Tuesday 26 February 2013

Preview: Lethbridge at Victoria (Feb 27)

The Victoria Royals (32-24-1-4, 69 points) look to snap a winless in 6 stretch as they entertain the Lethbridge Hurricanes (25-28-2-7, 59 points) Wednesday.

Pregame show at 6:40 on The Zone @ 91.3 fm or online at www.thezone.fm/listen

It’s the second and final meeting of the season with Victoria dropping a 4-2 decision in Lethbridge November 7th.

The Hurricanes are also winless in 6, and as they kick off their 3 game BC Division road trip, playing next in Vancouver and Kelowna before returning home.

Lethbridge just wrapped up a 3 game homestand with a 2-0 loss at the Kootenay Ice Sunday, and fell by the same score two nights earlier to Red Deer.

Victoria opened a five game homestand with a pair of losses to Kelowna, 7-2 Saturday and 8-3 the night before.

The Royals are 6th in the West, 5 points back of the 5th place Chiefs who are playing Wednesday at the Silvertips.  Victoria has a game in hand on Spokane, and will entertain them for a pair of games Friday and Saturday.

Lethbridge is 9th in the Eastern Conference, 5 points back of 8th place Kootenay, both with 10 games remaining.  The Hurricanes are 6 games under .500 on the road this season (9-15-1-4), while the Royals boast a 12 over .500 record on home ice (19-7-1-2).

With one more win, the team can tie the franchise record for most wins in a season, held by the Chilliwack Bruins (33-31-4-4, 74pts) in ’10-11.

Netminder Ty Rimmer broke the Hurricanes’ franchise record for single season saves last week with 1,838.

Hurricanes Injuries
#4 Albin Blomqvist, D, upper body, indefinite
#26 Axel Blomqvist, F, lower body, day to day
#23 Graham Hood, F, upper body, day to day
#5 Dan Johnston, D, upper body, 2 - 4 weeks

Royals Injuries
#17 Alex Gogolev, F, lower body, 5 - 7 days
#28 Luke Harrison, F, upper body, indefinite
#16 Trent Lofthouse, F, upper body, 1 - 3 weeks
#7 Tyler Stahl, D, lower body, day to day
Previous Meetings This Season Victoria 2 @ Lethbridge 4 (Nov 7 2012) Final

How the 2 teams match up
Lethbridge
Victoria
Team Record 25-28-2-7 -- 59 points 32-24-1-4 -- 69 points
Division Ranking 6th Central 3rd B.C.
Conference Ranking 9th Eastern 6th Western
League Ranking 15th 11th
Past 10 Games 2-7-1-0 4-5-0-1
Streak 0-5-1-0 0-5-0-1
Last Game 2-0 L vs Kootenay (Feb 24 2013) Final 7-2 L vs Kelowna (Feb 23 2013) Final
Home Record 16-13-1-3 19-7-1-2
Away Record 9-15-1-4 13-17-0-2
GF 185  194 
GA 204  211 
PP (Overall) (50/283) 17.7 (64/292) 21.9
PP (Home) (31/168) 18.5 (30/134) 22.4
PP (Away) (19/115) 16.5 (34/158) 21.5
PK (Overall) (61/273) 77.7 (60/280) 78.6
PK (Home) (30/136) 77.9 (25/121) 79.3
PK (Away) (31/137) 77.4 (35/159) 78.0
Leading Rookie Blomqvist (7-26-33) Hicketts (2-18-20)
Most PIM Yakubowski - 118 Carroll - 138
Team PIM/GM 17.4/Game 19.4/Game
Leading Scorers Yakubowski (31-16-47) Gogolev (20-45-65)
Maxwell (19-27-46) Magee (28-27-55)
Mckechnie (24-16-40) Crooks (30-16-46)
Ramsay (11-23-34) Walker (17-25-42)
Johnston (8-26-34) Hodges (25-16-41)
Last 5 Games 2-0 L vs Kootenay (Feb 24 2013) Final 7-2 L vs Kelowna (Feb 23 2013) Final
2-0 L vs Red Deer (Feb 22 2013) Final 8-3 L vs Kelowna (Feb 22 2013) Final
5-4 L vs Prince George (Feb 16 2013) Final 5-2 L @ Edmonton (Feb 17 2013) Final
5-2 L @ Saskatoon (Feb 9 2013) Final 3-1 L @ Calgary (Feb 16 2013) Final
2-1 L @ Prince Albert (Feb 8 2013) Final OT 2-1 L @ Red Deer (Feb 15 2013) Final SO
Leading After 1st 15-6-0-4 16-5-0-1
Leading After 2nd 17-1-0-2 20-0-0-2
Tied After 1st 1-7-1-3 11-5-1-2
Tied After 2nd 4-1-0-5 2-1-1-1
Trailing After 1st 9-15-1-0 5-14-0-1
Trailing After 2nd 4-26-2-0 10-23-0-1
Out Shooting Opponents 11-8-1-2 12-6-0-2
Out Shot by Opponents 13-20-1-5 18-18-1-2
1-Goal Games 6-8-2-7 14-2-1-4
2-Goal Games 8-6-0-0 8-4-0-0
3-Goal Games 6-8-0-0 5-9-0-0