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Preview: Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels 2.16.24

February 16, 2024 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
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EDMONTON OIL KINGS (16-32-2-1) vs. RED DEER REBELS(28-17-2-6) -

FEBRUARY 16, 2024 - PEAVEY MART CENTRIUM - 7:00 PM

2023-24 Schedule vs. Red Deer Rebels

Friday, Sept 22 @ Red Deer (4-2 Edm)

Saturday, Sept 23 @ Edmonton (4-3 RD)

Sunday, Oct 15 @ Edmonton (5-2 RD)

Tuesday, Oct 17 @ Edmonton (4-0 RD)

Saturday, Jan 13 @ Red Deer (4-1 RD)

Friday, Jan 26 @ Red Deer (6-3 RD)

Friday, Feb 16 @ Red Deer

Saturday, Feb 17 @ Edmonton

Saturday, Mar 23 @ Red Deer

Sunday, Mar 24 @ Edmonton

Matchup Notes

Tonight marks the 7th of 10 meetings in the regular season between the 2 clubs. Red Deer has won 5 of the 6 previous meetings.

Marc Lajoie leads all Oil Kings in scoring during the season series with five points (1G, 4A), while Kai Uchacz (7G, 4A) leads the way for the Rebels in the head to head with eleven points.

All-time, the Oil Kings and Rebels have met 114 times in the regular season with the Oil Kings holding a record of 55-46-7-7.

Coming In

The Oil Kings dropped their 7th game in a row on Saturday night, 9-4 at the hands of the Regina Pats. The loss marked their 5 game in 7 nights road trip, where they picked up zero of a possible 10 points.

Edmonton stormed out of the gate when Cole Miller broke down the right win and snapped a wrist shot over the glove hand of Pats Goalie Ewan Huet to open the scoring, only 1:36 into the hockey game. Regina answered back, tallying 3 times before the end of period 1.

A critical moment of the game happened mere moments into period 2 when Pats Forward Sam Oremba drove the net on the powerplay and Edmonton Goalie Kolby Hay thought he covered the puck, the play was blown down and the Pats scored following the whistle. After a lengthy review, it was over turned and called a goal. Regina never looked back.

Defenseman Marc Lajoie scored late in the 3rd period, which was his 19th of the year and moved him into a tie with Conner McDonald for most goals all time by a rear guard.

EOK Notables

€” Oil Kings defenceman Marc Lajoie tied Conner McDonald (19, 2018-19) during Saturday's game vs Regina for a share of the all-time franchise goal total for a defenseman.

€” Oil Kings defenceman Marc Lajoie sits 11th in defenceman points (40), 2nd in defenceman goals (18), 1st in defenceman PP goals (11) and tied for 4th in defenceman PP points (23) in the WHL. His 11 power play goals rank tied for 4th overall in the entire WHL amongst all skaters.

€” Oil Kings defenceman Marc Lajoie is in for 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).

€” Oil Kings forward Adam Jecho is 13th in WHL rookie scoring with 33 points (16G, 17A) in just 35 games.

€” The Oil Kings lead the WHL in attendance (5,988 avg.).

RDR Notables

€” Rebels Forward Samuel Drancak is 21st in WHL rookie scoring with 25 points (8 G, 17 A) in 55 games.

€” Rebels Forward Kai Uchacz is 6 points away from 200 in his Western Hockey League career.

€” Rebels Forward Kai Uchacz leads with Western Hockey League with 230 shots taken. The next closest player behind him has 159.

€” Red Deer Goalie Chase Wutzke is 6th in the Western Hockey League with a GAA of 2.61 in 27 appearances during the 2023/24 campaign.

Milestone Watch

€” F Gracyn Sawchyn registered his 100th career WHL point last Friday vs Swift Current.

€” G Kolby Hay made his 3,000th career WHL save last Wednesday vs Brandon.

€” D Ismail Abougouche registered his 1st assist as an Oil King last Wednesday vs Brandon.

€” F Gracyn Sawchyn is 4 games away from 100 career WHL games.

€” F Ty Nash is 10 games away from 250 career WHL games.

€” F Ty Nash is 6 points away from 150 career WHL points.

€” D Marc Lajoie is 11 assists away from 100 career WHL assists.

€” F Gavin Hodnett is 7 points away from 100 career WHL points.

Lineup Report

€” D Ethan MacKenzie, upper-body, week-to-week (Games missed: 26).

€” F Presley Kerner, lower-body, week-to-week (Games miss: 1)

Streaks

€” F Joe Iginla is on a 2-game point streak (1g-1a-2pts).

Who's Hot

€” F Gavin Hodnett has 47 points (13G, 34A) in his last 40 games.

€” D Skyler Bruce has 5 points in his last 5 games (5A)

€” F Ty Nash has 12 points (4G, 8A) in his last 12 games.

€” F Adam Jecho has 22 points (10G, 12A) in his last 26 games.

€” F Gracyn Sawchyn has 27 points (8G, 19A) in his last 25 games.

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