The Kootenay ICE will visit Spokane tonight in the 3rd meeting of the season.
The season series is tied 1-1 with the road team winning each game.
December 28th in Cranbrook – Chiefs 1-0
December 29th in Spokane – ICE 7-3
The ICE beat Medicine Hat 7-5 last night, have won 7 games in a row and the streak started in Spokane.
The Chiefs lost 5-2 in Portland last night.
ICE injuries – None.
Chiefs injuries – Tanner Mort upper body indefinite.
ICE – vs US Division 1-4-0-0, on Road 4-12-0-0, in January 5-0-0-0, in Overtime 1-1, in Shootouts 2-0.
Chiefs – vs Central Division 2-2-0-0, at Home 14-5-0-0, in January 3-2-0-0, in Overtime 1-1, in Shootouts 1-0.
Milestone Update
15 players have played 250 or more games with the ICE and Joey Leach is at 244.
Nigel Dawes, Jarret Stoll and Dean Arsene finished at 245.
Brock Montgomery (52 goals) is the 26th player to surpass 50 career goals.
Sam Reinhart has 49.
Joey Leach is 6th in all-time defenseman goals with 24 (Chad Greenan is next with 25), 5th in all-time defenseman assists with 96 (Mike Busto in next with 98) and 6th in all-time defenseman points with 120 (Chad Greenan is next with 123).
Sam Reinhart is the 30th player in Franchise history with over 100 career points.
Brock Montgomery has 97.
Joey Leach is 1st with an all-time +/- of +84, Dustin Sylvester is 2nd at +64.
Mackenzie Skapski is 10th with 28 career wins. (9th 30 Clayton Pool, 8th 31 BJ Boxma, 7th 33 Bryan Bridges)
Ryan McGill is 2nd with 191 career regular season wins, Cory Clouston is 1st with 209.
Listen to the Pre-Game Show at 7:30 on The Drive.
Leaders
ICE
Goals – 19 Reinhart
Assists – 26 Descheneau
Points – 42 Reinhart
Defenseman – 19 Dirk, Leach
Rookie – 23 Philp
PM – 76 Hubic
+/- - +10 Leach
Goalies – Skapski 3.12 .900% 3 SO, Hoflin 3.67 .880%
Chiefs
Goals – 28 Fiddler
Assists – 37 Kichton
Points – 51 Fiddler
Defenseman – 50 Kichton
Rookie – 13 Helewka
PM – 131 Proft
+/- - +29 Aviani
Goalies – Williams 2.95 .897% 2 SO, Hughson 3.33 .880% 1 SO
Head to Head
ICE
Reinhart 2-2-4
Descheneau 0-3-3
Vetterl 1-1-2
Leach 1-0-1
Cable 1-0-1
Faith 1-0-1
Skapski 1-1-0-0 2.01 .940%
PP – 25.0%
PK – 88.9%
Chiefs
Fiddler 3-0-3
Kichton 0-2-2
Walchuk 1-0-1
Williams 1-1-0-0 3.00 .898% 1 SO
Hughson 0-0-0-0 6.00 .714%
Streaks
Leach 7 games 2-8-10
Descheneau 5 games 2-6-8
Reinhart 5 games 6-2-8
Dirk 2 games 0-2-2
Home
Reinhart 15-13-28
Descheneau 6-15-21
Montgomery 13-6-19
Philp 6-9-15
Cable – 3-11-14
Leach 2-11-13
Dirk 2-10-12
Shirley 6-2-8
O’Connor 4-4-8
Skapski 12-6-0-0 2.85 .902% 2 SO
Hoflin 1-6-1-0-0 3.25 .881%
PP – 17.1%
PK – 78.7%
Road
Reinhart 4-10-14
Descheneau 2-11-13
Philp 6-2-8
Montgomery 5-2-7
Dirk 0-7-7
Leach 1-5-6
Cable 2-3-5
Skapski 4-10-0-0 3.47 .899% 1 SO
Hoflin 0-2-0-0 6.03 .875%
PP – 11.7%
PK – 68.3%