KINGSTON, Ontario (Interstat) — The Peterborough Petes will visit the Kingston Frontenacs in a minor league hockey game on Friday at Slush Puppie Place. Peterborough will be the visiting team, and Kingston will be the home team. Kingston is 9-5 this season, while Peterborough is 6-8. The Frontenacs have won both meetings between the teams this season, including a 5-3 decision in Kingston in the most recent matchup and a 6-3 victory in Peterborough earlier in the season. Both head-to-head games this season were decided in regulation. The Frontenacs won both games by two or more goals.

Peterborough most recently lost 5-0 at Oshawa. Adam Levac had one shot and two penalty minutes in that game, Adam Novotny had five shots and two penalty minutes, and Calum Hartnell had two shots. Before that, Peterborough beat Oshawa 5-4 in overtime, blanked Barrie 6-0 and beat North Bay 4-2. The Petes also have a 3-1 loss at North Bay, a 2-1 overtime win at Sault Ste. Marie, a 7-3 loss at Sudbury, a 4-0 win against Erie and a 6-3 loss to Ottawa. Peterborough has played Oshawa twice in its recent stretch and North Bay twice in its recent stretch. Levac is a player to watch. In the overtime win against Oshawa, he had one goal, one assist, two shots and two penalty minutes. In the loss at Sudbury, he had one goal, one assist, seven shots and five penalty minutes.

Kingston enters after a 6-1 win at Ottawa. Nolan Buttar scored twice on three shots in that game. Landon Wright had one goal, one assist and three shots, and Cole Zurawski had one goal, one assist and five shots. Buttar is the Frontenacs player to watch. He had two shots and seven penalty minutes against Ottawa in the previous meeting, one assist and one shot in a loss at Brampton and one assist and one shot in a win at Brampton. He also had two assists at Barrie and two shots against Erie. Kingston’s recent results include a 4-2 win against Ottawa, a 5-2 loss at Brampton, a 5-4 overtime win against Oshawa, wins at Brantford and Brampton, a 7-4 win at Barrie and an 8-6 loss to Erie. Kingston also lost at Kitchener and at Brantford earlier this season. The Frontenacs have played Ottawa twice in their recent stretch and Brampton twice in their recent stretch.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Kingston 5, Peterborough 2. Interstat’s ELO system gives Kingston a 59.5 percent probability to win. The over/under for the game is 6.5.