The No. 2 ranked Bison women's hockey team completes road regular season schedule, with only two weeks left in 2017-18 season, as they travel to play at the Lethbridge Pronghorns on February 2-3 weekend. Puck drop versus the Pronghorns will be 8 p.m. CT on Friday and 2 p.m. CT on Saturday.

The Bisons are in a tight battle for first place in the Canada West conference as the Herd sits in first place with a 16-5-2-1 record for 53 points. The Bisons have already clinched a spot into the 2018 conference playoffs – sixth consecutive season in the post-season.

Heading into the two game weekend series, Manitoba is ahead of second place Alberta by three points (three points given out for regulation win) and five points ahead of third place tie held by UBC and Saskatchewan. Lethbridge is eighth in the eight team conference with an 3-16-2-3 record for 16 points and battling to move into the Top 6 playoff spots this season.

This is the second weekend series between the two teams this conference season. Earlier in 2017-18, the Herd played at home on November 17-18, 2017 and won 1-0 in a shootout (Nov. 17) and won 2-1 (Nov. 18).

Manitoba has two players in the Canada West Top 10 scoring. For the Bisons, third year forward Jordyn Zacharias (ten goals, five assists) is tied for fifth place with 15 points. Fourth year forward Alanna Sharman (3g, 11a) is seventh with 14 points. In conference defenceman scoring, fourth year Erica Rieder (7g, 3a) is fifth while fourth year Alexandra Anderson (1g, 7a) and rookie Lauren Warkentin (1g, 7a) are tied for sixth at eight points.

In the nets, Bison first year netminder Lauren Taraschuk is T-1st in the conference with 0.78 Goals Against Average, second in CW Save Percentage at .960, T-4th with three shutouts and tied for third with nine conference wins. Fifth year goaltender Rachel Dyck is tied for third with nine conference wins and T-8th in CW shutouts with three.

Bison Notes: Manitoba has scored the second most conference goals so far this season with 53 while allowing the fourth lowest goals at 37 entering the weekend series. In CW stats, the Bisons hold the number one power play at 19.4% (20/103) and first in CW on the road with a 23.4% (11/47) power play.