REGAN’S GAME NOTES – FEB. 12 VS. CHILLIWACK
Rockets vs. Bruins
Saturday February 12, 2011
Game Time 7:00 pm
Tonight’s Preview: The Kelowna Rockets are meeting the Chilliwack Bruins for the sixth of eight times this season. The Rockets are 3-1-0-1, having out-scored the Bruins 25-18 in the first five meetings. Tonight’s game is the seventh of seven straight games against teams in the BC Division. The Rockets are in Everett tomorrow night to conclude three games in three nights. Overall the Rockets have won four of their last five games (4-0-0-1) at home but have dropped their last three outings (0-2-0-1). The Rockets are in Vancouver Wednesday to conclude a three game road trip before hosting the Giants and Spokane next weekend.
Seasonal Series Breakdown:
1 2 3 OT SO Total
Rockets 8 12 5 0 0 25
Bruins 5 5 7 0 1 18
- The Rockets are 9 for 30 (30%) on the power play in the seasonal series. The Bruins are 3 for 30 (10%) with the extra man. The Rockets have out-shot the Bruins in three of the five games.
Rockets recent game: Evan Bloodoff scored twice in the Rockets 5-4 loss last night to the Chilliwack Bruins in a shootout. Spencer Main and Colton Sissons also scored, as the Rockets lost for the first time outside of regulation time. Kelowna was 2 for 4 on the power play while allowing two goals on ten Bruins power play chances. The Rockets out-shot the visitors 34-25.
Who’s Hot: Evan Bloodoff has four goals in his last four games….Cody Chike has ten points in his last six games (2+8=10)…Mitchell Callahan has 8+13=21 in his last twenty-two games…Brett Bulmer has points in ten of his last 13 games…Spencer Main scored for the first time in 12 games in last night’s loss.
This and That: The Rockets have 13 road wins this season. Last year the team won just 15 times on opposition ice…..The Rockets have 30 wins this season. Last season they had 35 victories…The Rockets have 17 home ice wins this season. Last year they had 20 home victories….The Rockets have 60 points this season. Last season the team had 16 more points at season’s end (76)…..Adam Brown has 74 career wins, which is good for second place on the Rockets all-time list. Brown is 9 wins shy of Kelly Guard’s 83 victories…..The Rockets are 17 and 3 when Geordie Wudrick scores…. The Rockets have just 19 games left in the regular season. Ten of those 20 games are on home ice. Ten of those games are against teams in the BC Division…..The Rockets are in a stretch of playing ten games in the next 16 days…The Rockets have averaged 4.3 goals per game on home ice this season….The Rockets have allowed the 6th fewest goals against in the WHL (158). Only Red Deer (130), Tri City (152), Spokane (153), Med Hat (154) and Saskatoon (157) have allowed fewer goals…Shane McColgan leads the Rockets in road points with 21. McColgan is followed by Brett Bulmer (19) and Zach Franko (16)…..Since the start of November the Rockets have lost just twelve times in their last 39 games (26-12-0-1). The Rockets lost ten times in their first 14 games to start the season….Jason Siebert is missing his 29th straight games after undergoing surgery on his wrist….Adam Brown moved into second place all-time on the Kelowna Rockets list of games played by a goalie. Brown has played 133 games, four more than Kristofer Westblom. The franchise leader is Kevin Swanson with 167 games played… The Rockets have allowed the fewest goals against on the road in the WHL this season (70)….The Rockets have scored 55 more goals at home than on the road. The Rockets have played 28 games at home and 25 times on opposition ice…The Rockets have been involved in seventeen one goal games this season. The Rockets are 11-5-0-1 in those seventeen one goal games…Adam Brown has started thirty-seven of the last 43 games…The Rockets franchise played in its 1400th regular season game December 14th in Medicine Hat. The team has 727 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 53 regular season games this season. They are Zach Franko, Kevin Smith, Evan Bloodoff and Spencer Main…The Rockets are 11-7-0-1 in nineteen games since returning from the Christmas break…The Rockets have scored 6 or more goals on home ice ten times this season…Tyson Barrie has three times as many assists as he does goals over his career…Two members of the Rockets are taking part in the Canada Winter Games in Halifax. Jesse Lees is playing for Team Alberta while Madison Bowey is a member of Team Manitoba.
Next five games:
Feb 13 @ Everett
Feb 16/11 @ Vancouver
Feb 18 vs.Spokane
Feb 19 vs. Vancouver
Feb 22 @ Kootenay
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: 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: 14-10-0-0 vs. US: 9-7-0-0 vs. Central: 4-3-0-0 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 1-1-0-1 1-0-0-1 0-1-0-0
March: 10 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0
Game notes compiled by AM 1150’s Regan Bartel
