The Kootenay ICE will host the Saskatoon Blades tonight.
Blades lead the season series 2-0.
November 19th in Cranbrook 2-1, December 12th in Saskatoon 4-2.
ICE have won 5 games in a row with a 4-1 win over Medicine Hat last night.
The ICE had a 7 game winning streak in October.
Blades recently had an 11 game winning streak and have won 12 of the last 13.
Blades are 1st in the Conference and the ICE are 3rd.
The game features former Team Canada teamates as Cody Eakin faces Brayden Schenn and Curtis Hamilton.
Cody Eakin w/ICE 12 GP 10-12-22, 4 SHG, +13
Brayden Schenn w/Blades 13 GP 11-19-30, 6 PPG 8 PPA
Listen for the Pre-Game Show at 6:30 on The Drive.
Leaders
ICE
Goals - 30 Max Reinhart
Assists - 40 Brayden McNabb
Points - 65 Max Reinhart
PM - 95 Matt Fraser
Defenseman - 56 Brayden McNabb (3rd in WHL)
Rookie - 8 Adam Rossignol, Eric Benoit
+/- - +28 Max Reinhart
GAA - 2.77 Nathan Lieuwen (5th in WHL)
Blades
Goals - 28 Josh Nicholls
Assists - 46 Curtis Hamilton
Points - 71 Josh Nicholls
PM - 151 Lukas Sutter
Defenseman - 68 Stefan Elliott (1st in WHL)
Rookie - 22 Matej Stransky
+/- - +44 Merk Viedensky
GAA - 2.74 Steven Stanford (4th in WHL)
Head to Head
ICE
Max Reinhart 1-1-2
Eric Benoit 1-0-1
Jegger Dirk 1-0-1
Nathan Lieuwen 0-2-0 3.03 .912%
Blades
Marek Viedensky 2-1-3
Brent Benson 1-1-2
Duncan Siemens 1-1-2
Steven Stanford 2-0-0 1.50 .955%
Streaks
Kevin King - 11 games 8-9-17
Matt Fraser - 11 games 9-13-22
Cody Eakin - 7 games 7-9-16
Max Reinhart - 5 games 4-5-9
Joe Antilla - 3 games 2-1-3
Nathan Lieuwen - 6 wins in a row