67's verses Rockets

[Jovorock]

How does the Rockets and 67's match up, who will take the game Sunday?

How does the goalies match up Westblom and Battochio.

Here is a good link for the Memorial Cup.

http://www.londonknights.com/memorial/memorial_cup.asp
http://www.londonknights.com/memoria....asp?team_id=3 is the link to the 67's

Name GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG PPG PIMPG
25 Mark Mancari 21 14 10 24 11 24 4 1 1.14 1.14
9 Chris Hulit 21 11 10 21 5 12 2 3 1.00 0.57
27 Julian Talbot 21 8 12 20 0 31 2 0 0.95 1.48
* 83 Lukas Kaspar 21 6 14 20 -2 8 0 0 0.95 0.38
6 Brad Staubitz 21 4 16 20 14 70 3 0 0.95 3.33
* 19 Jakub Petruzalek 21 8 10 18 -2 30 2 0 0.86 1.43
28 Brad Bonello 21 8 9 17 10 50 3 1 0.81 2.38
17 Bryan Bickell 21 5 12 17 3 32 2 0 0.81 1.52
24 Jeremy Akeson 21 5 8 13 2 18 0 0 0.62 0.86
* 88 Jamie McGinn 18 4 7 11 3 0 2 0 0.61 0.00
4 Will Colbert 21 3 8 11 -1 8 2 0 0.52 0.38
85 Elgin Reid 15 0 6 6 7 27 0 0 0.40 1.80
3 Nick Van Herpt 21 0 6 6 3 31 0 0 0.29 1.48
* 77 Derek Joslin 21 0 3 3 -3 24 0 0 0.14 1.14
* 71 Arron Alphonso 20 1 1 2 1 20 0 0 0.10 1.00
44 Jamie VanderVeeken 19 0 2 2 -4 15 0 0 0.11 0.79
22 Robbie Lawrance 13 1 0 1 0 7 0 0 0.08 0.54
2 Brodie Beard 18 0 1 1 1 10 0 0 0.06 0.56
* 21 Pat Ouellette 21 0 1 1 0 8 0 0 0.05 0.38

Name GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG PPG PIMPG
19 Justin Keller 23 12 10 22 10 44 7 0 0.96 1.91
8 Tyler Mosienko 24 5 14 19 5 20 1 0 0.79 0.83
14 Blake Comeau 24 6 12 18 5 34 2 0 0.75 1.42
15 Tyler Spurgeon 24 11 6 17 -1 12 3 1 0.71 0.50
2 Shea Weber 18 9 8 17 7 25 3 1 0.94 1.39
29 Troy Bodie 24 4 13 17 1 26 3 0 0.71 1.08
9 Chris Ray 24 6 9 15 13 10 0 0 0.62 0.42
* 10 Lauris Darzins 24 7 7 14 10 10 2 0 0.58 0.42
17 Brent Howarth 24 4 9 13 11 34 1 0 0.54 1.42
28 Kyle Cumiskey 24 0 13 13 3 12 0 0 0.54 0.50
27 Brett Palin 24 4 6 10 8 52 1 0 0.42 2.17
4 Mike Card 24 2 5 7 6 38 1 0 0.29 1.58
* 18 Clayton Bauer 24 2 2 4 6 4 0 0 0.17 0.17
3 Darren Deschamps 24 1 3 4 11 16 0 0 0.17 0.67
25 Liam Couture 23 0 3 3 6 8 0 0 0.13 0.35
* 24 Troy Ofukany 24 0 3 3 2 32 0 0 0.12 1.33
20 Gary Sylvester 16 1 0 1 2 10 0 0 0.06 0.62
21 Michal Blanar 22 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.05 0.00
31 Derek Yeomans 20 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0.05 0.10
6 Kevin Reinholt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
* 1 Brian Kaval 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
* 12 Kirt Hill 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
* 30 Kristofer Westblom 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
* 16 Craig Cuthbert 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
* 7 Colin Joe 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00

