KEARNEY, Neb. – The Tri-City Storm host the Lincoln Stars on Friday night at Viaero Center. Puckdrop is set for 7:05 pm CT. 

Kid's tickets are $5.00 with the purchase of an adult ticket on Friday courtesy of the FunZone Arcade inside of Pizza Ranch Kearney. 

In addition, the Storm are offering Nebraska Lottery Rivalry Packs for tonight's game. Get four tickets, four hot dogs and four cans of soda for $44. Each pack also includes 10 Nebraska Lottery scratch-off tickets. Limited quantities are available.

To purchase tickets, visit stormhockey.com, call the Storm at 308-338-8144, or stop by the Viaero Center box office in-person.

Fans can watch the contest on FloHockey and listen on Storm Radio. 

Tri-City (14-17-4, 32 pts, 5th place Western Conf.) 

Previously:

• Defeated Lincoln 5-3 at Ice Box on Thursday

• Mason Jenson, Cam Springer, Connor Brown, Paul Bloomer, Carson Pilgrim tallied Storm goals

• Bloomer's eventual game-winner broke a 3-3 tie 7:33 into the third period, was his first game-winning goal of season

• Michal Pradel stopped 38 of 41 Lincoln shots; 38 saves were his second-most in a game this season

Team Notes:

• Won six of past eight games

• Thursday: scored five goals in one game for first time since September 26 (6-2 home win vs. Omaha)

• 35 games played this season leads all USHL teams

• Tonight: first home game since December 13; fifth home game since November 21

• Have played 13 home games this season, 21 away from Viaero Center

• Penalty kill (84.6%) ranks first in USHL

• Averaging 11.80 penalty minutes per game, third-least among USHL teams

• Five of next eight contests will take place at Viaero Center

Player Notes: 

• Brecken Smith: has recorded nine points over his past eight appearances 

• Connor Brown: has scored in back-to-back games for first time this year

• Paul Bloomer: notched fourth multi-point (1-1-2) game of season Thursday

• Michal Pradel: three shutouts tie for first among USHL goaltenders, 567 saves rank second, 1330 minutes are third, .917 save percentage is fourth, 2.48 goals against average is seventh

• Bode Laylin: collected team-leading 14th assist on Bloomer's game-winning tally Thursday; all four goals this season have come on power play, a mark that ties for second among USHL defenseman; 18 points tie for seventh among USHL defenseman

• Oliver Ozogany: 64 shots this season place fourth among USHL rookies

• Maddox Malmquist: ties for second among USHL rookies in game-winning goals (2)

• Carson Pilgrim (9-10-19) leads team in scoring, Bode Laylin (4-14-18) follows

Lincoln (17-14-1, 35 pts, 3rd place Western Conf.) 

• Lost five of past seven games

• Thursday: Brady Cunningham, Drew DellaSalla, Nik Young produced goals

• Thursday: Netminder Will Prowse stopped 35 of 39 Tri-City shots

• Alex Pelletier (28-16-44) leads the Stars and all USHL players in points, Layne Loomer (12-29-41) follows placing third in the league in points; neither generated a point on Thursday