Friday, February 3, 2012

Calgary @ Kootenay Game #51

The Kootenay ICE will host Calgary tonight in the 4th meeting of the season and their first since October.
ICE lead season series 2-1.
Including tonight they will play each other 5 times in the last 7 weeks of the regular season.
September 24 in Kootenay - ICE 5-1
October 2 in Calgary - Hitmen 4-2
October 23 in Calgary - ICE 4-2
The ICE wrapped up the month of January with 4 straight 1-goal losses and have dropped to 6th in the Conference. They lost 7 games in the month, 6 were were 1-goal losses and 4 came in overtime or shootouts.
The ICE have won 2 games in a row only once in the last 16 games.
The Hitmen have won 14 of their last 15 games, including 6 straight road wins, to move up to 3rd in the Conference.
Drew Czerwonka (7 games) is probable, Max Reinhart (3 games) is questionable and Luke Paulsen (14 games) is 1-2 weeks away from game action.
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/february_3?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true

Leaders
ICE
Goals – 20 Max Reinhart, 20 Sam Reinhart
Assists – 37 Max Reinhart, 29 Jesse Ismond
Points – 57 Max Reinhart, 47 Sam Reinhart
Defenseman – 30 Joey Leach, 24 Jagger Dirk
Rookie – 47 Sam Reinhart, 9 Jaedon Descheneau
PM – 81 Jesse Ismond, 67 Dirk
+/- - +22 Joey Leach, +21 John Neibrandt
Avg – 2.36 Nathan Lieuwen, 3.20 Mackenzie Skapski

Hitmen
Goals – 21 Jimmy Bubnick, 21 Victor Rask, 21 Alex Gogolev
Assists – 37 Cody Sylvester
Points – 54 Cody Sylvester
Defenseman – 35 Collin Bowman
Rookie – 40 Victor Rask
PM – 101 Jaynen Rissling
+/- - +23 Brock Sutherland
Avg – 2.68 Chris Driedger, 3.08 Brandon Glover

Head to Head
ICE
Brock Montgomery 0-6-6
Sam Reinhart 2-1-3
Eric Benoit 2-1-3
Jesse Ismond 1-2-3
Joey Leach 0-3-3
Joe Antilla 0-3-3
Nathan Lieuwen 2-1-0-0 2.01 .924%

Hitmen
Brooks Macek 2-0-2
Danny Gayle 1-1-2
Victor Rask 1-1-2
Chris Driedger 0-1-0-0 3.00 .893, Brandon Glover 1-1-0-0 3.50 .806%

Streaks
Eric Benoit 3 games 0-3-3
Joey Leach 3 games 0-3-3
Jagger Dirk 2 games 0-3-3
Dylen McKinlay 2 games 3-2-5
Brock Montgomery 2 games 1-1-2

Home
Max Reinhart 8-17-25
Jesse Ismond 7-13-20
Elgin Pearce 12-7-19
Dylen McKinlay 7-11-18
Joey Leach 6-10-16
Sam Reinhart 9-6-15
Eric Benoit 6-7-13
Brock Montgomery 6-7-13
Joe Antilla 3-10-13
Drew Czerwonka 4-8-12
Mackenzie Skapski 4-2-0-2 2.25 .919%
Nathan Lieuwen 10-5-1-0 2.45 .917% 1 SO

Road
Max Reinhart 12-20-32
Sam Reinhart 11-21-32
Jesse Ismond 7-16-23
Joe Antilla 6-14-20
Brock Montgomery 10-8-18
Drew Czerwonka 7-7-14
Jagger Dirk 3-13-14
Joey Leach 2-12-14
Dylen McKinlay 4-8-12
Nathan Lieuwen 10-6-3-2 2.28 .922% 1 SO
Mackenzie Skapski 3-2-0-0 4.38 .830%