After finishing first in their division the Kelowna Rockets have home ice advantage in the first round of the WHL playoffs starting Thursday.
But the Tri-City Americans come into Prospera Place healthy and hot, having won seven of their last ten games down the stretch.
Rockets GM Bruce Hamilton isn’t taking the seventh place Americans lightly. “I think it will be a real hard fought battle,” Hamilton said.
The two teams split the season series, all eight games won by only one goal.
With the two teams so evenly matched, expect the series to go deep, six, maybe even the full seven games.