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For the second consecutive season, an early-season showdown between the Erie Otters and Niagara IceDogs will carry added significance.<\/p>\n
The Ontario Hockey League announced its second annual Rivalry Week schedule, once again pairing the Otters with their geographic rivals from Niagara in a home-and-home series.<\/p>\n
The rivalry series is scheduled to take place from October 22-24 and will feature back-to-back contests between the familiar foes. The action begins on Thursday, October 22, when Erie travels across the border to face the IceDogs at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n
Following an off day on Friday, the teams will conclude the weekend set on Saturday, October 24, when the IceDogs visit Erie Insurance Arena for a Saturday night matchup.<\/p>\n
The rivalry produced plenty of excitement last season, with three of the six meetings requiring overtime. Erie posted a 2-1-2-1 record against Niagara during the season series, highlighting just how closely matched the clubs were.<\/p>\n
The teams also squared off during the inaugural Rivalry Week in 2024, splitting the two-game set. The Otters earned a victory on home ice on October 17 before the IceDogs answered with an overtime win the following night in Niagara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second consecutive season, an early-season showdown between the Erie Otters and Niagara IceDogs will carry added…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,17019,94479,58493,11170,94478],"class_list":["post-215789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-otters","tag-home-and-home-series","tag-niagara-icedogs","tag-ohl","tag-rivalry-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}