The Mountain View Colts and the Red Deer Vipers are deadlocked at one-game each in their Heritage Junior Hockey League playoff series.
Their best-of-five Northern Division semifinal will resume with Game 3 tonight at Servus Arena in Red Deer.
The Colts dropped the series opener 5-zip last Saturday on the road.
Mountain View then responded by blanking the Vipers 2-0 on Monday night in Three Hills.
20-year-old goalie Nicholas Smith from Calgary earned the first post-season win of his HJHL career by kicking out 27 shots. He made 20 saves on 24 shots in Game 1 – the Vipers had an empty net goal in their win.
18-year-old rookie blueliner Trey Mueller from Olds and 20-year-old defenceman Zachary Wheatley from Surrey, B.C. scored their goals in the third period to propel Mountain View to the Game 2 victory.
Vipers 20-year-old netminder Meyer Guame stopped all 48 shots by the Colts in Game 1 and 34 of 36 in Game 2.
96.5 The Ranch will have live play-by-play coverage when the series shifts back to Three Hills for Game 4 on Saturday night at 7:30.
If necessary, a fifth and deciding game between the Colts and the Vipers would be played in Red Deer on Sunday at 7pm.
