A few stats
OK, are the Canes gonna beat the Ice? Yes, 4 games to 3 with each team winning one on the road. Get ready for a home ice win in a fantastic game 7!!!!!!!!!!
Statiscally we match up or beat them every which way.............except of course in victories. Some people say the regular season means nothing but in this case the 5-1 advantage Ice really does mean nothing. We outplayed them in many of the games but for numerous reasons we did not win. Remember the first game..............we were up 4-0 and the Canes totally quit playing, and they came back to win 5-4. We lost the 4th game (New Years eve) badly and some say it was our worst played game of the year. We had just come off 2 huge games against Calgary (having pounded them in the second game) and maybe were happy with ourselves; and after all it was New Years eve. We lost 4 games by 1 goal so those were very close. The Hurricanes outshot them in almost every game but Lazaruk outplayed Manny by a lot. The last 2 games we had Juha in net and outplayed them by quite a bit in both. Those last 2 games are more indicitave of what the Canes can and will bring in the playoffs. The shots in the last 2 games were 71-45 Canes and the goal tally was 8-3 Canes.
THE MAIN REASON WE WERE 1-5 IS BOYCHUK AND SBISA DID NOT PLAY IN 3 OF THE GAMES (World Juniors) AND NIETHER DID METSOLA PLAY IN THOSE GAMES. Arguably those 3 players were our top players against the Wheat Kings in the playoffs and as such will make the difference in this series. Yes the Ice have Maxwell back but I'll take our 3 against their 1 player, of those that missed a lot of games against each other.
SEASON SERIES 5-1 KOOTENAY
09-28 = Kootenay 5 at Lethbridge 4
12-14 = Kootenay 4 at Lethbridge 3
12-15 = Lethbridge 3 at Kootenay 4
12-31 = Lethbridge 2 at Kootenay 5
02-12 = Kootenay 1 at Lethbridge 7
03-12 = Lethbridge 1 at Kootenay 2
GOALS = ICE 21 CANES 20
SHOTS = CANES 199 ICE 164
GP G A PTS PIM +/-
Mitch Fadden 6 5 4 9 12 +2
Dwight King 6 4 5 9 2 +3
Zach Boychuk 3 2 4 6 8 +2
Nicholas Hotson 5 2 4 6 0 +3
Jeff May 2 0 4 4 5 E
Colton Sceviour 5 3 0 3 6 +3
Cam Braes 6 2 1 3 2 -2
Carter Bancks 6 1 2 3 0 +1
Jesse Craige 4 0 3 3 0 -2
Ben Wright 6 0 3 3 4 E
Mike Wuchterl 5 1 1 2 30 -1
Luca Sbisa 3 0 2 2 5 E
Lucas Alexiuk 4 0 1 1 17 +1
Mitch Versteeg 5 0 1 1 17 E
Craig Orfino 6 0 1 1 0 -2
Brennan Yadlowski 4 0 0 0 4 +1
Paul MacDonald 4 0 0 0 4 0 -2
Luke Wiens 4 0 0 0 2 0
Carter Ashton 4 0 0 0 0 0
Adam Chorneyko 5 0 0 0 19 -5
Dan Iwanski 6 0 0 0 4 -3
Cam Stevens 1 0 0 0 6 N/A
Jacob Dietrich 1 0 0 0 2 -1
Nick Dietrich 1 0 0 0 2 -1
Travis Bobbee 1 0 0 0 2 E
Yashar Farmanara 1 0 0 0 2 -1
Brock Sutherland 1 0 0 0 0 N/A
Ryan Kerr 1 0 0 0 0 E
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GP Min GA W L OTL GAA SV%
Metsola 2 119 3 1 1 0 1.51 0.933
Maniago 4 235 18 0 4 0 4.59 0.849
GOALS FOR/AGAINST:
WITH MANNY IN NET = ICE 18 CANES 12
WITH JUHA IN NET = CANES 8 ICE 3
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GAMES WITH BOYCHUK and SBISA
SHOTS = CANES 109 ICE 81
GOALS = CANES 12 ICE 8
GAMES WITHOUT BOYCHUK and SBISA
SHOTS = CANES 90 ICE 83
GOALS = ICE 13 CANES 8
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SHOTS AT HOME
CANES 107 ICE 87
SHOTS ON ROAD
CANES 92 ICE 77
GOALS AT HOME
CANES 14 ICE 10
GOALS ON ROAD
ICE 11 CANES 6
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CANES OUTSHOT OR TIED IN SHOTS WITH THE ICE IN 5 OF 6 GAMES AND OUTSHOT THEM 71 - 45 IN LAST 2 GAMES.
OVERALL CANES AVERAGED 33 SHOTS/GAMES AGAINST THE ICE.
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