The Kootenay ICE will host Prince George tonight in their only meeting of the season.
Last year the ICE won 3-2 in Prince George.
The last time the Cougars played in Cranbrook was October 6th, 2010 and Prince George won 6-3.
The only players still on their rosters who played in that game are …
ICE – Jagger Dirk, Drew Czerwonka, Brock Montgomery, Eric Benoit & Joey Leach.
Cougars – Daniel Gibb, Caleb Belter & Troy Bourke.
Cougars Forward Colin Jacobs has points in all 6 games this season.
The ICE are in the middle of a 6-game homestand.
Brock Montgomery (4-2-6) and Sam Reinhart (2-6-8) each have 3 game point streaks.
Montgomery has scored a goal in 4 of the 5 games the ICE have played this season.
Listen to the Pre-Game Show at 6:30 on The Drive.
Here is the link to tonight's FREEZE Magazine.
http://www.kootenayice.net/program
Cranbrook, BC – Jeff Chynoweth, General Manager of the Kootenay ICE Hockey Club, today announced the club has named 20-year-old Drew Czerwonka as Captain of the 2012-2013 team. Czerwonka is just the third player in franchise history to be team captain for two consecutive seasons (John Kachur – 1996-1997, Steve McCarthy – 1998-2000, Mike Green – 2000, Mike Comrie – 2000, Dean Arsene – 2000-2001, Jason Jaffray – 2001-2002, Jarret Stoll – 2001-2002, Colin Sinclair – 2002-2003, Nigel Dawes – 2003-2005, Adam Cracknell – 2005-2006, Ryan Russell – 2006-2007, Steve DaSilva – 2007-2008, Andrew Bailey – 2008-2009, Dustin Sylvester – 2009-2010, Brayden McNabb - 2010-2011). The Assistant Captains will be Joey Leach, Brock Montgomery and Sam Reinhart.
“Leadership is important on any team and it comes from within. When you have a young team it is even more important to have players that know what it takes to win and develop that winning culture. All four players wearing letters were a part of our 2011 Championship Team and understand the standard of excellence we strive to accomplish” added Chynoweth.
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 5 Montgomery
Assists – 6 Reinhart
Points – 8 Reinhart
Defenseman – 3 Dirk
Rookie – 1 Philp, Prochazka, Shirley
PM – 25 Hubic
+/- - +1 Reinhart, Montgomery, Boyd
Goalies – Hoflin 3.73 .857%, Skapski 4.22 .848%
Cougars
Goals – 6 Jacobs
Assists – 6 Jacobs
Points – 12 Jacobs
Defenseman – 4 Ehrhardt
Rookie – 6 Pochiro
PM – 11 Pochiron
+/- - +9 Belter
Avg – 3.23 Zarowny, 3.80 Fordyce
Streaks
Montgomery – 3 games 4-2-6
Reinhart – 3 games 2-6-8
Dirk – 2 games 1-1-2
Home
Reinhart 2-6-8
Montgomery 4-2-6
Benoit 1-1-2
Dirk 1-1-2
Boyd 1-1-2
Skapski 1-0-0-0 3.00 .857%
Hoflin 0-2-0-0-0 3.73 .857%
Road
Leach 0-2-2
Martin 1-0-1
Muth 1-0-1
Montgomery 1-0-1
Philp 1-0-1
Dirk 0-1-1
Descheneau 0-1-1
Skapski 0-2-0-0 5.04