It's a big week for the Minot High boys Hockey team as they try to get back in the west region race. The Magicians host Bottineau tonight and Bismarck Century on Friday.

Both teams are ahead of the Magicians in the standings who could move from last place in the points standings to fourth with a couple of wins.

(Chad Burckhard, MHS boys hockey coach) It's gonna be kind of hard to tell until we get into it. I haven't seen them play at all so but I would expect them to be pretty physical with us they normally are year after year so we're just gonna have to make sure that we outwork them. That's been a bit of a problem a few weeks ago when we were playing some games is that we were getting outworked by our opponents so that's something we worked on which was our competition level and I think Bottineau's gonna come and try to do much the same to us.

Alex Bahl, senior:Everybody should be healed up, healed up from the last couple of games. We're just gonna go out there and play all three periods and we just gotta make sure we go hard from right out of the gate and just keep that intensity up.

Game time tonight is at 7:30 p.m. at the All Seasons Arena. watch the video | save this article / add to your favorites list