Giancarlo Nadeau
Tonight at Minoru Arena, the North Vancouver Wolf Pack will take on the Mission City Outlaws for the first time this season! The game will be the last at the Winter Classic for North Vancouver and the last of 2023. Mission has a game remaining at Minoru Arena tomorrow against the White Rock Whalers before the curtain closes in 2023.
MISSION CITY OUTLAWS
OVERVIEW
General Manager: Scott Farrell
Head Coach: Richard Kimber
Assistant Coach: Jake Ebner
Assistant Coach: Justin Wise
Record: 16-16-1-0
Home Record: 9-7-0-0
Last Game: A 6-2 win against Aldergrove on December 23.
Goals For/Goals Against: 77 GF/88 GA (-11)
Power Play: 19/128 (14.84%)
Penalty Kill: 20/109 (81.65%)
Leading Scorers: Owen Elson (33GP – 8G – 13A – 21PTS), Cameron Nikaniuk (31GP – 5G – 13A – 18PTS), Samuel Gerbrand (33GP – 11G – 6A – 17PTS)
NOTES
- The Outlaws are 5-5-0-0 in their past ten games.
- Mission is on a two-game winning streak.
- The Outlaws (78) have the second-fewest goals in the PJHL.
- Mission leads the league with four overtime wins.
- Mission (19) has the fewest power-play goals in the league.
- The Outlaws (109) have been shorthanded the least in the PJHL.
NORTH VANCOUVER WOLF PACK
OVERVIEW
General Manager: Matt Samson
Head Coach: Mike Borrelli
Assistant Coaches: Matt Samson, Elias Godoy, Nathan Haaksma
Leadership Group: JJ Pickell (C), Ryan Hunter (A), Corson Penman (A), Matthew Carniel (A)
Record: 18-12-2-1
Road Record: 7-7-2-0
Last Game: A 5-4 loss against the Port Moody Panthers on December 28.
Goals For/Goals Against: 128 GF/120 GA (+8)
Power Play: 29/162 (17.9%)
Penalty Kill: 37/168 (77.98%)
Leading Scorers: JJ Pickell (33GP – 31G – 26A – 57PTS), Rylan Oatman (32GP – 14G – 37A – 51PTS), Matthew Carniel (32GP – 28G – 21A – 49PTS)
NOTES
- In their first winter classic game, the Wolf Pack went 1/7 on the power play against Port Moody.
- Matthew Carniel is on an 18-game point streak. In that span, he has 20 goals and 12 assists.
- JJ Pickell (33-31-26-57) has a one-point lead for first in the PJHL with points. He sits first in goals (31), three goals ahead of Matthew Carniel (28) in second place.
- Rylan Oatman (32-14-37-51) leads the PJHL in assists with 37, which is two assists ahead of Jakob Loewen, who has 35. He also leads all rookies in points.
- North Vancouver has gone 4-3-2-1 in their past ten games.
GAME NOTES
- Mission was 3-1-0-0 against North Vancouver last season.
- The Wolf Pack have a record of 7-2-1-0 against the Outlaws in the past five seasons.
- Tonight marks the first meeting of the season between these two teams.
- The season’s final meeting against these two clubs will be next Wednesday at Harry Jerome.
WHAT’S NEXT?
NV: hosts Mission at Harry Jerome next Wednesday.
MIS: plays the White Rock Whalers tomorrow at 1:00.
