No. 10 Bison men’s hockey team remain in third place and host Lethbridge on Feb. 2-3 at Wayne Fleming Arena

Bisons play on Friday at 7 p.m. CT and second game on Saturday at 1 p.m. with Manitoba in third place with 14-8-2 record with two weeks left in 2017-18 regular season

The No. 10 Bison men's hockey team play a crucial home weekend series, as they are in a battle for third place in the Canada West conference, by hosting the Lethbridge Pronghorns on February 2-3 weekend at the Wayne Fleming Arena (U of M Fort Garry campus). Puck drop versus the Cougars will be 7 p.m. CT on Friday and 1 p.m. CT on Saturday. Tickets available at the Wayne Fleming Arena door.

The Bisons seek to win their fourth home weekend series of 2017-18 and have gone 9-3-0 record so far at Wayne Fleming Arena heading into the weekend series. This is the last home weekend series during this regular season. The Bisons have already clinched a spot into the 2018 conference playoffs – 11th consecutive season in the post-season.

Heading into the two game weekend series, Manitoba sits in third spot in the Canada West standings entering the weekend with a 14-8-2 record for 30 points and one point ahead of fourth place UBC and six points clear of fifth place Mount Royal. The Top 4 will host a playoff round. Lethbridge has a 8-13-3 record and in a tied for sixth place at 19 points in the eight team conference.

This is the second weekend series between the two teams this conference season. Earlier in 2017-18, the Herd played on the road versus Lethbridge on November 17-18, 2017 and lost 4-3 in 1st overtime (Nov. 17) and lost 4-3 in 1st overtime (Nov. 18).

Manitoba has three players in the Canada West Top 20 scoring. Third year forward (first year with Bisons) Michael St. Croix (nine goals, 18 assists) has 29 points in 24 games and in fourth place. Third year defenceman and alternate captain Adam Henry (5g, 17a) is T-12th and second for defenceman scoring with 22 points and third year forward (first year with Bisons) Zach Franco (5g, 15a) is T-17th spot with 20 points.

In the nets, Bison fourth year netminder Byron Spriggs has played in 22 conference regular season games and is eighth in the CW with 3.01 GAA and T-6th in Save Pct. with .911 while second with 12 conference wins and first in CW minutes played at 1274:52.

Bison Notes: Graduating players will be recognized prior to Saturday's game. The four Bison men's hockey players are forwards Justin Augert, Warren Callis and Joel Schreyer plus defenceman Channing Bresciani.

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