Rockets Double Cougars 4-2

By 250 News

After a solid opening 20 minutes, the Cougars allowed three second period goal en route to a 4-2 loss to the Kelowna Rockets Friday night. 

The Cougars and Rockets were meeting for the fourth time this season and first at CN Centre.  The Cougars were looking to end a two game slide against their BC Division foes and in the first period, the Cougars Captain gave Prince George the lead.  Brett Connolly worked a pretty give and go with James Dobrowolski and redirected the puck past Jordon Cooke for his 16th goal of the season, which came on the power play at 12:58.  Martin Marincin also drew an assist.  The Cougars out-shot the Rockets 11-4 in the opening frame, taking a 1-0 lead to the dressing room.

The Rockets came out strong in the second period, with Cody Chikie scoring at 2:05, then Brett Bulmer put the visitor's ahead at 6:12 for a 2-1 Rockets lead.  The Rockets Geordie Wudrick added a power play goal at 16:18 to put Kelowna up 3-1 after 40 minutes.  The Rockets out-shot Prince George 12-11 in the period.

The Cougars got some timely saves from Ty Rimmer in the third period to keep the score 3-1 and Connolly added his second goal of the night, batting the puck home past Cooke to cut the Rockets lead to 3-2.  Marincin passed to Sena Acolatse at the blue line, ripping a one-time shot wide on the blocker side, but the puck bounced off the end boards over the net, before being struck home by Connolly.  The goal came with Rimmer on the bench, but the Rockets would score an empty net goal, with Bulmer getting his second of the game to round out the scoring on a 4-2 Rockets victory.  The Cougars out-shot Kelowna 14-13 in the third and 36-29 in the game, but fall to 11-10-1-0.  The Rockets improve to 11-11-0-0, just one point back of the Cougars in the BC Division.  The Rockets were 2-for-6 on the power play while the Cougars went 1-for-4.

The Cougars will look to get back in the win column Saturday night when the club's meet again at CN Centre, starting at 7:00pm.  Tickets are available by calling Ticketmaster at 250-564-5585.

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