OMAHA @ SIOUX FALLS  Friday, Nov. 6, 7:05 p.m. CST  Liberty First Credit Union Arena
OMAHA @ TRI-CITY  Saturday, Nov. 7, 6:05 p.m. CST  Vee Arena

LAST WEEKEND: The Lancers split a pair of road games, first defeating Tri-City, 8-5, before falling at Sioux City, 6-3... Omaha trailed 2-0 late in the first period last Friday before scoring the next six goals, including four in the second period... The Lancers led 3-2 after the second period Saturday but lost for the second time in seven games when up after 40 minutes...

THE STAMPEDE (10-8-1-0): Have played more games than any other USHL team (19)... Are third in the Western Conference... Play the Lancers on a Friday after hosting a Tuesday night game for the second time this season... Defeated Fargo, 5-1, Tuesday at home after losing to the Force by the same score last Saturday... Lost in overtime at Sioux City, 4-3, last Friday... Have scored three or more goals in four of their last six games since being shut out by the Lancers Oct. 23... Had not lost in regulation to Omaha since Mar. 15, 2024 and went 12-0-4-0 vs. the Lancers in between...

STAMPEDE TO WATCH: Cooper Soller recorded a goal and an assist in Tuesday's win and is fifth in the USHL with 10 goals... He recorded 9 points (6+3) in 8 games against the Lancers last season... Wade Weil has not played in the last two games after being suspended for last Saturday but leads the USHL with 97 penalty minutes and is tied for the most major penalties with five... He has 42 penalty minutes over his last two games played...

THE STORM (10-4-0-0): Saw their five-game winning streak end last Friday at home vs. Omaha in their only game of the weekend... Had not lost since Oct. 10, an 8-5 defeat to the U.S. NTDP Under-17 team... Had not allowed four goals by the Lancers since Mar. 8, 2025; 14 games in between...Had not allowed eight goals against Omaha since Dec. 27, 2013, in an 8-3 Lancers victory at Liberty First Credit Union Arena... Are fourth in the Western Conference... Are three games into a stretch of eight consecutive games played at home... Will not be on the road again until Nov. 25 at Fargo... Host Lincoln Friday...

STORM PLAYERS TO WATCH: Forward Aleksandr Sokolov has scored in each of the last two games against the Lancers... If he extends his goal-scoring streak to three games on Friday, it will be his second-longest this season after opening the campaign with goals in four straight games... Sokolov is tied for the third-most goals in the USHL... Goaltender Quinn Beumer was pulled from a start for the first time in his USHL career in his 11th start last Friday... He went into the weekend leading the USHL in goals-against average and save percentage before allowing 4 goals on 13 shots in 25:50 of action...

OFFENSIVE OUTBURSTS: The Lancers have scored 26 goals over their last six games after scoring 19 in their first eight contests... Omaha has scored six or more goals in three of the last six games... The Lancers have scored at least three goals in each of their last four games and 20 times in that span... Omaha scored three or more goals twice over their first eight games and went six straight games without lighting the lamp three-or-more times from Sept. 25 through Oct. 17...

ISRAILOV IMPACT: The Lancers are 5-3-1-0 since ADAM ISRAILOV made his season debut and scored the game-winning goal against Cedar Rapids on Oct. 10... The 'C' rated prospect by NHL Central Scouting on its Preliminary Players To Watch List last month has recorded a point in eight-of-nine games and has 7 points (3+4) over his last four games... His fellow countryman, ARTEM PRIMA (Utah Mammoth), has also thrived since Israilov's return, recording at least one point in two of the last eight games with four multi-point efforts in that span... The line of Israilov-YEGOR KIM-Prima has combined to produce 21 points (6+15) over the last four games...

KIM'S BIG NIGHT: YEGOR KIM recorded the first 4-assist game by a Lancer last Friday at Tri-City since Reese Laubach on Dec. 31, 2022 at Sioux City... That night was also the last time that a Lancer recorded 5 points in a game as Laubach also recorded a goal and Charlie Lurie scored 4 goals and added an assist...

QUICK STRIKE GOALS: Last Friday, ZACH SPAGNUOLO (Air Force) and CHARLIE VIG (Bemidji State) scored 16 seconds apart to help the Lancers erase a two-goal deficit late in the first period at Tri-City... The Lancers' record for two quickest goals was Feb. 15, 2016, in Fargo when Johan Steen and Jake Massie scored six seconds apart...

AWAY FROM HOME: The Lancers will play three or fewer home games in a month for a third straight time in November... Five of eight games this month will be away from Liberty First Credit Union Arena... Omaha is 4-3-0-0 away from Liberty First Credit Union Arena... The Lancers play six of nine games at home in December...

THIS DATE IN LANCERS HISTORY (NOV. 13, 1992): The Lancers defeated the Waterloo Black Hawks, 8-1, at Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum... Chad Abram and Neil Donovan scored just 21 seconds apart to make it 2-0 Omaha in the first period... In the second period, four Waterloo players were ejected (two from each team)... For the Lancers, it was Neil Donovan and Josh Wiegand, followed by a third-period ejection for Jeff Borders... However, the Lancers extended their lead in the middle frame with goals from Eddie Campbell and Mike Peluso...

THIS DATE IN LANCERS HISTORY (NOV. 14, 2008): The Lancers dominated the Chicago Steel with a 6-2 victory at the Mid-America Center thanks to a pair of goals from Jake Hauswirth and a pair of assists each from Seth Ambroz and Matt White... The Lancers jumped out on the Steel in the first period with three goals en route to a commanding win... The Lancers had just 28 shots on goal, finishing with just over a 21% shooting percentage... On the flip side, Lancers netminder Jeff Teglia made 25 saves on 27 shots faced...