The Kootenay ICE will host the Swift Current Broncos tonight in the 3rd meeting of the season.
Series tied 1-1.
December 4 in Swift Current - Broncos 2-1
December 16 in Kootenay - ICE 5-4 SO
The ICE are 0-2-0-1 in the last 3 games and are coming off their worst performance of the year in a 7-2 loss in Lethbridge on Monday.
The Broncos are 1-3-0-2 in the last 6 games and beat Medicine Hat 4-2 on Sunday.
The ICE are 4th in the East Conference and the Broncos are 10th.
The ICE will still be 1 player short of a complete line-up even with call-ups Luke Philp and Jesse Wood-Shatz suiting up tonight.
John Neibrandt might play on the weekend but Luke Paulsen is now listed as indefinite.
The 4 players who played in the U-17 will be back on the weekend. Sam Reinhart, Jaedon Descheneau, Spencer Wand and Jon Martin all missed 5 WHL games.
Listen for the Pre-Game Show at 6:30 on The Drive.
Here is the link to tonight's FREEZE Magazine.
http://issuu.com/kootenayice/docs/january_4?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 18 Max Reinhart, 15 Elgin Pearce
Assists – 25 Max Reinhart, 23 Jesse Ismond
Points – 43 Max Reinhart, 34 Jesse Ismond
Defenseman – 23 Joey Leach, 13 Jagger Dirk
Rookie – 31 Sam Reinhart, 7 Jaedon Descheneau
PM – 67 Jesse Ismond, 49 Joey Leach, 49 Jagger Dirk
+/- - +20 John Neibrandt, +15 Max Reinhart
Avg – 2.18 Nathan Lieuwen, 3.10 Mackenzie Skapski
Broncos
Goals – 21 Taylor Vause
Assists – 25 Adam Lowry
Points – 45 Taylor Vause
Defenseman – 29 Reece Scarlett
Rookie – 34 Coda Gordan
PM – 100 Andy Blanke
+/- - +5 Coda Gordan
Avg – 3.52 Jon Groenheyde, 3.92 Austin Smith
Head to Head
ICE
Elgin Pearce 3-0-3
Jesse Ismond 1-1-2
Sam Reinhart 1-1-2
Dylen McKinlay 0-2-2
Nathan Lieuwen 1-1-0-0 2.91 .889%
Broncos
Taylor Vause 1-2-3
Coda Gordan 1-2-3
Adam Lowry 1-1-2
Jon Groenheyde 1-0-0-1 2.40 .931%
Streaks
Max Reinhart 4 games 2-3-5
Jagger Dirk 2 games 0-3-3
Joey Leach 2 games 1-1-2
Home
Max Reinhart 6-13-19
Elgin Pearce 10-7-17
Jesse Ismond 7-10-17
Joey Leach 6-9-15
Dylen McKinlay 5-8-13
Joe Antilla 3-10-13
Eric Benoit 5-5-10
Brock Montgomery 4-6-10
Mackenzie Skapski 4-2-0-1 2.26 .918%
Nathan Lieuwen 8-3-1-0 2.47 .916% 1 SO
Road
Max Reinhart 12-12-24
Sam Reinhart 6-17-23
Jesse Ismond 4-13-17
Drew Czerwonka 7-7-14
Joe Antilla 2-12-14
Brock Montgomery 7-5-12
Elgin Pearce 5-4-9
Luke Paulsen 1-8-9
Nathan Lieuwen 8-6-0-2 1.95 .930% 1 SO
Mackenzie Skapski 2-1-0-0 4.59 .838%