The Lethbridge Hurricanes and Moose Jaw Warriors will face each other four times this season and they’ll play each other twice in less than a week starting with tonight’s game. The Hurricanes enter tonight’s game coming off a 5-4 OT loss to Kamloops last night and currently sit 10th in the East Conference with a record of 4-6-1-0. The Warriors opened up a mini 2-game road trip in Edmonton last night and fell 5-1 to the Oil Kings. 

In 2011-2012 the Hurricanes and Warriors played 4 times last season with the Warriors winning the season series 3-1. Lethbridge won their final meeting of the year on March 6^th, by a score of 2-1. Against the Warriors, the Canes are led by Adam Henry who has 4 points (1G, 3A), while Brady Ramsay, Sam McKechnie and Dan Johnston all have 2 points.

2011-2012 Season Matchup:

October 5^th: Lethbridge (2) – Moose Jaw (3)

February 8^th: Lethbridge (3) – Moose Jaw (5)

March 3^rd: Lethbridge (2) – Moose Jaw (6)

March 6^th: Lethbridge (2) – Moose Jaw (1)

Powerplay: Lethbridge: 3/15 – Moose Jaw: 4/18

Shots on Goal: Lethbridge: 91 – Moose Jaw: 145

2012 – 2013 Stats:

Points (11) – Russell Maxwell

Goals (8) – Russell Maxwell

Assists (6) – Axel Blomqvist

PIM’s (31) – Jaimen Yakubowski           

Plus/Minus (+2) – Axel Blomqvist, Reid Duke, Lenny Hackman, Daniel Johnston

Overall Powerplay: 9/54 (16.7%)                                            Home Powerplay: 6/34 (17.6%)

Overall Penalty Kill: 16/47 (66.0%)                                        Home Penalty Kill: 8/28 (71.4%)

Division Comparison:

vs. Central Division:               2-2-0-0

vs. East Division:                  1-2-0-0

vs. BC Division:                      1-0-1-0

vs. US Division:                      0-2-0-0

Hot Hand:

Jay Merkley (3G) is on a 3 game point streak

Dan Johnston (1G, 1A) Russ Maxwell (3G, 1A) Brady Ramsay (1G, 3A) Axel Blomqvist (3A) are on 2 game point streaks.

Top Scorers – Lethbridge:                                      Top Scorers – Moose Jaw:

Russell Maxwell: 8G, 3A – 11 points                        Sam Fioretti: 10G, 8A – 18 points

Jaimen Yakubowski: 4G, 3A – 7 points                    Morgan Rielly: 3G, 11A – 14 points

Daniel Johnston: 3G, 3A – 6 points                          Brayden Point: 4G, 6A – 10 points

Macoy Erkamps: 1G, 5A – 6 points                          Torrin White: 3G, 5A – 8 points

(Axel Blomqvist: 0G, 6A – 6 points)

Milestone Watch:

Spencer Galbraith – 2 PIM’s away from 200 for his career

Russ Maxwell – played in his 150^th career game on October 17^th vs. Brandon

Ty Rimmer – played in his 100^th career regular season WHL game Oct 6^th vs. Spokane. Rimmer is also 1 shutout shy from 10 in his career

Remi Laurencelle – recorded his first career WHL goal vs. Spokane October 6^th 2012.

Axel Blomqvist – recorded his first career WHL point with 1 assist vs. Spokane on October 6^th, 2012

Joel Topping – recorded his first career WHL point with 1 assist vs. Tri City (his brother Mitch’s team) on October 5^th, 2012

Graham Hood – hit the 100 career point milestone with 1 assist vs. Kootenay on September 29^th, 2012

Brady Ramsay  - hit the 50 point milestone with 1 assist vs. Kamloops on October 19^th, 2012

COMMUNITY CORNER:

Tonight we’re introducing “Social Media Saturday” We want YOU to pick the Hardest Working Hurricane by sending us your vote on Twitter. Be sure to follow us on @WHLHurricanes and “tweet” us who you think tonight’s Hardest Working Hurricane is. We’re also giving away tickets to Marianas Trench during the game. Head over to our Facebook page as well and the first person to correctly tell us what the final score will be between Moose Jaw and the Hurricanes will win a $20 gift certificate to Husky & Mohawk.

The Lethbridge Hurricanes are proud to announce that “OKTOBERFEST” is coming!!

Join us on Friday, October 26^th (vs. Regina) or on Saturday, October 27^th (Swift Current) for Oktoberfest. For only $19 dollars per person, you’ll enjoy a ticket to the Hurricanes game, 1 Beer and 1 Bratwurst all for only 19 dollars per person. For more details contact the Hurricanes office at (403) 328-1986.

*This offer is for GROUPS OF 15 OR MORE ONLY.

Every Friday home game throughout the season is also “Food Bank Fridays”.  Be sure to bring a non-perishable food item for the Lethbridge Food Bank. Also look for the Food Bank on the concourse and be sure to enter your name into draw for a weekly prize (winners announced during the game) Help us help the Food Bank on October 19^th, and 26^th.

EXCLUSIVE for Season Ticket Holders:

This season we’re introducing the Perfect Attendance! We want to reward our Season Ticket Holders for their perfect attendance. If their season ticket is scanned for every home game during the Hurricanes 2012-2013 regular season, they will be entered in a draw to win a free season ticket in 2013-2014.

Next up: After wrapping up a stretch of 6 straight games at home, the Lethbridge Hurricanes will now hit the road for a pair of games in Saskatchewan. The Canes next action is Tuesday, October 23^rd when they visit the Swift Current Broncos. Game time will be at 7:00pm and you can tune in to 94.1 CJOC starting at 6:30 to hear the pre-game show with Pat Siedlecki. Remember, at home or on the road you can follow your Lethbridge Hurricanes with news and team headlines on Twitter @WHLHurricanes, play by play analysis @CanesCast or by checking out our website at www.lethbridgehurricanes.com.  Fans can also follow us on our Official Facebook Fan Page at facebook.com/WHLHurricanes or check out the game live on WHL Web TV - log on to whl.ca for details and pricing. Fans can also drop by Pop's Pub South to watch the WHL Webcast live as they present all 36 Hurricanes road games this season.