CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi IceRays (28-22-6, 62 pts) dropped the series opener to the El Paso Rhinos (32-18-6) by a final score of 5-2 at the Hilliard Center on Friday night. The loss marks the seventh straight defeat to El Paso this season.<\/p>\n
The Rhinos held a 4-0 lead going into the third period. Justin Thibault put Corpus Christi on the board five minutes in, burying a rebound for his 11th goal of the season. Jack Mackenzie followed shortly after, snapping a wrist shot past Modelski on a two-on-one rush to bring the IceRays within two at 4-2.<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked our response in the third period, we showed some fight, but we have to bring that urgency from the opening puck drop if we want a different result tomorrow,\u201d said IceRays Head Coach Kevin St. Jacques.<\/p>\n
The IceRays now hang on to fourth place in the NAHL South Division by just one point as the Shreveport Mudbugs defeated the Amarillo Wranglers 5-2. The Mudbugs and IceRays are in a battle for home ice-advantage in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n
The IceRays play their final home game of the regular season on Saturday against the Rhinos at the Hilliard Center. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. The first 1,000 fans get a team poster upon entry when the doors open at 6:00 p.m. An autograph session will take place with IceRays players and staff after the game concludes.<\/p>\n
Tickets start at just $5 for the final home games. Student and Active Military Tickets are available at the Hilliard Center Box Office with valid ID. Grab yours now at www.goicerays.com [goicerays.com], on Ticketmaster, or at the Hilliard Center box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi IceRays (28-22-6, 62 pts) dropped the series opener to the El…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,155,157,156,138,44362,44363,87135,80676],"class_list":["post-224216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-el-paso","tag-icerays","tag-nahl","tag-rhinos","tag-south-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}