Weekend Preview - Ontario and Idaho

The Grizzlies finish up their home stand this weekend with games against the Ontario Reign on Friday, and the Idaho Steelheads on Saturday.



Idaho again? Ish...



The Ontario Reign are the only team in the ECHL that have three mascots:

Blaze

Dark Knight



Some Joker in a costume

(Pictures from the Ontario Reign website.)

They also came back from being down 5-0 to the Grizz on Wednesday to tie the game and even push to overtime. You'd think the team would be tired of Coach Colley's butt-chewings by now.



For the Grizzlies, it looks like Shea Guthrie should be back from IR, while Mark Pavli is on 3-day reserve as of Wednesday. The Grizzlies need to get back to what they were doing earlier in the season - working hard and not giving up. We don't know what this lazy-butt garbage is lately, but we're not fans of it. We seriously doubt it's Colley's new system.



Maybe after the butt-chewings, everyone's butts are just too dang tired to play.



Whatever - they're all under the age of 30.



The Steelheads played Alaska on Thursday, and again tonight, and then head down to Utah for a Saturday match-up with the Grizzlies. Their leading scorer - Tyler Spurgeon - has been loaned to Wilkes-Barre Scranton, so he'll be out of the mix. This is a random one-game stint for the ECHL, where most teams play each other two or three times in a row. The ISH and Grizz will have another one of those next Wednesday in Idaho in between playing Bakersfield 4 times.



Kind of like a potato sandwich.

Game tonight starts at 7:05 pm at the E Center. If you can't make it down to support the team, you can cheer in your car - Adrian Denny will be doing the broadcast on 1230 am. Nobody thinks cheering in your car is weird... unless you're using pom-poms.