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Tonight’s Preview: The
Kelowna Rockets play game three of a four game home stand tonight against the
visiting Prince George Cougars. This is the fifth of eight meetings between the
two teams’ this season. The Rockets are 4-0-0-0, having won all four games in
Prince George by a combined score of 27-9. In all four games, the Rockets have
scored no less than 6 times. The Cougars will make three more visits to
Prospera Place on December 30th, January 3rd and February 9th.
The Rockets are coming off a 5-1 win over the visiting Saskatoon Blades
Wednesday night. Rourke Chartier scored his league leading 30th and
31st goals of the season while Nick Merkley (1+2=3) and Madison
Bowey (0+3=3) had three point outings. Jake Morrissey, making his first start
of his career on home ice, earned the win improving to 3-0-0-0. The Rockets host
Prince Albert tomorrow night. Following these two games this weekend, the Rockets
concluded the pre-Christmas schedule with five straight games on the road. They
include dates in Lethbridge (Dec 10), Medicine Hat (Dec 12), Calgary (Dec 14),
Edmonton (Dec 16) and Red Deer (Dec 17).
Season Series scoring breakdown
vs. Cougars:
Period: 1
2 3 OT
Total
Rockets: 9
12 6 0
27
Cougars: 3 2 2 0
7
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The Cougars have opened the scoring in three
of the four games.
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The Rockets have out-shot the Cougars in
three of the four games.
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The Rockets have a power play goal in all
four games (13/27 or 48.1%). The Cougars are 3 for 20 (15%).
First to 30: Rourke
Chartier became the first Kelowna Rockets player to reach 30 goals in under 30
games. Chartier has 31 goals in 28 games after scoring twice on Wednesday. That
breaks the old mark of the quickest player to 30 goals, set by Brett McLean,
who scored 30 goals in 30 games in the 1997-98 season. Here are other Rockets
players to reach 30 goals in a short period of time.
1)
Rourke
Chartier: 30 goals in 28 games (2014-2015).
2)
Brett
McLean: 30 goals in 30 games (1997-98).
3)
Jamie Benn:
30 goals in 36 games (2008-2009).
4)
Jason
Deleurme: 30 goals in 36 games (1997-98).
5)
Chuck
Kobasew: 30 goals in 39 games (2001-2002).
The Saskatoon Sniper: Rourke Chartier
had 18+10=28 in the month of November. In 14 games, Chartier scored a goal in
12 of them. The 18 year-old had points in 13 of those 14 games. Chartier had 9
multiple point games in the month. Chartier had 6-3 point games and three-two
point games. By comparison, last seasons’ WHL scoring champion Mitch Holmberg
had 12+14=26 in November. The only player to record more points over the last
five seasons in the month of November is Portland’s Brendan Leipsic. Leipsic
had 9+21=30 in November 2012.
Walking wounded:
Tanner
Wishnowski: missed 29 games Mitch
Wheaton: missed 25 games
Dillon
Dube: missed 25 games Dalton
Yorke: missed 12 games
Austin
Glover: missed 11 games Joe
Gatenby: missed 7 games
Justin
Kirkland: missed 6 games Jake
Morrissey: missed 6 games.
Jesse
Lees: missed 3 games Cole
Martin: missed 1 game
Total # of games = 126
man games lost to injury. (Unofficial)
World Junior Bound:
Congratulations Madison Bowey and Rourke Chartier for being two of 29 players
named to Team Canada’s training camp roster for the WJHC. Kelowna Rockets
forward Kris Schmidli will participate in the upcoming World Junior’s with Switzerland.
Rockets majority owner Bruce Hamilton is a member of Team Canada’s management
team.
Bowey on the Blueline:
Madison
Bowey is 6th all time in Kelowna Rockets d-scoring with 145 career
points. Bowey has 49 career goals and 96 career assists = 145 points. Here are
the franchise leaders:
1)Tyson
Barrie: 228 4)Josh Gorges:152
2)Burt
Henderson:186 5) Mike Card:147
3)Damon
Severson:167 6) Madison Bowey:145
This and That: The
Rockets traded 20 year-old Colton Heffley to the PA Raiders on Tuesday for a 4th
round bantam pick…Rourke Chartier was named the WHL Player of the month for
November…Nick Merkley is rated 22nd by the International Scouting
Service for this June’s NHL draft….The Rockets have been held to three goals or
less only 7 times this season….Nick Merkley has 15 multiple point games….Rourke
Chartier has been held off the score-sheet four times this season…In case you
are wondering, the Rockets have not been shut-out in 104 consecutive games. The
last time the Rockets were held without a goal was March 3, 2013 in a 3-0 loss
in Kamloops…Tyrell Goulbourne hit the 100 point plateau for his career with a
goal Wednesday night…The Rockets are rated 2nd in the CHL Top 10
rankings this week for a second consecutive week…Nick Merkley is rated 22nd
by the International Scouting Service.
1 comment:
Sure hope to get some post-game reports from you this time Regan.
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