebels and have set their sights on taming the Medicine Hat Tigers in round two of the WHL playoffs.

Hurricanes captain Tyler Wong, from Cochrane, says his team knew they were better than the Rebels and they never lost confidence when they were down 3-1 in the first round series. They completed this enormous comeback for the first time in the club's history in front of a sold out home crowd at the ENMAX Centre.

"We knew we had the better team and if we just sticked with it and didn't get away from our game plan and didn't try to do too much that we were going to be able to come back.We just had to take it one game at a time. We took care of game 5 and we needed to win game 6 and then by game 7 we had built up so much momentum that we knew we couldn't lose. It was a great feeling to be come back from that."

Cochrane's Wong believes the Hurricanes physical game could help in caging the Tigers, who play a fast run-and-gun style.

"We've got to get them off their game. We've got to play sort of a grinding style. We have a lot of skill on our team as well but we also have that physical play and are able to play a shutdown kind of game so we have to be physical on their smaller players and really take away their power play by staying out of the box and really just shutting down their top scorers. That's going to be a task for us but I believe we're up to the challenge."

The Tigers finished ahead of the Hurricanes in the WHL's central division and are prolific scorers, accumulating 350 goals in 72 games, a feat only topped by the lead-leading Regina Pats. Still, there's no sure thing in the playoffs. In another one round series the Portland Winterhawks succeeded in toppling the Prince George Cougars.

"Last series everyone predicted that we were going to be able to either sweep Red Deer or take it in five just as a mismatch. They proved everyone wrong and gave us all that we could handle.I think that in this series whatever people are predicting you never really know what's going to happen. We've got to focus and just take it one game at a time, like we did it in the last few games {against Red Deer]. So it's tough to say how a series will unfold."

Now in his final season with the Hurricanes, Wong breached the 50 goal mark for the first time in the regular season with 51 goals and 58 assists to top their scoring column. So far, he has scored five goals and assisted on five in post-season play.

The round two series opens in Medicine Hat this Friday.