Where special teams supremacy led the Kootenay Ice to victory in Game 2, it was all Warriors all night Tuesday, as Moose Jaw regained the lead in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal with a 4-0 win on Tuesday.

Game 3 went the host team's way largely on the strength of a 2-for-5 power play, and a 28-save shutout from Thomas Heemskerk.

"We took some penalties and we got into a bit of trouble in our defensive zone, but that's easily fixable," said rookie forward Erik Benoit. "We've just got to put our heads to it and we'll get back on the right track."

Game 4 of the series goes tonight in Moose Jaw. Head coach Kris Knoblauch wants to see fewer odd-man rushes heading Kootenay's way, even though the Ice defence did a fine job of getting sticks in passing lanes.

He also thought their kill was more unlucky than bad on Tuesday.

"They got some quality shots, but for the most part our penalty kill was good. It was just a couple of bounces and missed plays," said Knoblauch.

Moose Jaw scored its first powerplay goal of the series 12:15 in. A backcheck popped the puck forward to Sebastien Svendsen, and his cross-slot pass found Spencer Edwards. He netted his second of the post season before Nathan Lieuwen could slide across.

Lieuwen finished with 18 stops on 22 shots.

"The first two games, Kootenay really did a good job completely shutting down all we had on our power play," said Edwards. "They really kept us to the outside and did a good job of making us shoot from the perimeter. We wanted to make a couple of adjustments. (Tuesday) it obviously paid off a little bit and we got a couple of nice breaks."

The period didn't lack for big hits, but the costliest came just inside the Ice zone when Moose Jaw's Joel Edmundson crunched Drew Czerwonka at 16:21. The big Ice forward went down in a heap and left in obvious pain.

His status for tonight's game is unclear.

The Warriors extended their lead 31 seconds before the end of the period, when Joey Kornelsen took advantage of a turnover in the Ice zone and wired a shot through a screened Lieuwen.

Moose Jaw used the power play to extend its lead in the middle frame, and killed off consecutive Kootenay chances to maintain it.

Antonin Honejsek wired the puck in from the right dot at 10:37 to make Moose Jaw's advantage 2-for-2.

"Obviously when your power play isn't going, it's frustrating but as soon as you can bang in a couple - even if they're not the greatest goals in the world - it raises the confidence of your power play," said Edwards.

The Ice weren't able to capitalize on three consecutive advantages in the latter half of the period, including a stretch of 1:23 while up two skaters. Joe Antilla had a breakaway late in the last advantage, but couldn't get a shot for the efforts of a backchecking Warrior.

"For the most part, I think we're holding the puck too long," said Knoblauch, of a power play that was 0-for-5. "We're successful when we move the puck and shift them around. (On Tuesday) I don't think we did that as much."

In the third period, Kootenay mustered just two shots.

"That's just us getting frustrated and taking undisciplined penalties," said Knoblauch, who was visibly upset at Elgin Pearce for slashing an opponent as he came off the ice on a change. "If you want to come from behind, you need to generate more."

Dylan Hood closed out scoring with one minute left in the game.

If Czerwonka winds up joining fellow winger Jesse Ismond on the injury reserve, Knoblauch said some players who had been fourth-liners will have to elevate their game.

The coach liked Brendan Hurley's play Tuesday, as he crashed and banged to create turnovers and a couple of scoring chances.

Erik Benoit also stood out to Knoblauch.

"He had some excellent opportunities, caught their goalie in the shoulder a couple of times," he said. "We need some more performances out of a guy like Montgomery and Pearce."

Benoit said he was looking forward to filling a bigger role if needed.

"It's been a tough series so far and it's just going to get tougher as the games go on," said Benoit. "We just need everyone to contribute and do their jobs out there."

He said there is a pretty straightforward way to get pucks behind Heemskerk tonight.

"We've just got to get lots of pucks on Heemskerk. He gets big rebounds out there, and we've just got to crash that net," said Benoit. "We've got to get to him early and keep getting pucks at him."

SHIFT DISTURBER

Seeing his first action since the expiration of a four-game suspension, Brett Lyon quickly found a way under Kootenay players' skin. He and Jagger Dirk fought off a faceoff 1:40 in, with the Kootenay defenceman taking the worst of it.

Shortly after his return, Lyon got into a fencing match at centre ice with Matt Fraser and both were sent off. That was a trade Moose Jaw would gladly take, with eight career goals in their box to 87 in Kootenay's.