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Game Day Preview: The Kelowna Rockets
have just six games left on the road this season. The team faces the Kamloops
Blazers in the 5th of 8 meetings between these two teams. Having not
seen each other since way back on December 29th, the Rockets are
4-0-0-0 in the seasonal series with wins of 6-2, 5-1, 2-1 in a shootout and
3-0. The Rockets are coming off a 4-1 loss to the Red Deer Rebels Wednesday
night. Despite firing 37 shots on goal, only Kyle Topping was able to score in
the teams 6th loss on home ice this season. Overall the Rockets have
out-scored the Blazers 16-4 with games tonight, February 24th, March 9th
and March 10th. Overall, the Rockets
have points in 17 of their last 25 games (15-8-2-0). The Rockets host the
Edmonton Oil Kings tomorrow night before welcoming Prince George on Tuesday and
Seattle one week from tonight at Prospera Place.
Broadcasters Notebook:
With
15 games left in the regular season, 9 of the 15 will be played on home ice.
The only six road games are in Kamloops (twice), Prince George (twice), Everett
and Vancouver…The Rockets 20 home ice wins is the second most of any team in
the Western Conference (tied with Victoria). The Everett Silvertips have 21
home ice victories…The Rockets and Victoria Royals were fined $500.00 each for a
fight between Kyle Pow and Braydon Buziak in Monday’s game…Erik Gardiner
returned to the line-up February 9th in Victoria after missing 39
games with an upper body injury.…. Kole Lind had his 20 game point streak snapped
February 3rd in Everett. Lind had 15+23=38 over that period, which
was good for the third longest point streak in franchise history. Tyson Barrie
had a 21 game point streak in 2009-2010 while the team record is 24 games set
by Brett McLean. McLean had 18+31=49 in the 1996-1997 campaign….James Porter
was named the WHL and CHL Goaltender of the Week ending December 31st
after posting a 2-0-0-0 record including one shutout with a goals against
average of 0.48 and a save percentage of .987…The Rockets have four hat-tricks
this season from Carsen Twarynski (vs. Portland/Prince George), and Kole Lind (Prince
Albert/Kamloops)…The Rockets have sent 17 players to Canada’s roster at the World
Junior… The Rockets had their 13 game home ice winning streak snapped January 5th
vs. Seattle…The Rockets are 7 and 3 in overtime with game winners coming from
Kole Lind (twice), Dillon Dube Carsen Twarynski (twice) and Cal Foote (twice).
The only losses in OT came against the Tri City Americans, Portland
Winterhawks, Red Deer Rebels and Victoria Royals……NHL Central Scouting has
released its mid-term rankings. Forward Kyle Topping is rated 65th
among North American skaters. Defenceman Libor Zabransky is rated 110th…Dillon
Dube has scored 20+ goals in three consecutive seasons. Dube had 20 goals last
season in 40 games and had a career high 26 in 2015-2016.…The Rockets won their
30th game of the season January 24th vs. Lethbridge,
marking the 11th straight season the team has achieved that mark.
The last time they fell short was in 2006-2007 when the team earned 22 victories…Liam
Kindree is missing his 21st straight game with a lower body injury.
Digg’n Deeper: Kole Lind reached
the 30 goal mark Monday in a win over Victoria. The 19 year-old is the first
Rockets player since Tyson Ballie to score 30+ goals in back-to-back seasons.
Baillie had 37 goals as a 19 year-old and scored 43 times as a 20 year-old…The
Rockets are 2-4-2-0 in their last 8 road games….Dillon Dube hit the 200 point
mark in his career Friday February 9th in Victoria….Carsen Twarynski
is playing in his 83rd regular season game as a member of the
Rockets. Twarynski has 80 points in those 83 games….The Rockets are 15-5-1-0
against teams in the BC Division…The Rockets have opened the scoring 31 times
this season…The opposition has opened the scoring in 4 straight games.
Streaking: Cal Foote has points
in 17 of his last 20 games…Dillon Dube has points in 17 of his last 19
games…Leif Mattson has points in 9 of his last 10 games.
Roster
Stats:
Player
total:
26
Year by
Year Breakdown:
20’s (1997) – 3 Ballhorn, Twarynski, Hilsendager
19’s (1998) - 5 Salmond, Lind, Dube, Cal Foote,
Chizen
18’s (1999) - 6 Topping, Mattson, Gardiner, Bruggen-Cate, Cowell, Skvrne
17’s (2000) - 9
Porter, Foote, Zabransky, Kindree,
Brennan, McGauley, Kushniryk, Pow, Hair
16’s (2001) - 2 Korczak, Basran
15’s (2002) - 1 Cole Tisdale
NHL
Drafted Players: Cal
Foote (Tampa Bay 2017), Kole Lind (Vancouver 2017), Dillon Dube (Calgary 2016),
Carsen Twarynski (Philadelphia 2016), Brayden Chizen (Minnesota 2016).
Game Notes Compiled by Regan Bartel of AM 1150
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