Kamloops Blazers and Kelowna Rockets face-off in tiebreaker

KAMLOOPS – The Kelowna Rockets and the Kamloops Blazers will meet tomorrow night in Kamloops to determine the last playoff spot in the Western Hockey Leauge's B.C. Division.

The Rockets and the Blazers are tied for the final spot in the division and face-off tomorrow, March 19, at 7 p.m. in Kamloops at the Sandman Centre.

The winner of tomorrow night's tiebreaker will face the Victoria Royals in the best-of-seven, first-round WHL playoff series.

The two teams finished the 2019 regular season with records of 28-32-6-2, and tied for the third and final playoff spot in the division.

Tickets for tomorrow night's game are availabe at the Blazers Box Office or online at Ticketmaster here.

WHL fans can watch the tiebreaker game for free on WHL Live here as a special offering before the playoffs get underway. The league is selling WHL Live playoff packages as well.


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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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