Built for today and Kelowna’s future
New dressing rooms ready for Memorial Cup
When the 2026 Memorial Cup opens next Friday at Prospera Place, fans will be focused on the host Kelowna Rockets and the Ontario Hockey League champions Kitchener Rangers battling on the ice.But outside the arena, another important part of the tournament is already making an impact.Three new portable dressing room unit...
May 13, 2026
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One month later, forward returns to the
'I'm just thankful it wasn't career ending' - Ty Halaburda
For a few terrifying moments on April 11th in Everett, hockey didn't matter. Not the score. Not the series. Not even the season. All eyes inside Angel of the Winds Arena were fixed on Ty Halaburda. The Kelowna Rockets forward had just taken a hit from Everett Silvertips forward Jaxin Vaughan during Game 2 of a second-r...
May 11, 2026
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Inside the Rockets draft room
Why Kelowna never traded the #1 pick
The Kelowna Rockets walked into the 2026 WHL Prospects Draft with something most teams picking first overall never have - momentum.They weren't rebuilding from rock bottom. They weren't trying to sell hope to a frustrated fan base. Instead, the Rockets came off a season where expectations climbed quickly, the Memorial ...
May 08, 2026
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Madden Daneault is heading to Kelowna
Rockets land record-setting forward
For Madden Daneault, Wednesday felt like a blur.The newest member of the Kelowna Rockets flew home from a tournament in Philadelphia, celebrated with family and friends at his cousin's acreage in Red Deer, heard his name called first overall in the WHL Prospects Draft that evening, and turns 15 today."It's been an...
May 07, 2026
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New era begins
Rockets select Madden Daneault first overall
The Kelowna Rockets made history Wednesday, selecting forward Madden Daneault first overall in the WHL Prospects Draft - the first time the organization has owned the top pick in 35 years.The Rockets, who were rumoured leading up to the draft to be exploring trade possibilities involving the coveted selection, stayed t...
May 07, 2026
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Holding the key to the first-overall pick
Rockets searching for their next game-breaker
The Kelowna Rockets don't just need a good player. They need a difference-maker.Someone who walks in and changes the temperature of the room.They'll be young. There will be mistakes. But this has to be a player you grow through selection, not one you rent via trade.Every prospect has flaws. That's part of it. You live ...
May 06, 2026
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Less than three weeks before showtime
Rockets prepare for Memorial Cup their own way
There is no template. It isn't uncharted territory, but it's odd all the same.And inside Prospera Place, the Kelowna Rockets are trying to make it work.The calendar says May 22nd, opening night of the Memorial Cup, but the path to get there looks nothing like a playoff run.There are no games. Only practices and off-ice...
May 04, 2026
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From underdogs to unbreakable
Kelly Guard's Memorial Cup legacy
There are moments in hockey that fade with time.And then there are the ones that don't.For the Kelowna Rockets, the spring of 2004 remains frozen in place, a championship run defined not by flash but by discipline, belief, and a goaltender who turned pressure into silence.Kelly Guard wasn't supposed to dominate that to...
May 01, 2026
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Part 3 of 3 with Bruce Hamilton
Loyalty, change, and the fight for the future
It's a strange place to exist in hockey. Your season is over. Except it isn't. There are still games ahead. But the edge that defined everything for six months - the urgency, the fight to stay alive in a playoff series - is suddenly gone. Or at least, it's supposed to be. For the Kelowna Rockets, that's the reality. El...
Apr 29, 2026
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Part 2 of 3 with Bruce Hamilton
Habits and the cost of not adjusting
In Part 1 of our conversation with Kelowna Rockets general manager Bruce Hamilton, we discussed what happened in a five-game series loss to the Everett Silvertips. Part 2 is about why it happened. For Bruce Hamilton, the conversation doesn't move far from one area. Habits. Not structure. Not talent. Habits. And in his ...
Apr 27, 2026
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'We Were Closer Than It Looked': Inside Bruce Hamilton's Playoff Autopsy
The Kelowna Rockets' playoff run is over.The second-round series with the Everett Silvertips wrapped up a week ago, but it still feels fresh.No more bus rides into hostile rinks. No more quick turnarounds between games. That part of the season is done.The next game they play will be at the Memorial Cup on May 22nd agai...
Apr 24, 2026
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A father’s fear, community response to Ty Halaburda’s injury
'People Are Genuinely Good' - Todd Halaburda
It is a game the Halaburda family will not soon forget.Saturday, April 11th, began like so many others. Todd Halaburda and his wife, Tina, were at home in Victoria, watching the webcast as their son, Ty, a 20-year-old forward with the Kelowna Rockets, played Game 2 of a second-round playoff series against the Everett S...
Apr 22, 2026
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