The Kootenay ICE are in Lethbridge tonight as they wrap up the regular season with a home-and-home against the Hurricanes.
ICE lead the season series 3-0-0-1.
ICE are 4-0-0-1 in the last 5 games and won 4-1 in Medicine Hat on Tuesday.
Hurricanes have lost 4 of the last 5 and lost 8-1 in Edmonton on Tuesday.
ICE are 4th in the Conference and are 3 points behind 3rd place Medicine Hat. ICE need to earn 3 more points than the Tigers to take 3rd place. Tigers have a home and home against Calgary with the games on Saturday and Sunday.
Hurricanes are 9th in the Conference and are 4 points behind 8th place Prince Albert. Hurricanes need to win both games against the ICE and have the Raiders lose both weekend games against Swift Current in regulation to tie the Raiders for the final playoff spot. Then the Hurricanes would play the Raiders in a tiebreaker game.
Listen for the Pre-Game Show at 6:30 on The Drive.
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 34 Cody Eakin, Max Reinhart, Matt Fraser
Assists – 48 Brayden McNabb
Points – 79 Cody Eakin (w/ICE 24 GP 16-24-40)
Defenseman – 69 Brayden McNabb (3rd in WHL)
Rookie – 10 Eric Benoit
PM – 115 Matt Fraser
+/- - +31 Joe Antilla
Avg – 2.82 Nathan Lieuwen
Hurricanes
Goals – 30 Cam Braes
Assists – 33 Mitch Maxwell
Points – 59 Cam Braes
Defenseman – 25 Landon Oslanski
Rookie – 24 Alex Kuvaev, Russell Maxwell
PM – 176 Cason Machacek
+/- - +8 Austin Fyten
Avg – 3.75 Brandon Anderson
Head to Head
ICE
Max Reinhart 3-4-7
Brayden McNabb 1-5-6
Cody Eakin 0-6-6
Kevin King 2-3-5
Drew Czerwonka 3-1-4
Nathan Lieuwen 2-0-0-1 2.93 .890%
Mackenzie Skapski 1-0-0-0 2.83 .909%
Hurricanes
Mitch Maxwell 2-3-5
Max Ross 2-2-4
Reid Jackson 1-3-4
Russell Maxwell 1-3-4
Brandon Anderson 1-1-1-0 4.29 .875%
Dylan Tait 0-1-0-0 4.44 .883%
Streaks
Cody Eakin 5 games 4-7-11
Road
Max Reinhart 20-17-37
Kevin King 10-22-32
Matt Fraser 17-15-32
Brayden McNabb 6-21-27
Joe Antilla 10-11-21
Nathan Lieuwen 18-10-0-2 3.07 .894 2 SO
Brett Teskey 1-1-0-0 4.08 .870% 1 SO
Mackenzie Skapski 0-1-0 3.08 .893%