Game notes vs. Cougars

Tonight’s Preview: The Kelowna Rockets face the Prince George Cougars in the 7^th meeting of the season between the two teams. The Rockets are 5-1-0-0, with their lone loss coming back on September 25^th in a 6-2 setback. These two teams met back on January 19^th with the Rockets recorded a 6-2 win. These two teams will face each other twice next weekend in Prince George. Overall the Rockets have out-scored their BC Division rivals 24-14. Tonight’s game is the start of seven straight games against teams in the BC Division. The Rockets host Vancouver tomorrow night before welcoming Chilliwack Wednesday night. Overall the Rockets have won four straight.

Rockets recent game: Zach Franko scored twice leading the Rockets to a 4-3 win over the Tri City Americans Sunday night. Jesse Astles and MacKenzie Johnston added singles in the team’s 27^th win of the season. Jordon Cooke earned the win in goal. The Rockets were 0 for 3 on the power play and didn’t allow a goal on four Americans chances. The Tri Cities out-shot the Rockets 33-15.

Who’s Hot: Zach Franko is riding a team high eleven game point streak, Franko has 7+8=15 over that period…Shane McColgan has points in 11 of his last 13 games….Mitchell Callahan has 7+10=17 in his last nineteen games…Brett Bulmer has a seven game point streak (3+8=11). Geordie Wudrick has six goals in the month of January. In November he had 11.

This and That: Zach Franko’s eleven game point streak is third longest active point streak in the WHL this season…..The Rockets are seven games above the .500 mark for the first time this season….Last season the Rockets had 19 wins after 47 games….Shane McColgan leads the Rockets in road points with 20. McColgan is followed by Brett Bulmer (19) and Zach Franko (16)….Franko has seven goals in January after scoring just once in December…..The Rockets are riding a four game winning streak heading into tonight’s game. The Rockets won six in a row to start the month of November. The six game winning streak started November 2nd against Prince George…The Rockets have allowed the third fewest goals against in the Western Conference (136). Only Spokane (109) and Tri City (133) have allowed fewer goals against….The Rockets have lost just ten times in their last 33 games. The Rockets lost ten times in their first 14 games to start the season….Tyson Barrie leads the team in multiple point games with twelve.…Jason Siebert is missing his 23^rd straight games after undergoing surgery on his wrist….Adam Brown is third all-time on the Kelowna Rockets list of games played by a goalie. Brown has played 128 games, 1 fewer than second place Kristofer Westblom. The franchise leader is Kevin Swanson with 167 games played… The Rockets are 11 for 67 on the power play in their last nine games (16.4%)…The Rockets have allowed the fewest goals against on the road in the WHL this season (63)….The Rockets have scored 33 more goals at home than on the road. The Rockets have played 24 games at home and 23 times on opposition ice…The Rockets are the only team in the WHL this season that have not lost in overtime or the shoot-out…The Rockets have been involved in sixteen one goal games this season. The Rockets are 11-5-0-0 in those sixteen one goal games…Adam Brown has started thirty-two of the last 37 games…The Rockets franchise played in its 1400^th regular season game December 14^th in Medicine Hat. The team has 724 regular season wins….The Rockets were 8 and 10 in 18 games this season without Tyson Barrie in the lineup. Barrie missed seven games at the start of the season with a hip injury and eleven games as a member of Team Canada… Brett Bulmer has four more goal than all of last season….Only four players have played in all 47 regular season games this season. They are Zach Franko, Kevin Smith, Evan Bloodoff and Spencer Main…The Rockets are 8-5-0-0 in thirteen games since returning from the Christmas break…The Rockets have scored 6 or more goals on home ice seven times this season…The Rockets have been afforded the most power play chances in the WHL this season. The Rockets have enjoyed 263 power play opportunities. Kamloops is next on that list with 258 chances….Defenceman Zak Stebner played in his 250^th career WHL game last Friday against the T-Birds…The six goals the Rockets scored on the road against the T-Birds last Friday was a season high…Ryan Huska coached in his 250^th career WHL regular season game last Friday in Seattle…Geordie Wudrick will play in his 325^th career WHL game tonight…Zach Franko is the highest scoring 17 year-old rookie in the WHL….Shane McColgan leads the team with 19 power play assists…Geordie Wudrick leads the team in power play goals with nine..Last season the Rockets won just five of 21 games against U.S Division teams. This season they have 9 wins in sixteen meetings.