The Kootenay ICE are in Saskatoon tonight for game 1 of the 2nd round of the playoffs.
ICE eliminated Moose Jaw in the 1st round in 6 games and the Blades beat Prince Albert in 6 games.
During the regular season the Blades won all 4 meetings.
In ICE Playoff History ...
Without home ice advantage - 10 times and have won the series 4 times.
Listen for the Pre-Game Show at 6:30 on The Drive.
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 5 Matt Fraser
Assists – 5 Kevin King
Points – 7 Matt Fraser
Defenseman – 6 Brayden McNabb
Rookie – 1 Adam Rossignol
PM – 16 Hayden Rintoul, Jese Ismond
+/- - +8 Brayden McNabb
Avg – 0.00 Brett Teskey, 2.54 Nathan Lieuwen
Blades
Goals – 5 Brayden Schenn
Assists – 6 Curtis Hamilton
Points – 10 Brayden Schenn, Curtis Hamilton
Defenseman – 6 Stefan Elliott
Rookie – 7 Matej Stransky
PM – 11 Darren Dietz, Duncan Siemens
+/- - +6 Matej Stransky
Avg – 2.15 Stanford
Head to Head Regular Season
ICE
Jesse Ismond 2-1-3
Max Reinhart 1-2-3
Jagger Dirk 1-1-2
Kevin King 1-1-2
Hayden Rintoul 0-2-2
Nathan Lieuwen 0-4-0-0 4.41 .878%
Brett Teskey 0-0-0-0 7.00 .789%
Blades
Marek Viedensky 3-3-6
Brayden Schenn 2-3-5
Stefan Elliott 3-1-4
Josh Nicholls 2-2-4
Darian Dziurzynski 2-2-4
Steven Stanford 4-0-0-0 2.00 .933%
Streaks
James Martin – 3 games 0-4-4
Max Reinhart - 2 games 2-3-5
Home
Cody Eakin 1-3-4
Brayden McNabb 1-2-3
Kevin King 0-3-3
Max Reinhart 2-0-2
Joe Antilla 2-0-2
Nathan Lieuwen 2-1 2.41 .900%
Brett Teskey 0-0 0.00 1.000% 6 min
Road
Matt Fraser 4-1-5
Max Reinhart 1-3-4
Joe Antilla 2-1-3
Brayden McNabb 1-2-3
James Martin 0-3-3
Nathan Lieuwen 2-1 2.67 .887% 1 SO