Game Notes: Kelowna at Medicine Hat
Rockets @ Tigers
Wednesday February 23, 2011
Game Time 7:00 pm
Tonight’s Preview: The Kelowna Rockets are meeting the Medicine Hat Tigers for the 3rd and final time this season. The Rockets are 0-2-0-0 after a 2-0 loss at Medicine Hat (Dec 14th) and a 5-2 loss at home (Jan 15). Following tonight’s game the Rockets are in Red Deer Friday before visiting the Hitmen in Calgary Saturday night. The Rockets are playing four games over the next five nights.
Rockets recent game: Jordon Cooke made 47 saves in the Rockets 4-2 loss last night to the Kootenay Ice. Kevin Smith and Geordie Wudrick scored two-third period goals to tie the game before the Ice would score the next two in their 39th win of the season. The Rockets gave up a season high 51 shots on goal with goaltender Jordon Cooke being named the games second star. The Rockets were 1 for 3 on the power play while giving up two power play goals of their own.
Who’s Hot: Colton Sissons has goals in five of his last ten games…Evan Bloodoff has seven goals in his last ten games….Cody Chike has eleven points in his last twelve games (2+9=11)…Mitchell Callahan has 9+13=22 in his last twenty-five games…Brett Bulmer has points in eleven of his last 15 games…Shane McColgan hasn’t scored a goal in ten games…Tyson Barrie hasn’t scored in 14 games. That’s his longest scoring drought of the season.
This and That: The Rockets have 15 road wins this season. Last year the team won just 15 times on opposition ice…..The Rockets have 33 wins this season. Last season they had 35 victories…The Rockets have 18 home ice wins this season. Last year they had 20 home victories….The Rockets have 67 points this season. Last season the team had 9 more points at season’s end (76)…..Adam Brown has 76 career wins, which is good for second place on the Rockets all-time list. Brown is 7 wins shy of Kelly Guard’s 83 victories…..The Rockets are 19 and 4 when Geordie Wudrick scores…. The Rockets have just 13 games left in the regular season…The Rockets are in a stretch of playing ten games in the next 16 days…Shane McColgan leads the Rockets in road points with 23. McColgan is followed by Brett Bulmer (20)…..Since the start of November the Rockets have lost just fifteen times in regulation during their last 45 games (29-15-0-1). The Rockets lost ten times in their first 14 games to start the season….Jason Siebert is missing his 35th straight games after undergoing surgery on his wrist….The Rockets have allowed the fewest goals against on the road in the WHL this season (81)….The Rockets have scored 53 more goals at home than on the road. The Rockets have played 30 games at home and 29 times on opposition ice…The Rockets have been involved in nineteen-one goal games this season. The Rockets are 12-6-0-1 in those nineteen one goal games…Adam Brown has started forty of the last 48 games…The Rockets franchise played in its 1400th regular season game December 14th in Medicine Hat. The team has 730 regular season wins….The Rockets were 8 and 10 in 18 games this season without Tyson Barrie in the lineup. Barrie missed seven games at the start of the season with a hip injury and eleven games as a member of Team Canada….Only four players have played in all 59 regular season games this season. They are Zach Franko, Kevin Smith, Evan Bloodoff and Spencer Main…The Rockets are 14-10-0-1 in twenty-four games since returning from the Christmas break…The Rockets have scored 6 or more goals on home ice eleven (11) times this season…Over the last nine games the Rockets have scored ten goals in their last 48 power play chances (20.8%)…..Wudrick (3) and Sissons (1) have hat tricks…The Rockets have received the most power play chances of any team in the WHL this season. The Rockets have gone to the power play 329 times, four more than Red Deer…Colton Jobke is serving game six of a seven game suspension for an interference major earlier this month against the Chilliwack Bruins…
Next three games:
Feb 25th @ Red Deer
Feb 26 @ Calgary
March 2 @ Kamloops
Milestone Makers:
Ryan Huska coached in his 250th WHL game Jan 21/11 @ Seattle.
