Rockets face CHL's best
The wait is over
The Kelowna Rockets are attempting to become just the tenth host team in the modern Memorial Cup era to win the national championship on home ice when the tournament opens tonight at Prospera Place.Only nine host teams have captured the Memorial Cup since the event shifted to its current four-team format in 1983, inclu...
May 22, 2026
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Memorial Cup coaches conference
No fireworks, just quiet confidence
The Memorial Cup has returned to Kelowna for the first time since 2004, and while Thursday's coaches' news conference at Prospera Place offered plenty of storylines, it produced very little in the way of bulletin-board material.The four coaches gathered one day before the opening faceoff of the 2026 Memorial Cup, but i...
May 22, 2026
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RocketFAN
The test begins
Rockets carry 'No Easy Days' mindset into game one
Before they ever drop the puck at the Memorial Cup, one message has followed the Kelowna Rockets everywhere."No Easy Days."It's on the backs of training shirts and visible during warmups outside the dressing room, worn as the group moves through its daily work. It isn't a secret, and it isn't meant to be. In ...
May 20, 2026
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Memorial Cup magic lives again
In old audio from 2004, the Rockets relive a championship night
Twenty-two years later, the voices still sound alive.The noise inside Prospera Place. The disbelief. The laughter. The pride. The relief.In May of 2004, the Kelowna Rockets didn't just win the Memorial Cup. They gave the city one of the defining moments in its sports history.The archived audio, which RocketFAN stumbled...
May 19, 2026
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Family, pressure, championship pursuit
Curtis Hamilton helps shape Rockets for Memorial Cup run
It's hard to avoid the conversation. In many ways, it comes with the territory.Curtis Hamilton is the son of Bruce Hamilton. When your father is one of the most powerful figures in Canadian junior hockey and has owned and operated a WHL franchise for more than 35 years, people are going to notice.But six days before th...
May 17, 2026
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