Hitman talks to Joey Erickson Corpus Christi IceRays vs. Odessa Jackalopes

 After a tough road trip to the North American Hockey League (NAHL) Showcase in Minnesota, the Corpus Christi IceRays return to Hilliard Center for a two-game series against the Odessa Jackalopes on Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. both nights.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Corpus Christy's Classic Kids Big ninety three to nine. What's

(00:02):
going on? It is hit Man with you? And I
got Joey from the Ice Rays here. Hey dude, Hey,
how are you sir?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's good to be back on a big weekend A
head for the ice Raiser.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, okay, jackalopes, yeah, the jacks. Okay, tell me. First off,
I remember jacalopes from some old ABC television show. But
if people don't know what a jackalope is, what is
a jackalope?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I would assume it's a jack rabbit of some kind.
If I'm not mistaken. I think that is their mascot
to some degree. I know in their logo it looks
like a rabbit, like a jack rabbit. And I don't
know what the elope part is for.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, see, this is what I remember from the TV
show back in the Okay, jackalopes were rabbits, but they
had deer antlers.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, that's where I think the elope part would come.
That's probably where the antelope, Yeah, anvelope part. So it's
like jackalopes, that's what they call it. But I remembered
from an old TV show from back in the day.
But I guess Odess's got Jackalobes. Okay, yeah, you never
know what's going out there West Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Jeez. All right, yeah, just stay away from the old fields.
I'll just stay away from there. Hey, dude, tell us
that we got big games coming up on Friday and Saturday.
What's what's the details concerning this game? Yeah, seven oh.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Five puck drop on both nights Friday and Saturday. You
can get your tickets at Ticketmaster or you can go
to www dot go ice raise dot com to purchase
your tickets. You can get five dollars student tickets as
well at the box office at the Hilliard Center. All
you gotta do is show a valid I D plus
active military as well, so you can get in cheap

(01:36):
and just enjoy some hockey this week. And nothing too
fancy going on, not like our home opening weekend celebration,
but should be some good hockey. The boys are going
to be hungry. They just got back from Minnesota. It
was a bit of a rough trip. I was going
to tell you what games I was gonna ask you
about that. Yeah, Minnesota. That was that was That was Yeah,
that was crazy up there.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
From what I've heard from all the reports that Dad
those were, but they were still really good games. And
now you're back here with Odessa. Tell me a little bit.
Is there any type of feud with Odessa or even
not really?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
But this Odessa team is really volatile, is how I
would kind of categorize them. They can win six nothing
and then they can lose six nothing. They just seem
to be really up and down. Last year we had
some incredible games. I believe it was a seven to
four finish, there was a five four to seven six.
So a lot of times you get high scoring games
between these two teams. So I'm looking forward to it.

(02:31):
And they're bringing back quite a few returners from last year.
Some of them had a lot of success against the
ice Ras, so really we're hoping that we can shut
them down this weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
But yeah, they're volatile.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
There'll probably a lot of offense, which is fun, a
lot of goals and a lot of hard hits.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So this is actually their first game with Odessa, right, correct, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
This is the first series. They'll play them a total
of eight times this season. Last year, the Ice Rays
won six of the eight, so they had the advantage
over Odessa last.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
All right, so make sure you make it on out.
It's happening Friday and Saturday over at the Hilliard Center
formerly known as the normally known as the American Bank Center,
but now we say it's a Hilliard Center. Yes, so
make sure you make it on out for the corpus
Christy Ice Rays. Yeah, they can get tickets there at
the box office. Is there anywhere else they can get.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Tickets Ticketmaster, go ice raise dot com or the other
two options. You can also call us at three six
one eight one four puck. You can talk to Lorenzo Amanda,
our wonderful front office staff and they can get you
hooked up with half season tickets or season tickets, group purchasers,
anything like that as well. In case you want to
bring out a group, you can call us there and

(03:36):
we can get you hooked up as well, not just
single game tickets.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And they can also find out more details on how
you can get the gear to where.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, shop ice rays dot com yet is where you
need to go, go pile up the merch.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
That way, you're ready to go this weekend, all right, Joey,
thanks a lot for coming in looking forward to Friday
and Saturday's game. Of course, what's the website if anybody
want you finds out about anything about the Ice Rays,
Go ice rays dot com. All right down the way.
We got more classic gets coming up on Big ninety
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