The Kootenay ICE will host the Seattle Thunderbirds tonight in their only meeting of the season.
Last year in Seattle the ICE won 6-2.
The last meeting in Cranbrook was November 1/09 and the ICE won 1-0 in overtime.
For only the second time this season the ICE are winless for 2 games in a row and they lost 5-4 to Tri City in their last game on Wednesday.
The ICE have lost 7 games this season and 6 of them have been a 1-goal loss or a 2-goal loss because of an empty net goal against.
Seattle is 2-3-0-0 on this Central Division road trip and have won their last 2 games.
Luke Paulsen is expected to return after missing 3 games to an injury.
For the first time all season the ICE had their entire line-up skate at practice on Thursday as Drew Czerwonka and Brendan Hurley are close to returning to the active roster.
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/november_12?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 8 Max Reinhart
Assists – 11 Max Reinhart, Joe Antilla
Points – 19 Max Reinhart
Defenseman – 12 Joey Leach
Rookie – 8 Sam Reinhart
PM – 34 Jesse Ismond
+/- - +9 Jesse Ismond, Drew Czerwonka,
Avg – 1.85 Nathan Lieuwen, 3.00 Mackenzie Skapski
Thunderbirds
Goals – 8 Marcel Noebels, Burle Gallimore
Assists – 8 Brendan Rouse, Shea Theodore
Points – 15 Marcel Noebels
Defenseman – 9 Dave Sutter
Rookie – 8 Shea Theodore
PM – 42 Mitch Elliot
+/- - +1 Sean Aschim, Brendan Rouse, Justin Hickman
Avg – 3.05 Daniel Cotton, Calvin Pickard 4.03
Head to Head
ICE
Opposition
Streaks
Eric Benoit 4 games 4-1-5
Elgin Pearce 3 games 2-1-3
Brock Montgomery 3 games 2-2-4
Adam Rossignol 2 games 0-2-2
Home
Max Reinhart 5-7-12
Jesse Ismond 7-4-11
Elgin Pearce 5-4-9
Joey Leach 1-8-9
Joe Antilla 1-8-9
Brock Montgomery 2-6-8
Drew Czerwonka 3-4-7
Eric Benoit 5-1-6
Sam Reinhart 3-3-6
Adam Rossignol 3-3-6
Nathan Lieuwen 7-1-1-0 1.88 .937% 1 SO
Mackenzie Skapski 2-1-0-0 3.00 .895%
Road
Max Reinhart 3-4-7
Jagger Dirk 1-3-4
Jesse Ismond 0-4-4
Adam Rossignol 2-1-3
Eric Benoit 2-1-3
Elgin Pearce 1-2-3
Joey Leach 1-2-3
Brock Montgomery 0-3-3
Joe Antilla 0-3-3
Nathan Lieuwen 3-2-0-2 1.82 .934%