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Rockets shoot themselves in the foot
The Hockey Gods can be cruel sometimes. Right now, they are not shining favorably on the Kelowna Rockets. Just when you think things are about to turn for the better, they get worse. Twice in Saturday...
Dec 11, 2022 Photo credit: RocketFAN
One-goal losses adding up
A sluggish team effort spoiled a night Kelowna Rockets rookie forward Logan Peskett won't soon forget. The 16-year-old scored his first career WHL goal, the Teddy Bear Toss goal, in a 3-2 setback Frid...
Dec 10, 2022 Photo credit: Steve Dunsmoor
A letter from Lou
He was known as a control freak. It was his way or the highway. In his first few years in the NHL, not much happened on the ice, or off it, without Lou Lamoriello knowing. A case in point is the lette...
Dec 07, 2022
Dipping toe into WHL waters
Grady Lenton is the first to admit he wears a Speedo. Wait! What? No, the Kelowna Rockets rookie forward won't be confidently walking the beaches wearing one while attempting to cool off this summer i...
Dec 06, 2022 Photo credit: Steve Dunsmoor
Going with your gut
There are times Kris Mallette must feel like he is getting an ulcer. It comes with the territory of being a head coach in the Western Hockey League. Confidence in your abilities as a communicator, and...
Dec 05, 2022 Photo credit: Everett Silvertips
Boyko's return railroaded
It was a chance for goaltender Talyn Boyko to make a triumphant return to where his junior hockey career began. The 20-year-old, facing his old team for the first time since being traded in November o...
Dec 04, 2022 Photo credit: John Keller
Riding the bus: a junior hockey players right of passage to the pro's
Here I am, the team broadcaster, sitting on the Kelowna Rockets bus, traveling along Highway 33 toward Spokane, Washington. It is the beginning of three games in three nights, starting tonight against...
Dec 02, 2022 Photo credit: RocketFAN
Getting older with Golder
You can't blame newly acquired 20-year-old forward Carson Golder if he was a little apprehensive about making his Kelowna Rockets debut Tuesday night against the Regina Pats. It had nothing to do with...
Dec 01, 2022 Photo credit: Steve Dunsmoor
Cristall doesn't play second fiddle to NHL draft phenom
While consensus first-overall pick Connor Bedard's stock likely didn't fall with a quiet performance last night at Prospera Place, another draft-eligible player may have seen his stock rise - signific...
Nov 30, 2022 Photo credit: Steve Dunsmoor
Rockets GM chimes in on trade/Bedard appearance
Not since Leon Draisaitl in 2015 with the Kelowna Rockets, have hockey fans in the Okanagan witnessed a gifted forward at Prospera Place. Connor Bedard, the projected first player selected in the NHL ...
Nov 29, 2022 Photo credit: RocketFAN