Name GPI MINS GA SO Avg W L T SA SVS SV%

1 Matthew Spezza 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Anthony Guadagnolo 1 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 1.000
3 Danny Battochio 21 1277 66 1 3.1 13 8 0 836 770 0.921
Name GPI MINS GA SO Avg W L T SA SVS SV%

1 Brian Kaval 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Derek Yeomans 20 1252 38 4 1.82 13 7 0 539 501 0.929
3 Kristofer Westblom 4 251 8 0 1.91 3 1 0 117 109 0.932

[Chipper]

I think that the physical and defensive stile of game the Rockets Play is going to shock the other teams and even catch them off guard. There is no team that has more comitment to there system and I just don't see a whole lot of respect given to them in this apperance. It just seems to me that the only thing people out east are looking at is the Sydney Crosby and London Knights story. There will be a lot of people watching the Rockets play with there mouths wide open thinking where did these guys come from. By then it will be to late as the Rockets will have already drank from the cup.

[IamBatman]

I think that the physical and defensive stile of game the Rockets Play is going to shock the other teams and even catch them off guard. There is no team that has more comitment to there system and I just don't see a whole lot of respect given to them in this apperance. It just seems to me that the only thing people out east are looking at is the Sydney Crosby and London Knights story. There will be a lot of people watching the Rockets play with there mouths wide open thinking where did these guys come from. By then it will be to late as the Rockets will have already drank from the cup.

Good points made. I am looking forward to seeing if London had such a great season because 1) They are a great team or 2) They are a good team playing in a weak league. Only time will tell I guess.

Kelowna 3 - Ottawa 1

[mccabe23]

I see one of the goalies for Ottawa goes by the name of Matthew Spezza. Any relation to Jason Spezza?

[Jovorock]

Not a very big defense, one guy over 200lbs, will they be able to stop the Rockets crashing the net?

# Player Position Ht Wt
2 Beard Brodie Defenceman 6.01 190
3 Van Herpt Nick Defenceman 6.00 185
4 Colbert Will Defenceman 6.02 190
5 Jarram David Defenceman 6.03 195
6 Staubitz Brad Defenceman 6.01 208
22 Lawrance Robbie Defenceman 6.01 180
77 Joslin Derek Defenceman 6.01 175
85 Reid Elgin Defenceman 6.00 180

Number 10 player McGinn in scoring has 11 points for the 67's, Cumisky is the Rockets number 10 player has 13, alittle more balance scoring.

[Scout]

Besides a few offensive weapons, The 67's have one of the best goalies in the C.H.L. This kid can stand on his head. Has very few rebounds and directs the puck very well.

Scout

[Scout]

Matt is the younger brother of Jason.

Scout

[thomasincanada]

There will be a lot of people watching the Rockets play with there mouths wide open thinking where did these guys come from. By then it will be to late as the Rockets will have already drank from the cup.

There are a lot of people out east who don't realize how good Kelowna is for sure and will be in for a surprise. On the other hand, there are also people from out West who are apparently naive enough to think the Rockets just have to show up to win this thing because they won *last year*. After all, the west is so absolutely fantastic and deep it's best team can't possibly lose to anybody from the east where defense isn't played.

Kelowna may win, they are quite the strong team, but they're gonna be playing *much* better teams then they met in last years memorial cup.

Tom

[tazndevil]

As I was looking through the Ottawa roster, I couldn't help but notice their 3 goalies.

Battochio-- Born in 1985.

Guadagnolo-- Born in 1986.

Spezza-- Born in 1986.

They are carrying a 20 yr old starter with 2 19 year old back ups?

Am I missing something?

When is the last time a team carried 3 goalies that were that old?

Can anyone think of any teams that did this?

Taz

[thomasincanada]

Besides a few offensive weapons, The 67's have one of the best goalies in the C.H.L. This kid can stand on his head. Has very few rebounds and directs the puck very well.

Scout

He hasn't been the same since the knights made him take off his cheater blade - not sure if he just lost confidence or what.

Ottawa's big weakness is their inexperienced D - if Kelowna is able to take advantage of that they'll win the game.

Tom