The Kootenay ICE will host the Red Deer Rebels tonight in their 7th meeting of the season.
Rebels lead the season series 4-2 with the last meeting January 8th when the Rebels won 6-1.
ICE are coming off a 5-2 loss in Spokane on Friday.
Rebels have won 7 in a row and beat Moose Jaw 3-0 last night.
Dracy Kuemper has a league leading 30 wins, 9 shutouts and is 1st in GAA and save %.
6 of the 7 Rebels wins have come on the road.
Rebels are 4 points ahead of the ICE for 1st place in the Central Division and 2nd in the East Conference.
While the Rebels have no injuries the ICE will be at least 2 players short of a complete line-up with Luke Paulsen, Joey Leach, Steele Boomer and Matt Fraser unavailable.
Leaders
ICE
Goals - 25 Max Reinhart
Assists - 27 Matt Fraser, Kevin King, Brayden McNabb
Points - 48 Max Reinhart, Matt Fraser
Defenseman - 38 Brayden McNabb
Rookie - 8 Adam Rossignol
+/- - +19 Max Reinhart
PM - 80 Matt Fraser
Rebels
Goals - 22 Byron Froese
Assists - 43 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Points - 56 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Defenseman - 36 Alexander Petrovic
Rookie - 19 Matthew Dumba
+/- - +24 Colin Archer
PM - 95 Alexander Petrovic
Head to Head
ICE
Matt Fraser 4-3-7
Max Reinhart 1-5-6
James Martin 3-1-4
Drew Czerwonka 2-2-4
Nathan Lieuwen 2-3-0 3.61 .871%
Rebels
Brett Ferguson 4-5-9
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 3-3-6
Josh Cowen 2-2-4
Turner Elson 2-2-4
Darcy Kuemper 4-2-0 2.17 .919% 1 SO