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Game Day Preview: The Kelowna Rockets face
the Kamloops Blazers for the 7th of 8 times this season. The Rockets
host the Blazers tomorrow night. The Rockets are 6-0-0-0 in the seasonal series,
having out-scored the Blazers 24-10. Kole Lind leads the team in scoring in the
seasonal series with 7+7=14. Cal Foote has 1+8=9 while Kyle Topping has 2+4=6.
Dillon Dube has played in just two games against the Blazers yet has 4+1=5.
Brodan Salmond is 4-0-0-0 with a goals against average 2.25. The Rockets, winless
in a season high five games, play their second to last road game of the regular
season. The Rockets are in Vancouver one week from tonight. The Rockets are
coming off a 4-3 overtime loss Wednesday night to the Vancouver Giants. Carsen
Twarynski scored twice and Erik Gardiner added his 7th goal of the
season in the setback. James Porter Junior, named the second star for a second
consecutive outing, made 32 saves in the setback. Overall, the Rockets have
points in 23 of their last 35 games (19-12-3-1)
Kole Lind: Earned two assists
Wednesday night surpassing his career point total (87) from last season. Lind now
has 89 points this season. The 19 year-old has been held off the score-sheet
just 6 times and leads the team with 22 road goals. Lind is a career best +70.
Carsen Twarynski: Has goals in three
straight games. Twarynski has 10 multiple goal games with 27 of his 42 goals
scored on home ice. Only once this season has the 20 year-old not had a shot on
goal.
Cal Foote: With points in 8 of
his last 9 games, Foote has scored 10 of his 17 goals this season on home.
Foote leads the team in power play assists with 27. Foote has 21 multiple point
games this season.
Dillon Dube: The only original
member of the 2015 WHL championship team, Dube has points in 7 of his last 8
games (5+9=14). Dube has 39 points in 54 playoff games. Dube is a career +52.
Broadcasters Notebook:
James
Hilsendager plays in his 100th career WHL game tonight as a member
of the Kelowna Rockets….Rookies Colum McGauley and Kyle Pow both turn 18 on
March 11th….Kole Lind signed an entry level contract with the NHL’s
Vancouver Canucks last Thursday. Lind was a second round pick of the Canucks in
last June’s draft…Cal Foote has 17 goals. The franchise record is 21 set by
Madison Bowey in 2014-2015…..The Rockets have 13 shorthanded goals this season,
1 more than all of last season…The team has 23 wins at home, matching their win
total from last season at Prospera Place…Kole Lind played in his 200th
career game Wednesday night…Dillon Dube plays in his 200th game this
evening. Cal Foote will play in career game #200 Saturday night at home against
Kamloops…Erik Gardiner returned to the line-up February 9th in
Victoria after missing 39 games with an upper body injury…The Rockets have five
hat-tricks this season from Carsen Twarynski (vs. Portland/Prince George), and Kole
Lind (PA/Kamloops/Prince George)……The Rockets had their 13 game home ice
winning streak snapped January 5th vs. Seattle…The Rockets are 7 and
4 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… …Dillon
Dube has scored 20+ goals in three consecutive seasons…….The Rockets are
3-7-2-0 in their last 12 road games….The Rockets are 18-7-2-0 against teams in
the BC Division… Goaltender Brodan Salmond has started in 7 of the last 11
games and 9 of the last 15…. Carsen Twarynski scored his 40th goal
of the season last Saturday night in a 4-2 loss to Spokane. The 20 year-old is
the first Rockets forward to score 40+ goals since Tyson Baillie (43) in the
2015-2016 season. If Kole Lind can score three more goals to join Twarynski, it
will mark the first time since 1996-1997 that the team has had two-40 goal
scorers. Jason Deleurme and Brett McLean hold that distinction.
Roster Stats:
Player
total:
25
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
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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