Kings plan for Generals

Times Editor    

 

Despite losing their final two regular season games, including a 6-3 defeat to their upcoming first-round opponent, the Wheatland Kings are excited to start the post-season.

The local Junior-B team lost a pair of meaningless games to the Cochrane Generals on Feb. 15, before falling 3-2 in overtime to the third-ranked Medicine Hat Cubs the following day.

The Kings, who clinched the fourth seed in the South Division earlier this month, couldn’t move up or down in the standings entering this past weekend.

Now the focus of the team switches gears, as the Kings face the Generals in the South Survivor Series, which started Feb. 20 at the Strathmore Family Centre (result of Game 1 was not available as of press time).

According to Kings head coach Doug Murphy, the Generals had various issues to start the season before getting their act together in the second half. Even well before the playoffs started, he knew Cochrane would be a team to contend with. 

Now his team will have their hands full trying to beat them in the best-of-three series.

Game 2 is in Cochrane on Feb. 22 and Game 3, if necessary, is slated for Feb. 23 (8 p.m.) at the Strathmore Family Centre. 

The winner will face the top-ranked Okotoks Bisons in a best-of-seven series beginning on Feb. 24, while Coaldale and Medicine Hat will face off in the other South playoff series.