The Kootenay Ice won their third straight Tuesday night with a 3-2 win over the Prince George Cougars in the Northern BC City. The win was the club's third in three-games of the nine-game road trip through BC and the Prairies over the next one and a half weeks.
It was the Reinhart brothers night once again as elder sibling Max scored the eventual game-winner with a short-handed marker in the third period for the 3-2 win.
D Joe Leach opened the scoring for the Ice before the Cougars tied it and then took a 2-1 lead in the second period on goals by Campbell Elynuik and Charles Inglis. Sam Reinhart's 8th point (2g, 6a) in the last three games tied the game with his 6th of the season with 4:20 left in the second.
Max had a goal and an assist and has 8 points (3g 5a) in his last four games and his 11th of the season was the game-winner.
Joe Antilla had two assists.
The Ice improve to 16-5-1-2 and 35 points but the Blades won in a shootout over the Tigers to maintain their two-point lead. The Ice are now alone in second in the Eastern Conference and the WHL behind the Blades.
Mackenzie Skapski stopped 18 of 20 shots for his 5th win of the season.
F Jesse Ismond sat out his one game suspension for breaking team rules leaving Dylen McKinlay, Luke Paulsen and Elgin Pearce still to serve theirs. Mike Simpson (healthy) and Eric Benoit (upper body, one week) were the other scratches.
The crowd in Prince George was 1605 in the 6000-seat CN Centre.
The Ice are in Kamloops for a big test tomorrow night.
3 comments:
1605 attendance in PG and people talk about ours and it is up over 300 over last year/...Un-Real, Attendance like that should get us out of the lime lite one would think....GO ICE GO!!!!!
Those media guys like Russell, Wilms and Drinnan like to natter at the Ice because of all our success. Are we the Montreal Canadians of years gone by with all our success???
Haven't heard much nattering by those guys but you can't argue with the on-ice success.
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