The Kootenay ICE will host Medicine Hat tonight in game #1 of their 1st round playoff series.
They split their season series 3-3, one of the ICE wins came in overtime.
The ICE won 2 of the 3 games played in Medicine Hat and the Tigers won 2 of the 3 games played in Cranbrook.
They have met once in a playoff series, in 2008 the ICE won 4-1, with the road team winning 4 of the 5 games.
ICE have played in 22 playoff series and are 13-9.
With home ice advanatge the ICE have won 9 of 12 playoff series.
Both teams have won 2 WHL Championships in the past 10 years, ICE in 2000 & 2002 and the Tigers in 2004 & 2007.
Regular Season Leaders
ICE
Goals - 35 Sylvester, 32 Fraser
Assists - 58 Sylvester, 42 Boomer
Points - 93 Sylvester, 68 Boomer
Dman - 57 McNabb, 43 Rintoul
PM - 121 McNabb, 119 Fraser
Rookie - 26 Leach, 16 Montgomery
Tigers
Goals - 40 Cameron
Assists - 51 Vey
Points - 75 Vey
Dman - 47 Isherwood, 46 Coyle
PM - 123 Kessy
Rookie - 65 Etem
Head to Head
ICE
Sylvester 4-5-9
Fraser 3-4-7
McNabb 1-6-7
King - 2-4-6
Mathews - 3-2-0-0 3.02 .890%
Lieuwen - 0-1-0-0 3.07 .912%
PP - 26.9%
PK - 83.9%
Tigers
King - 3-6-9
Vey - 3-4-7
Isherwood - 1-5-6
Etem 5-0-5
Frazer - 4-1-5
Bunz - 3-2-1-0 3.35 .886%
PP - 16.1%
PK - 73.1%