Ice Demons regain league lead with 6-4 home win over Prince Rupert Ramage

The Kitimat Ice Demons regained the overall league lead in the CIHL Saturday, by virtue of a 5-4 win over the surging Prince Rupert Rampage, which featured four straight goals from former CIHL scoring leader, Blaine Markwart. The win, the third in a row for the Ice Demons after dropping a Saturday shootout loss and a Sunday game in Williams Lake earlier in October, showed the team is again starting to round out into the "team to beat" in the CIHL. The two teams will meet again on Prince Rupert Ice this weekend. In other games this weekend, the Terrace River Kings evaded sinking lower in the West Division standings by winning 5-4 in another classic confrontation with the Hazelton Wolverines. In the East Division a long-awaited tilt between the Burns Lake Braves and the Houston Luckies turned into another rough night for both teams, with the Luckies emerging victorious, 2-1, after being heavily out-shot in the third period. Luckies' Derek Dinelle scored 35 seconds into the game, and that held up through the first period. Houston added a second goal in the second, from R. Szydlik that turned out to be the only goal of that period. Burns Lake stormed the Houston net, but only managed a single unassisted goal in period three, from Gudjonson, as the Luckies held on for the win. This weekend the Smithers Steelheads, who were idle this past weekend, will try to regain ground on the Ice Demons, while visiting Terrace for a single game, while the Hazelton Wolverines will be on the road, visiting Omineca Ice for a pair of games, Saturday and Sunday. Omenica is in last place in the East Division, but has played only four games and is still looking for its first win of the season. Meanwhile, Ian Coleman rejoined Colt Stava (Rampage) and Darryl Young (Steelheads) at the top of the individual scoring lists - each with 14 points, followed, a point behind by Rampage's Rob Miller, Hazelton's Stu Barnes and Curtis Cardinal and Kitimat's Geoff Morgan, all bunched at 13 points.