OMAHA (2-4-0-0) @ TRI-CITY (5-3-0-0) Friday, Oct. 16 7:05 p.m. CDT Viaero Center
OMAHA vs. TRI-CITY Saturday, Oct. 17 6:05 p.m. CDT Liberty First Credit Union Arena
The Lancers: Lancers are 97-92-7-7 all-time in regular-season play when facing off with Tri-City… Have not scored more than three goals in regulation time against the Storm since April 13, 2024… The Lancers are 49-27-1-3 all-time when racking up 30 shots or more against Tri-City… Lancers are 40-12-2-0 all-time against the Storm when a Lancers' d-man scores a goal… Lancers are 18-15-5-2 against the Tri-City Storm in the month of October…
The Storm: Lead the league in both first-period (14) and third-period (17) goals scored this season… Also leads the league in empty-net goals scored so far this season with 6… Leads the league with 5 different penalty infractions committed so far this season (Slashing, High-Sticking, Unsportsmanlike, Hooking, and Checking from Behind)… Scored a power-play goal against Omaha in 6 of their 8 meetings last season… In the last two meetings with Omaha last season, each team got a goal from a D-man… That's the first time a D-man from each squad had scored a goal in consecutive meetings since December 28, 2014-January 3, 2015…
Special Teams To Be A Difference This Weekend?: The Lancers have scored just three power-play goals so far this season, all of which came in the Fall Classic back in September… The Lancers have scored two short-handed goals so far this season... The Lancers also scored a short-handed goal in each of their last two matchups with Tri-City last season… The Lancers are 19-5-1-0 against the Storm when scoring a short-handed goal… On the power play, the Tri-City Storm have scored a power-play marker against Omaha in 6 of their last 8 matchups… before those 8 meetings, Omaha held Tri-City scoreless on the power play for 10 consecutive meetings…
Lancers To Watch: Forward Adam Israilov is back and the second-year veteran Russian winger came back with a bang, netting his first career game-winning goal in a 2-1 win at Cedar Rapids… Defenseman Reese Lantz is currently without a point through his first six games this season… The former Muskegon Lumberjack is currently on an 8-game point drought dating back to March 29th of last season, which is the longest drought for him as a Lancer…
Storm Players To Watch: Forward Cooper Ernewein returns for a second season with the Storm… The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan native tallied 4 points (2+2) against Omaha last season… Ernewein already has 8 points (4+4) through 7 games played this season… Jackson Smith leads the Storm in scoring, with 12 points (3+9) through 7 games… The rookie skater has been held off the scorers' sheet just once this season in a 5-2 win against Sioux Falls back on September 25th…
This Date In Lancers History (Oct. 16): In a fight-filled night at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, the Lancers ran away with a commanding 5-0 win over the Green Bay Gamblers in 2009... Both teams amassed a whopping 193 combined penalty minutes, thanks in part to 3 separate line brawls throughout the affair... "They got physical, and I thought we had to stand up for ourselves." Said then Lancers bench boss Bliss Littler... The Lancers also held Green Bay to just 13 shots... Green Bay came into that contest averaging 43 shots through their first 4 games of the season...
This Date In Lancers History (Oct. 17): The River City Lancers handed the Waterloo Black Hawks their first loss of the 2003-04 season with a 3-2 win in 2003, thanks in part to Lancers' forward Jeff LoVecchio... "We came really hard in the first period," LoVecchio told the Daily Nonpareil... "We were working, but we got away from our checking after the first period, and we need to do that more often to be on our game." Coming into the contest, Waterloo had given up an average of 0.75 goals per game through their first 4 games of the season...
