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Tonight’s Preview: This could
be a possible playoff preview tonight between the Kelowna Rockets and the Tri
City Americans. If the playoffs were to begin tonight these two teams would
meet in round one. This is only the second of four meetings between these two
teams this season. The Rockets and Americans will see each other three times in
the next 18 days including twice in a week. The Rockets are in Kennewick,
Washington next Wednesday. In the lone meeting of the season on November 22nd,
in Tri City, the Rockets were a 4-1 winner. Madison Bowey scored twice while
Jordon Cooke made 18 saves. Following tonight’s game the Rockets are in Prince
George for back-to-back games this weekend. The Rockets then return to Prospera
Place to host the Cougars on Tuesday. The Rockets will play their final 14
games in 24 nights.
Jordon Cook’n it up: Veteran
goaltender Jordon Cooke moved into sole possession of second place on the
Kelowna Rockets all-time wins list among goaltenders in a 2-1 victory last
Wednesday night in Spokane. Cooke earned his 84th career win, moving
past Kelly Guard for second-all time in wins. Guard has 83 victories while
Cooke now has 85 wins on his belt. The franchise leader is Adam Brown, who
amassed 107 wins over his four year career.
Racing for a Record: The
Kelowna Rockets are trying to reach a franchise record for the most wins in a
season. The current mark is held by last year’s team which won 52 times. This
year’s club has 46 victories. Here are the top records:
2012-2013:
52 wins
2002-2003:
51 wins
2008-2009:
47 wins
2003-2004:
47 wins
2013-2014: 46 wins
2005-2006:
46 wins
2004-2005:
45 wins
Who’s Hot: Damon
Severson has points in eight of his last nine games and is riding a seven game
point streak. Severson has 11 assists over that period and is a + 7…The power
play is 11 for 42 (27.5%) in its last nine games…Rourke Chartier has 7+9=16 in his last 17 games…Myles Bell has 17 goals
in his last 20 games..The Rockets are 42-5-0-4 in their last 51 home games
dating back to last season.
This and That: Myles
Bell is trying to become the first player since Geordie Wudrick to score 40 or
more goals in a season. Wudrick had 43 in 2010-2011….The Rockets have three
more wins on the road than the 21 they had all of last season…Of Myles Bell’s
38 goals this season, 21 have been scored on the road with 17 coming on home
ice…The Rockets are 6-4-0-0 in their last ten road games…The Rockets are
4-1-0-2 in their last seven home games…The Rockets are 13-3-0-2 since the WHL
trade deadline.…The Rockets have been involved in 10-one goal games on home ice
this season…Cole Martin is +98 over the last two seasons…The Rockets have 14
games left in the regular season. Seven are on home ice with 7 on the road…The
Rockets have scored six or more goals nine times on home ice this season… The
Rockets are 14-3-0-0 in the second game when facing back-to-back scenarios this
season….The team has been rated as the best team in the CHL according to the
Top 10 junior rankings for a 7th consecutive week….Six alumni of the
Rockets’ are playing for their
respective countries at the Sochi Olympics. Jamie Benn, Shea Weber and Duncan
Keith will wear colours for Canada. Alex Edler (Sweden), Lauris Darzins (
Latvia) and Thomas Raffl (Austria) will also compete…After losing two of his first three games,
Jackson Whistle has won thirteen of his last fourteen games….The
Rockets have played in eight shootout games this season and are 4 and 4. Three
of the four shootout wins have come on the road in Victoria, Prince George and
Seattle…Jordon Cooke is 40-6-0-3 at home in last 49 starts at home dating back
to last season…The Rockets have scored 4 or more goals in 22 of their 30 road
games this season…In 6 of the Rockets 8 regulation losses this season, leading
scorer Myles Bell has failed to score…
Milestone
Makers:
Damon Severson will
play in his 248th career game tonight – 2 shy of 250.
Tyrell Goulbourne
plays in his 200th career game tonight.
Ryan Huska, according
to HockeyDB, has 288 WHL regular season victories.
Cole Martin is playing
in career game 197 tonight – 3 shy of 200.
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