Eric Comrie |
This and That: Rockets
Assistant Coach Kris Mallette has the bragging rights over this current NHL player
and former Canuck, having been drafted well before him in the 1997 NHL draft.
The answer at the bottom of ‘This and That’….Who will score the Kelowna Rockets
5 thousandth goal? The team, since re-locating from Tacoma to Kelowna, has scored
4 thousand 990 goals….The Rockets have 768 regular season wins in Kelowna
dating back to the start of the 1995-96 season….The Rockets were 36-5-0-2 after
43 games last season. This season the team is 33-7-3-0 after 43 games…The
Rockets this season has taken 369 fewer shots after 43 games than a year ago.
That averages out to 9 fewer shots on the visitors net per game…The team has
allowed 79 fewer shots on net at the same time last year…Rourke Chartier is one
point shy of his career high of 58 points set last season…Chartier has just one
goal in his last five games…Justin Kirkland is two goals shy of his career high
17 he scored last season...The opposition has opened the scoring in four of the
last six games…Rodney Southam has more point this season in 26 games than he
had in 63 games with the Tri City Americans over three seasons…The Rockets
played 11 games without Madison Bowey and Josh Morrissey. The Rockets were 9-2-0-0
in those 11 games.…Gage Quinney has 4+3=7 in 10 games with the Rockets… The
Rockets have played in 11-one goal games this season. The team is 7-2-0-2 in
those games. The two-one goal losses in regulation time came against the
Portland Winterhawks and Prince George Cougars…Tyson Baillie set a new career
high with his 27th goal of the season Wednesday night. Baillie has
85 career goals and is 15 points shy of 200 for his career…The Rockets won
their 30th game January 2nd; marking the 14th time in the
last 15 seasons the franchise has achieved that mark. The only blemish over
that stretch was a 22 win season in 2006-2007, the only time they have failed
to make the playoffs….The Rockets are 40-8-1-1 in the last two seasons against
teams in the BC Division…Nick Merkley will represent the WHL at the Top
Prospects game later this month in St. Catharine’s Ontario….The Rockets have
not been shut-out in 119 consecutive games. The last time the Rockets were held
without a goal was March 3, 2013 in a 3-0 loss in Kamloops…Defenceman Riley
Stadel turns 19 on Friday….Rockets Head Coach Dan Lambert (Jan 12th) and
Assistant Coach Travis Crickard (Jan 11th) blew out candles a few
days ago. Assistant Kris Mallette gets his ‘party started’ on January 19th…Kris
Mallette was taken in the 3rd round of the 1997 NHL draft by
Philadelphia, three rounds ahead of Matt Cooke, who has played one thousand 36
games in the NHL with Vancouver, Washington, Pittsburgh and the Minnesota Wild.
Cooke was taken in the 6th round by the Canucks in 1997.
Three Star Balloting:
Player: 1st
Star 2nd Star 3rd Star Total
Jackson Whistle: 7 4 2
13
Rourke Chartier: 5 4 2 11
Nick Merkley: 5 2 4 11
Tyson Baillie: 1 5 2 8
Madison Bowey: 2 2 3 7
*Other first star
winners are: Leon Draisaitl, Tyrell Goulbourne and Cole Martin.
Who’s Hot: Leon
Draisaitl has goals in three straight games…Tyson Baillie has 6+4=10 in his last
9 games….Rourke Chartier has 4+2=6 in his last 7 games…Chartier has points in 12
of his last 15 games…Cole Martin has 11 assists in his last 11 games…Justin
Kirkland has 6+9=15 in his last 10 games…Rourke Chartier has 12 more goals (36)
than he had all of last season. Chartier has goals in 19 of his last 26 games….Nick
Merkley has 9+28=37 in his last 27 games.
Walking wounded:
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