No discipline for the hit.

Was searching for video of the two big hits from Game two this morning but didn't have any luck. Looks like Jesse Ismond won't play Wednesday (as per Jeff Hollick's blog) after he was knocked out from a hit by Warrior D Dylan McIlrath that resulted in a major and game misconduct. It also looks like there won't be any discipline from the collision that resulted in Dallas Erhardt leaving the game. His status is unknown and I'm not sure the Warriors submitted it for supplementary discipline. Rossignol will likely get the call after being a healthy scratch the first two games.

Was looking for video of Chilliwack's TC Cratsenberg's charging major against Spokane Saturday but no-go. Wanted to compare the two.

So if anybody finds any please leave a link.

Saw Ice first round bantam pick Sam Reinhart around the rink before the weekend's games. Before you scream lace 'em up Reinhart's Midget club, the Vancouver Northwest Giants, are still playing and as such he isn't eligible. The Giants host the Red Deer Rebels, champions of the Alberta Midget League, this weekend in a best-of-three affair. The winner goes to the Telus Cup.

Highlites of Saturday's game are here Matt Coxford has a gamer here.

Rivalry doesn't motivate old teammates

by Jeff Bromley

Their careers are approaching full circle and the intertwinement of their positions are at a head. Despite the hype of goaltenders Nathan Lieuwen and Thomas Heemskerk facing off head-to-head in round one of the WHL Playoffs, their motivation certainly isn't each other.

Well, almost.

"You want to prove the team right and prove him wrong" said Ice goaltender Nathan Lieuwen, who was the goaltender remaining in Cranbrook once Heemskerk left the club in early December of 2008. "But once you get on the ice that's all gone. There's enough motivation out there to keep you going."

For the 20-year-old Heemskerk, his modus operandi doesn't start and stop with his former teammate, though he'll admit it crossed his mind before the series started.

"It's not that Nathan Lieuwen's at the other end is why I want to win this series. I just want to win," said Heemskerk after Game 2. "Maybe back then (when he left the Ice), that's how I felt. But that was so long ago now, that's not what's going through my head at this point."

Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-seven series didn't solve much. Heemskerk got the early edge as he shut out the Ice 4-0 in game one, stopping 30 shots. Lieuwen struck back Saturday night, stopping 18 shots to even the series.

Looking for the edge in the series Heemskerk's been the busier of the two former teammates keeping Game 2 from turning into a blowout and backstopping any comeback attempt in Game 1.

"This isn't going to be easy," said Heemskerk. "But we'll take 1-1 going back to Moose Jaw."

It is fitting that the two puckstoppers would have this opportunity to forever put to rest the question of which goaltender should've stayed in Cranbrook over two years ago. This town clearly wasn't big enough for both of them.

Since sharing the goaltending duties in Major Midget with the Fraser Valley Bruins in 2006-07, the two have competed for ice-time. They did it again two seasons later in Cranbrook.

More recently they've competed for points in the standings for their respective teams and now they're competing for the right to move to the second-round.

After winning the back-up job behind Kris Lazaruk in 2007 when Lieuwen suffered a concussion in a vehicle roll-over and was subsequently sent to Junior A in Westside, the next season the two battled for the starter's job right up until Heemskerk left the club on December 4, 2008 citing personal reasons.

Before the end of the month Heemskerk was dealt to the Everett Silvertips for a third round pick in the 2010 Bantam Draft (F Jaedon Descheneau of Edmonton). Earlier this season the Warriors acquired Heemskerk from the Silvertips in exchange for D Chad Suer, also 20.

Playoff success had eluded both goaltenders but if you're keeping score it's Heemskerk with the signed NHL contract with the San Jose Sharks in 2009 that's given him the edge in the career department.

Right now Lieuwen's just dealing with the fact that his former teammate got a shutout in Game 1 and that he's got to be better if the Ice are going to move on in this series.

"It gets frustrating sometimes," said Lieuwen of Game 1's result. "But when it comes down to it, we're just playing hockey and that's all my mind's on."

Clearly the former teammates are dying to beat each other and prove they're the better goaltender, but in this series it will be their actions and not words that will do it.

Round three of the battle goes Tuesday in Moose Jaw.