The Kootenay ICE will host Lethbridge tonight in the 4th meeting of the season.
The ICE lead the season series 3-0.
September 27 in Cranbrook - ICE 2-0.
October 14 in Cranbrook - ICE 2-1
October 17 in Lethbridge - ICE 4-2
It's the first game for both clubs after having 10 days off for the Xmas break.
The ICE went into the break winning 2 of the last 3 games and are 2-5-0-0 in December.
The Hurricanes have won 4 games in a row and have won 11 of the last 15 games.
The ICE are 3rd in the East Conference and the Hurricanes are 11th.
The ICE are without 4 players who are at the U-17 tournament in Windsor (Sam Reinhart, Jaedon Descheneau, Spencer Wand, Jon Martin) and the Hurricanes have 3 players in the tournament (Mackoy Erkamps, Craig Leverton, Jay Merkley).
The tournament will have exhibition games on Wednesday and the round-robin games start on Thursday.
The ICE have called up 16-year-old defenseman Tanner Faith (Sask AAA Midget Notre Dame 3-5-8 32pm) and 16-year-old forward Luke Philp (AJHL Canmore 10-23-33 24pm, leads team in scoring) for the next 5 games.
Faith played in 4 games with the ICE last year.
Philp played in 3 games with the ICE earlier this season.
The ICE have 6 prospects playing in the Mac's Tournament.
Kyle Krabben - Calgary Buffaloes 1 GP 1-2-3 2pm
Jakson Elynuik - Calgary Flames 1 GP 1-0-1 0pm
Doug Morris - Leduc Oil Kings 1 GP 0-0-0 0pm
Collin Shirley - Saskatoon Blazers
Jesse Wood-Schatz - Sherwood Park Kings 2 GP 0-2-2 0pm
Wyatt Hoflin - St. Albert Raiders 1 GP 2-0 1.00 61-shots-59 saves
Brayden McNabb scored his 1st career NHL goal last night in Buffalo's win over Washington and was named the games' 1st star.
Adam Cracknell was called up by St. Louis last night and he scored his 4th career NHL goal. He had 3 last year.
Brett Teskey has joined the Tri City Americans for the next 2 weeks while Eric Comrie is at the U-17.
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/december_27?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 16 Max Reinhart, 14 Elgin Pearce
Assists – 22 Max Reinhart, 22 Jesse Ismond
Points – 38 Max Reinhart, 33 Jesse Ismond
Defenseman – 21 Joey Leach, 12 Luke Paulsen
Rookie – 31 Sam Reinhart
PM – 57 Jesse Ismond, 36 Wand
+/- - +20 John Neibrandt, +16 Max Reinhart
Avg – 2.12 Nathan Lieuwen, 2.89 Mackenzie Skapski
Hurricanes
Goals – 20 Cam Braes
Assists – 16 Cam Braes
Points – 36 Cam Braes
Defenseman – 14 Landon Oslanski
Rookie – 15 Jay Merkley
PM – 61 Graham Hood
+/- - +0 Jamal Watson
Avg – 3.36 Damien Ketlo, 4.69 Liam Liston
Head to Head
ICE
Jesse Ismond 1-3-4
Max Reinhart 1-2-3
Elgin Pearce 1-1-2
Jagger Dirk 1-1-2
Nathan Lieuwen 3-0-0-0 1.00 .958% 1SO
Hurricanes
Graham Hood 1-0-1
Craig Leverton 1-0-1
Landon Oslanski 1-0-1
Damien Ketlo 0-2-0-0 2.02 .941%, Liam Liston 0-1-0-0 3.04 .909%
Streaks
Jese Ismond 5 games 1-5-6
Elgin Pearce 2 games 4-0-4
Home
Max Reinhart 6-11-17
Elgin Pearce 10-6-16
Jesse Ismond 7-9-16
Joey Leach 5-9-14
Dylen McKinlay 4-7-11
Joe Antilla 2-8-10
Eric Benoit 5-4-9
Brock Montgomery 3-6-9
Sam Reinhart 4-4-8
Drew Czerwonka 3-4-7
Adam Rossignol 3-3-6
Nathan Lieuwen 8-3-1-0 2.47 .916% 1 SO
Mackenzie Skapski 3-2-0-0 2.42 .904%
Road
Sam Reinhart 6-17-23
Max Reinhart 10-11-21
Jesse Ismond 4-13-17
Drew Czerwonka 6-7-13
Joe Antilla 2-11-13
Brock Montgomery 7-4-11
Luke Paulsen 1-8-9
Elgin Pearce 4-4-8
Eric Benoit 3-4-7
Joey Leach 2-5-7
Dylen McKinlay 2-5-7
Jagger Dirk 1-6-7
Nathan Lieuwen 8-5-0-2 1.81 .935% 1 SO
Mackenzie Skapski 2-0-0-0 3.69 .859%