A solid performance by the Lethbridge Hurricanes Wednesday night. After a scoreless first period, the Hurricanes and Prince Albert Raiders exchanged 8 goals, with the Canes' notching 6 en route to 6-2 victory. The Hurricanes are now back to the .500 mark with a record of 10-10-0-1. It was, I thought the best played game by Lethbridge in a number of weeks. The club played a solid 60-minutes and looked quite good keeping up the pressure in the P-A zone. Lethbridge also did a good job limiting those turnovers we saw to be problematic in previous games over the past while. That, as well as getting a few good bounces for a change also helped out the fortunes of this hockey team.
Is it me or does Carter Ashton look like a man possessed lately?! He's ramped up his game 3 or 4 notches in the past couple of weeks and seems to be using every asset he has to control the play. Mind you playing with Zach Boychuk and Colton Sceviour doesn't hurt either, but Ashton has been more of dominant player lately for the Canes'. I think that's the Carter Ashton Hurricanes management envisioned before this season even started.
Speaking of Colton Sceviour, he was a late scratch Wednesday. He was seen walking around in a suit with a bandage over one of his wrists. Talking with Associate Coach Matt Kabayama in our post game show the other night, it could've been a reaggravation of an older injury. His status for tonight's game against Medicine Hat isn't known right now.
This'll be the 4th meeting of the year between the Canes' and Tigers with The Hat holding the edge in the season series 2-1. The Tigers have turned their season around since a slow start. They're 14-7-2-3 heading into this game tonight. They've played 3 more games than Lethbridge on the year so far, in what is again looking like another interesting Eastern Conference.
I guess there's no place like home as they say and I think the same goes for the Canes' right now. They're an impressive 9 and 3 on home ice, but have struggled away from the friendly confines of the Enmax Centre. Tomorrow the Hurricanes will close out 3 games in 4 nights with a trip into Red Deer to take on a much improved Rebels team.
Tonight's game against the Tigers is a 7pm start with the pre-game show on CJOC at 6:30 with myself and Dick Gibson.
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