Game Day No. 40

The Bucks are set to face the Corpus Christi IceRays for the 11th time this season in a little over an hour at the LEC.

The Bucks(19-13-7, 45 points) are 3-1 in their last four games, all against tough opponents, but are 3-6-1 against the IceRays (16-18-6, 38 points) this season, including three straight losses and two straight shutouts.

It's easy to assume that the IceRays' loss of Kevin Nastiuk will help the Bucks greatly tonight, but Kris Tebbs knows them pretty well from his time with the IceRays last season and his week with the Bucks this season, so we'll see how that works out.

The IceRays' new backup was Francois Lemoy, but now Greg Rajan is reporting they have traded for former Buck Kevin Beech, so he will likely be taking over that role. He will not be in Laredo tonight, though, so it's pretty safe to guess the Bucks will face Tebbs.

Kevin Desfosses is expected to make his third straight start for the Bucks.

The Bucks' 3-1 win last night will only keep them in that tie for third place, or get them higher, if they continue to win, and you can bet Coach Ruskowski has gotten that point across.

You can read more about the victory in my story and Bryan Benway's press release and more about tonight in his preview and the Pointstreak pre-game notes.

I'll be live blogging tonight, and you can also follow the game on Pointstreak, watch on CHL-TV or listen on Imagen 94.1 FM.

The team sold two tickets for the price of one for tonight to everyone at last night's game, so we'll see if that helps boost attendance at all.