Guelph Storm (33-21-2-2) at No. 6 Erie Otters (39-13-2-2)
When: Today, 7 p.m.
Where: Erie Insurance Arena
On the air: WFNN-AM/1330, www.ottershockey.com (live stream)
Up next: at Owen Sound (Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m.)
What to watch: The Otters and Midwest Division rival Storm conclude the 6-game, regular-season series with their 3rd meeting in the past week. … The Otters can even the series at 3 games apiece. The Storm have won the last 2 meetings – 6-3 at Erie Insurance Arena on Feb. 11 and 4-3 in Guelph last Friday. … The Otters (82 points) also can extend their large leads over London (73) and Guelph (70) in the chase for the division title and at least the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference. First-place Sault Ste. Marie (92) has a 10-point lead over the Otters. … D Troy Donnay (4 goals, 19 assists, 23 points, plus-25) and RW Nick Baptiste (23-23-46) missed practice time this week because they were ill. … C Connor McDavid (32-60-92 points) has points in 21 straight games, a franchise record and the OHL’s longest active streak. He tied a career high with 5 points in an 8-2 win against 
Peterborough on Saturday… Rookie LW Alex DeBrincat (39-38-77), pictured at left, broke out of a mini-slump (2 goals and 3 points in 7 games) with 2 goals and an assist against Peterborough. … The Storm continue to play well without C Robby Fabbri (18-20-38 in 22 games), who hasn’t played since suffering a high ankle sprain while playing for Canada at the IIHF World Junior Championship. … LW Tyler Bertuzzi (41-46-87) leads the team in goals, assists, points, plus-minus (+24), penalty minutes (83) and power-play goals (12). He has 28 more points than his closest teammate, C Jason Dickinson (22-37-59). … Former Otters RW Chris Marchese (13-23-36) has 5 goals and 22 points in 20 games since joining the Storm in a trade from Windsor. He has points in 7 straight games, including 2 assists in last Friday’s win vs. the Otters. … Former Otters F Luke Cairns (13-16-29) hasn’t played in more than a month because of a reported case of mononucleosis. … The Storm are nearly even in goals scored (199) and goals against (200).
– Victor Fernandes
