Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Kootenay @ Red Deer Game #61

The Kootenay ICE are in Red Deer tonight for the 8th and final meeting of the season.
Rebels have won the last 3 meetings and lead the season series 5-2.
Rebels have outscored the ICE 29-19.
ICE have won 9 of their last 11 and beat Kelowna 4-2 last night.
The Rebels last 4 games have gone to overtime and they are 2-0-2.
Rebels are 2nd in the Conference and the ICE are tied for 3rd, 8 points behind with 2 games in hand.
Luke Paulsen could be out at least a month with a shoulder injury suffered last night.
Brock Montgomery and Joey Leach are also unavailable which will leave the ICE one player short of a complete line-up.
With a chance to skate today and tomorrow Leach could return on the weekend.
Listen for the Pre-Game Show at 6:30 on The Drive.
The game will be televised on SportsNet.

Leaders
ICE
Goals - 30 Max Reinhart
Assists - 40 Brayden McNabb
Points - 68 Max Reinhart
PM - 102 Matt Fraser
Defenseman - 57 Brayden McNabb (3rd in WHL)
Rookie - 8 Adam Rossignol, Eric Benoit
+/- - +29 Max Reinhart
GAA - 2.78 Nathan Lieuwen (4th in WHL)

Rebels
Goals - 34 Byron Froese
Assists - 66 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (1st in WHL)
Points - 86 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (tied for 3rd in WHL)
PM - 127 Alexander Petrovic
Defenseman - 48 Alexander Petrovic
Rookie - 24 Matthew Dumba
+/- - +31 John Persson
GAA - 1.87 Darcy Kuemper (1st in WHL)

Head to Head
ICE
Max Reinhart 1-7-8
Matt Fraser 4-3-7
James Martin 3-1-4
Drew Czerwonka 2-2-4
Kevin King 2-2-4
Nathan Lieuwen 2-4-0 3.84 .865%

Rebels
Brett Ferguson 5-5-10
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 3-7-10
Andrej Kudrna 3-5-8
John Persson 4-3-7
Alexander Petrovic 1-6-7
Darcy Kuemper 5-2-0 2.43 .915% 1 SO

Streaks
Kevin King - 13 games 8-12-20
Max Reinhart - 7 games 4-8-12
Hayden Rintoul - 3 games 1-3-4
Jesse Ismond - 3 games 2-2-4