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Preview: Oil Kings at Lethbridge Hurricanes 3.13.24

March 13, 2024 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Edmonton Oil Kings News Release


EDMONTON OIL KINGS (23-36-3-1) vs. LETHBRIDGE HURRICANES (30-27-5-0) -

MARCH 13, 2024 - ENMAX CENTRE - 7:00 PM

2023-24 Schedule vs. Lethbridge

Friday, Sept 29 @ Edmonton (4-3 SO LETH)

Sunday, Oct 1 @ Edmonton (8-5 EDM)

Monday, Oct 9 @ Edmonton (5-2 LETH)

Tuesday, Jan 30 @ Lethbridge (4-2 LETH)

Friday, Feb 23 @ Lethbridge (2-1 EDM)

Wednesday, Mar 13 @ Lethbridge

Matchup Notes

Tonight marks the 6th and final meeting in the regular season between the 2 clubs. Lethbridge has won 3 of the 5 previous meetings.

Adam Jecho leads all Oil Kings in scoring during the season series with five points (3G, 2A), while Noah Chadwick (1G, 4A) leads the way for the Hurricanes in the head to head with five points.

All-time, the Oil Kings and Hurricanes have met 103 times in the regular season with the Oil Kings holding a record of 55-38-2-8.

Coming In

The Oil Kings wrapped up their final multi-game road trip of the 2023/24 regular season, a stretch of 3 games in 4 nights through Saskatchewan.

Edmonton dropped the first contest, an 8-2 decision to the Swift Current Broncos, responded two nights later with an overtime win in Prince Albert against the Raiders. Then finished it off with a gutsy effort, unfortunately ending in a 2-1 OT loss to the Saskatoon Blades. The Oil Kings have 2 road games remaining on the schedule (tonight, and on March 23 in Red Deer).

Coming in, Edmonton holds a 5-4-1 record over the last 10 games and holds on to 10th spot in the Eastern Conference with 50 points.

The Oil Kings have allowed 2 goals against or less in 3 of their last 4 outings.

EOK Notables

€” Oil Kings Goalie Kolby Hay was named the WHL Goalie of the Week on March 12th. He held a 1-0-1 record through his 2 starts, including a 1.96 GAA and a .938 save percentage. This was the first time the 19 year old had achieved the accolade.

€” Oil Kings Forward Matthew Williams suited up for his first Western Hockey League game on Saturday night in Saskatoon.

€” Oil Kings Defenseman Ethan MacKenzie returned to the lineup on Friday vs Prince Albert after missing 41 games with an upper body injury. He's plus 1 in the 2 games he's played since returning.

€” Oil Kings defenceman Marc Lajoie sits 14th in defenceman points (48), 2nd in defenceman goals (20), 1st in defenceman PP goals (11) and 7th in defenceman PP points (26) in the WHL. His 11 power play goals rank tied for 6th overall in the entire WHL amongst all skaters.

€” Oil Kings defenceman Marc Lajoie is in 5th for the most career power play goals by an Oil Kings defenceman in franchise history with 11 trailing only Griffin Reinhart (12), Cody Corbett (12), Aaron Irving (13) and Conner McDonald (14).

LETH Notables

€” Hurricanes Brayden Edwards is plus 9 in his last 6 contests, and has 9 points (6G, 3A) during that span.

€” Since going 3-6-2 in February, the Hurricanes are 4-1 in March and are tied for 7th in the Eastern Conference standings.

Milestone Watch

€” F Smyth Rebman is 2 games away from 100 career WHL games.

€” F Ty Nash is 7 assists away from 100 career WHL assists.

€” D Marc Lajoie is 5 assists away from 100 career WHL assists.

€” F Skyler Bruce is 3 goals away from 50 career WHL goals.

Lineup Report

€” F Presley Kerner, lower-body, week-to-week (Games missed: 12)

Streaks

€” F Gracyn Sawchyn is on a 2-game point streak (2g-1a-3pts).

Who's Hot

€” F Landon Hansen has 4 points (2G, 2A) in his last 6 games.

€” F Ty Nash has 24 points (6G, 18A) in his last 23 games.

€” F Gracyn Sawchyn has 22 points (6G, 16A) in his last 20 games.

€” F Gavin Hodnett has 15 points (6G, 9A) in his last 15 games.

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