Geordie Wudrick played in his 325th WHL game vs. Prince George Jan 28/11
Brett Bulmer played in his 100th career game December 15th in Lethbridge.
Evan Bloodoff played in his 250th WHL game January 14th against Portland.
Zak Stebner played in his 250th WHL game January 21st @ Seattle
Mitchell Chapman played in his 100th WHL game February 4th in Prince George.
Rockets Season Highs and Lows:
Most Goals Scored: 9, vs. Chilliwack November 6/10 (9-3 W)
Most Goals Allowed: 7, vs. Vancouver October 20/10 (7-5 L)
Most Power Play Chances: 10, vs. Chilliwack Feb 2/11 (6-4 W), vs. Cougars Jan 28/11 (7-3 W), vs. Everett December 28/10 (4-0 W).
Most Power Play Goals Scored: 4, vs. Everett December 28th (4 for 10), vs. Chillwack November 6/10 (9-3 W)
Most Power Play Goals Allowed: 3, vs. Medicine Hat Jan 15/11 (5-2 L), @ Portland Oct 30/10 (6-1 L), vs. Giants Oct 20/10 (7-5 L), @ Vancouver October 9/10 (4-1 L)
Most Shots Taken: 49 vs. Raiders October 10/10 (3-2 OTW)
Fewest Shots Taken: 15, @ Tri City Jan 23/11 (4-3 W), 17 @ Spokane Jan 22/11 (5-3 W)
Most Shot Allowed: 51 @ Kootenay Feb 22/11 (4-2 L), 46 vs. Portland Jan 14/11 (5-3 W)
Fewest Shots Allowed: 19 vs. Bruins November 8/10 (9-3 W)
Last Shutout: Adam Brown 26 saves December 28/10 in a 4-0 win vs. Everett.
Last Time Shutout: 3-0 in Prince George Feb 5/11, 2-0 in Med Hat Dec 14/10, 4-0 loss in Kamloops, Nov 13/10, 1-0 loss in Tri City October 1/10 – Drew Owsley 34 saves.
Penalty Shots: Colten Mayor on Adam Brown (no goal) Dec 10/10 in a 5-1 win vs. Red Deer. Evan Bloodoff on Jeff Bosch (no goal), Nov 3/10 in a 5-2 win. Taylor Peters on Adam Brown (no goal), Oct 30/10 in a 6-1 Hawks win.
Shootout Game Winning Goals: Shane McColgan vs. Lethbridge Dec 15/10 (3-2), Tyson Barrie vs. Everett Oct 22/10 (4-3 W), Geordie Wudrick @ Everett October 10/10 (4-3 W)
OT Game Winning Goal: Geordie Wudrick scores :42 seconds into overtime in a 3-2 win in Spokane Nov 27/10, Evan Bloodoff scores at 1:13 in a 2-1 win over Prince George Nov 20/10, Brett Bulmer scores at 3:33 in a 3-2 win over Raiders Oct 10/10
vs. BC: 16-10-0-1 vs. US: 10-8-0-0 vs. Central: 4-4-0-0 vs. East: 3-3-0-0
Roster Stats:
Player total: 24
Year by Year Breakdown:
20’s – 3 Bloodoff, Wudrick, Stebner,
19’s – 6 Barrie, Brown, Smith, Callahan, Stene, Chikie
18’s – 6 Main, Bulmer, Jobke, Chapman, Adolph
17’s – 6 McColgan, Johnston, Astles, Franko, Sissons, Cooke
16’s – 3 Siebert, Severson. Heffley
Average Age: 17.91
Record by Month:
Month Games Record Home Road
September: 2 0-2-0-0 0-2-0-0 0-0-0-0
October: 12 4-8-0-0 2-4-0-0 2-4-0-0
November: 11 10-1-0-0 5-0-0-0 5-1-0-0
December: 11 7-4-0-0 4-1-0-0 3-3-0-0
January: 13 8-5-0-0 5-3-0-0 3-2-0-0
February: 13 4-4-0-1 2-1-0-1 2-3-0-0
March: 10 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0
Game notes compiled by AM 1150’s Regan
