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Game Day Preview: Welcome home! The
Kelowna Rockets return home for the first time in 8 games when they host the Regina
Pats in the lone meeting of the season. The Rockets are enjoying playing 6 of their
next 8 games at Prospera Place after completing their longest road trip of the
season, going 2-3-1-0 on a 6 game in 9 night road trip. The team earned 3-1
wins in Seattle and Edmonton and suffered a 4-3 overtime loss in Prince George,
earning 5 out of a possible 12 points. The Rockets host Victoria Friday before
visiting the Everett Silvertips Saturday night. The team is 5-3-1-0 in 9 games
under new head coach Adam Foote.
Broadcasters
Notebook: Lane
Zablocki played 105 regular season games with the Pats (2015-2017) collecting
27+35=62 over that period….Erik Gardiner was acquired from the Pats November
30, 2016 in a deal that saw the team acquire James Hilsendager for defenceman
Jonathon Smart. Smart was eventually dealt to the Kootenay Ice. Gardiner was
the Pats second round pick in 2014...Rockets Athletic Therapist Scott Hoyer was
born in Regina. Subsequently, Pats Athletic Therapist Greg Mayer was born in
Kelowna…Nolan Foote has the same number of goals, 13, as he did a season ago.
Foote had a career high 19 goals in his rookie season….Leif Mattson’s three assists
in Edmonton Saturday gave him 99 career points…Mattson has gone 14 games
without a goal…Nolan Foote has 95 career points…Foote had 6 goals in his
opening 21 games as a rookie and had 5 goals in his opening 21 games in his sophomore
season. This season, the third year forward has 13 goals in 21 games….Liam
Kindree’s goals in Edmonton Saturday was his first in 10 games…Kyle Topping
turned 19 on Sunday…Nolan Foote turns 18 on November 29th …Four members
of the Kelowna Rockets have been named to NHL Central Scouting’s November
“Players to Watch’ List. Forward Nolan Foote is an ‘A’ prospect, meaning a
first round candidate. Kaedan Korczak is a ‘B’ prospect which means he is
projected to be selected in the second or third round. Roman Basran and Lassi
Thomson are ‘C’ prospects, which means he could be taken in the third to the
seventh round…Adam Foote was officially named the new head coach of the Kelowna
Rockets on October 23, 2018 replacing Jason Smith.
Trade Winds: The Rockets traded 18
year-old Wil Kushniryk to the Tri City Americans on October 22, 2018 for a 5th
round bantam pick. The Rockets acquired 20 year-old defenceman Dalton Galley October
10, 2018 from the Medicine Hat Tigers for a 10th round bantam pick.
The hockey club acquired 18 year-old forward Michael Farren October 11th
from the Saskatoon Blades for a third round WHL bantam pick. The Rockets acquired
20 year-old Lane Zablocki for a conditional 7th round and
conditional 4th round bantam draft pick on September 29th.
Season Highs/Lows:
Most goals scored: 8 @ Victoria October
19/18 (8-2 W)
Most goals allowed: 9 vs. Seattle October
10th, 2018 (9-6 L)
Most shots on net: 45 @ Seattle October
6th, 2018 (4-1 L).
Fewest shots on net: 13 @ Edmonton November
17, 2018 (3-1 L)
Most shots allowed: 50 @ Portland
November 10, 2018 (3-0 L)
Fewest shots allowed:
20 @ Victoria October 19, 2018 (8-2 W)
Last time shut out at
home: October
3rd, 2018 vs. Vancouver (5-0 L)
Last time shut out on
road: November
10, 2018 @ Portland (3-0 L)
Most power play goals
allowed: 4
vs. Seattle October 10th, 2018 (9-6 L). T-Birds were 4/5 on power
play.
Most power play goals
scored:
4 @ Victoria October 19, 2018 (8-2 W)
Roster
Stats:
Player
total:
24
Year by
Year Breakdown:
20’s (1998) – 3 Gally, Zablocki, Chizen
19’s (1999) - 5 Topping, Mattson, Gardiner, Bruggen-Cate,
Cowell
18’s (2000) – 9 Farren, Thomson,
Porter, Foote, Zabransky, Kindree, Brennan, Pow, Steffler,
17’s (2001) - 6
Korczak, Crosbie, Basran, Liwiski, Wilton,
Augustine
16’s (2002) - 1 Ernst
Game Notes Compiled by Regan Bartel of AM 1150
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