The Dauphin Kings offence has been red hot lately and they will look to keep that going this evening. The club kicks off an extremely busy week on home ice against the Virden Oil Capitals. The game marks the return of Bradyn Smelski. He's played 13 games with the Oil Capitals and he has one goal.
The Kings have won three straight games coming into tonight and they have scored 20 goals in the process. The club has been just as good in the defensive end as they have only surrendered six goals.
Virden, meanwhile, has been giving up a pile of goals lately. In their last four games alone, the club has given up 20 goals. That includes giving up seven on Sunday night in a wild 8-7 win against the Winkler Flyers.
Virden is currently in a tie for sixth in the league, six points ahead of Dauphin who is now in eighth after starting the season 1-5-0-1. The Oil Capitals have given up the most goals in the league coming into tonight. On average, they give up four goals per night. They, however, have still managed to score 3.6 goals per game.
The Kings now have 50 goals which are sixth in the MJHL and they have given up 45 which are the fifth-fewest in the league.
Dauphin is six points back of Virden, but they do have four games in hand. The team's power play is also now third in the league at 21.3%. Virden is fourth-best on the power play at 19.7%. When it comes to taking penalties, Virden takes a ton. They have the second-most penalty minutes in the league with 336. Their penalty kill is near the bottom of the league at 78.1% which is ninth.
Dauphin's penalty kill is fifth in the league at 81%.
After tonight, the Kings head back on the road. They're in Swan Valley tomorrow, Steinbach Friday, and they wrap up their busy week in OCN on Sunday. Darnell Duff has the pregame show of all three games at 7:15.
