Tonight’s Preview The Rockets enter the final weekend of the regular season having won three of their last four games. Over that period the Rockets have out-scored the opposition 13-7. This is the 8th and final meeting of the season between the Rockets and Giants. The Rockets are 3-3-1-0 in the first seven games. The Rockets are 2-1-1-0 at home and 1-2-0-0 at Pacific Coliseum. These two teams met last Saturday in Kelowna with the Rockets earning a 3-0 win. The Rockets lone win in Vancouver came October 9th in a 2-1 victory. Lucas Bloodoff and Shane McColgan scored power play goals in the win. Overall the Rockets have points in 17 of their last 23 games (15-6-0-2). The Rockets have only been out-shot four times in their last 22 games. Following tonight’s game the Rockets close out the regular season tomorrow night at home against Prince George.
Barrie on verge of breaking record: Defenceman Tyson Barrie is one point shy of the franchise record for points in one season by a defenceman. Barrie has 70 points, one back of Tomas Slovak’s 71, set during the 2002-2003 season. Slovak had 18+53=71 in 65 games that season. Barrie has 19+51=70 in 61 games this season. Barrie’s offensive totals stack up well against other d-man across the CHL. David Savard of Moncton (QMJHL) has 76 points while Nick Crawford (Barrie) leads the OHL with 70 points, the same number as Barrie. Both Savard and Crawford are 19 year-olds. Barrie is still 18. Barrie has been involved in the scoring in 73% of the games he’s played this season. He has been held off the score-sheet just 16 times. By comparison, Jamie Benn was held off the score-sheet 13 times last season.
Who’s Hot – Who’s Not: Since returning from the WJHC, Brandon McMillan has 11+20=31 in 32 games…McMillan has 20 goals this season, a career high after scoring 15 times in 2007-2008….The Rockets have lost just three times when the 19 year-old scores...Tyson Barrie has 3+3=6 in his last seven games…Brandon McMillan has 7+14=21 in his last sixteen games and is riding an eight game point streak (5+8=13)….McMillan now has 157 career assists….Barrie has 128 career assists….Adam Brown has started seventeen of the teams last twenty-three games.…Adam Brown is 11-3-0-4 in his last eighteen starts…Shane McColgan has points in four of his last seven games (four assists) and has just one goal in his last 14 games…The Rockets have allowed just eight power play goals against in their last nineteen games…Dallas Jackson has 3+10=13 in 16 games since being acquired at the trade deadline. Geordie Wudrick has 17+14=31 in 36 games with the Rockets since he was acquired from Swift Current in November….The Rockets have played 25 games since the trade deadline. The Rockets have a point in 18 of those 25 games and are 14-7-0-4 over that period… The Rockets are 6 and 4 in the shootout this season. The Rockets only shootout losses have come against Kamloops, Portland, Chilliwack and Lethbridge. Adam Brown has been in goal for all four shootout losses…Dallas Jackson had a four game point streak snapped Tuesday in Spokane…Jackson has a point in nine of his last eleven games (1+10=11)…The Rockets have as many power play goals (80)as they did last season (80).
Game Day Tidbits: Shane McColgan is attempting to win the WHL rookie scoring title. The last time a Rockets player led the league in scoring as a rookie was in 1996-97, when Scott King collected 97 points (40+57=97)….The Rockets are 6 and 6 in situations that feature three games in three nights….The Rockets have lost 30 times this season. Last season the Rockets lost just 21 times….Tyson Barrie has a three point lead on Kevin Connauton of the Vancouver Giants for the WHL scoring lead by defencemen with 70 points.…The Rockets have been involved in thirty (30) one goal games this season. The Rockets are 15-10-2-3 in those thirty games…Tyson Barrie leads the team with 11 power play goals….Tyson Barrie has a team high 51 assists, 11 more than he had all of last season…McColgan has a one point lead on Giants d-man Kevin Connauton for the WHL lead in scoring by rookies with 68 points…Ryan Huska recorded his 100th regular season victory December 4th against Edmonton…Defenceman Mitchell Chapman and forward Brett Bulmer are rated by NHL Central Scouting for this summers draft in Los Angeles. Chapman is rated 151st while Bulmer is ranked 164th among North American born skaters…The Rockets have 1 home game and 1 road games left for a total of 2. Of those two games, both are against teams based in the BC Division….Brandon McMillan collected his 100th career assist vs. Edmonton on February 3rd…The Rockets have twelve players with 10 or more goals. Last season the Rockets had 12 players with 10 or more goals…Geordie Wudrick is 5 for 5 in shootouts…Sixteen year-old Jason Siebert made his WHL debut last Friday against Seattle. Siebert was the Rockets 1st round pick – 17th overall – in the 2009 WHL Bantam Draft…Tyson Barrie scored three times last Saturday against Vancouver becoming the first Rockets d-man in franchise history to score three goals in one game…..The Rockets have 214 goals, one shy of the 215 scored in 04/05. That season the team won a league title.
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