PHOTO CREDIT STEVE DUSNMOOR
The Kelowna Rockets will kick off their three-game Central Division road trip on Wednesday night against the Swift Current Broncos - puck drop is set for 5:00 pm pacific time.
This will be the only time that the Rockets visit the province of Saskatchewan this season, Swift Current is the only Saskatchewan-based team that plays in the Central Division. All of the Eastern Division teams made the trip to Kelowna this season.
The Rockets last played the Broncos on October 16, 2019, where Kelowna downed them 3-2 in overtime at Prospera Place.
Kelowna will be looking to snap a two-game losing streak. They were last in action on Saturday in Langley, where they fell 3-2 to the Vancouver Giants in overtime. While on the power play in overtime a pair of Rockets collided, two Giants players took the puck up the ice on an odd-man rush with Brenden Pentecost beating Rockets starter Jari Kykkanen. Carson Golder and Max Graham were the goal scorers, while Kykkanen stopped 28 of the 31 shots he faced.
The Broncos have dropped their last four games. They also last played on Saturday, where they fell 4-3 to the Lethbridge Hurricanes in a shootout at home.
The Rockets will be without captain Colton Dach, forwards Adam Kydd, Gabriel Szturc and defenceman Jackson Romeril this week.
Dach was named to Hockey Canada's World Junior team on Monday. Szturc has left for Czechia's World Junior camp.
Kydd remains sidelined with a lower-body injury. Romeril underwent a tonsillectomy last week, he will miss the next two weeks.
Click here to view the Rockets Injury Report.
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