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Overtime win caps successful road trip for Kelowna Rockets

The Rockets finished a five-game eastern road swing with four wins and one loss
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The Kelowna Rockets celebrate an overtime win against the Saskatoon Blades on Dec. 16, 2023. (WHL)

The Kelowna Rockets wrapped up an overtime win against the Saskatoon Blades and a five-game eastern road on Dec. 16, as they head into the WHL Christmas break.

SaskatoonÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Ego Sidorov opened the scoring at 7:17 of the first period, however, the Rockets stormed back with three unanswered goals in just under six minutes.

Luke Schelter scored at 10:39 with assists going to Andrew Cristall and John Babcock. Caden Price made it 2-1 just one minute later assisted by Hiroki Gosjic and Marek Rocak.

With the Rockets short-handed, Ti Iginla increased the lead by two at the 16:16 mark, with assists to Cristall and Price.

The Blades would get one back at 19:57, SidorovÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s second of the game on the power play, to end the first period.

Saskatoon would tie the game 3-3 at 14:05 of the second on a goal by Bradon Lisowsky and then took the lead at 15:39 of the third period as Tyler Parr found the back of the back with the Blades short-handed.

With 18 seconds left in the period, KelownaÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Marek Rocak made it 4-4 with Crystal and Gojsic assisting.

The RocketsÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ Gabriel Szturc scored the winner 1:18 into overtime, with assists going to Rocak and Iginla, for the 5-4 win.

Saskatoon had six power play opportunities to the Rockets one.

Kelowna finished their eastern road swing with four wins and one loss and sit seventh in the Western Conference at 15-15-2-0 with 32 points.

The RocketsÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ next game is Dec. 27 against the Blazers in Kamloops.

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