Young Blazers experience ‘wake-up call’ in two losses to Kelowna
KAMLOOPS — It wasn’t the showing the Blazers nor their fans were hoping for on opening weekend, outscored 11-3 and dominated by Kelowna rivals.
“We weren’t very good,” said head coach Don Hay on the two-game series. “We didn’t do a good job checking. We have to be better checking. So this week we’ll really focus on that. I thought we were good enough in exhibition, but once it went up in the regular season we weren’t good enough.”
It took only 3:25 into the season on Friday for the Rockets to score, and the goals kept coming, including four in the third period to build Kelowna a 6-0. The Blazers didn’t score their first goals of the year until the third period.