In the first round, the Whalers defeated the top-ranked North Vancouver Wolf Pack in six games; the Ice Hawks scraped by their long-time foes, the Richmond Sockeyes, in a seven-game classic.
It all comes down to this for the play-off bound Whalers: a quarter-finals match-up against the league’s elite, the North Vancouver Wolf Pack.
The Winter Classic is a regular season tournament held in Minoru Arena after Christmas. During a four-day span, Dec. 30 to Jan. 2, each team will play two games.
For White Rock, a franchise record seven consecutive wins have shot the Pod up the standings into third in the Tom Shaw conference and fifth in the league overall. It will be a pair of home games against North Vancouver this weekend…
