CRANBROOK, B.C. — With the post-season derby just around the corner, the Red Deer Rebels aren’t firing on all cylinders.

The Rebels suffered their second successive Western Hockey League defeat — and fourth loss in their last five games — Wednesday, falling 5-1 to the Kootenay Ice before 2,727 fans at the Cranbrook Recreation Complex. The setback, just one night after a 5-2 loss to at Lethbridge, kept the Rebels in sixth place in the Eastern Conference with just an outside chance of catching Kootenay or the Medicine Hat Tigers for fourth or fifth spot.

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