Rockets a perfect 10

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Andrew Cristall, Colton Dach, playing in his 150th career games, and Marcus Pacheco each had 2+2=4 in the team’s seventh win of the season.

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It was Pacheco’s first-two goal game of his career.

Adam Kydd had a goal and an assist, reaching the 100-point mark for his WHL career.

The last time the Rockets put up 10 goals on home ice was in a 10-1 victory on February 22, 2017 over the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings.

While coming out of the gates sleepy, you could sense the Rockets were the superior team. The Chiefs are in a full-on rebuild mode by trading away veteran goalie Mason Beaupit and d-man Graham Sward to the Winnipeg Ice.

It was a mess in the Chiefs zone and neither 17-year-old goalies Cooper Michaluk nor Dawson Cowan receiving much in the way of support.

The Rockets were able to feast on rebounds, hanging around the net for second and third whacks at the puck before pushing it over the goal-line.

As bad as the Chiefs looked last night, or how dynamic the Rockets were in the offensive zone, let’s applaud the management in Spokane for doing the right thing and taking the high road. They want to build around 16-year-old forward Berkly Catton, the first player taken in the 2021 WHL Prospects Draft, so why not add draft picks, not veteran players when teams like Seattle, Portland and Kamloops, who will host the 2023 Memorial Cup. will only add, not subtract from the roster.

This is the season to remain competitive, but if you want to pick a year to wave the white flag in surrender, this is it.

Give GM Matt Bardsley credit for doing what’s right, not for his job, but for the organization. It takes balls to step back and make moves that will benefit the team down the road.

While Rockets head coach Kris Mallette will walk away from the arena concerned about his teams lack of discipline and possibly indifferent play at various times during the game, sometimes in a blowout, you have to take the good with the bad.

When the game gets out of reach, and you can almost score at will, the urgency or focus on the fine details of the game are lost.

A much better effort will be needed this evening though, at both ends of the ice, if the Rockets hope to make it four straight wins on home ice with a more complete team in the Tri City Americans coming to town.

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