The Story of the Rockets
1(ooflnhed from pilgc S} 1 I ,.!10, Comb,netl, lhe billet rivals drew a whopping I 0&,083 rans ior I 0 games m 1he Donie nnd the Se.11llc Coliseum, an average 01 10,608 per !lame . Both marks werr all-If me WHL nnd CHL reccords.. On the Ice, the Rockets have a nucleus oi 1>laycrs involvt.-d wilh NHL club�. Three Rockets were selec1ed In lhis year', NHL drart, speedy winger John Varga being claimed by 1heWash ing1on Capllals; defen,em,m Michal Sykora being picked by the San Jose Shark,, and blu�I mer Tuomas Grunman iioing 10 the Quebec Nordiques. The latter has elected 10 plav in his native Finland this season, hut 1heRoek cts have rt!placed hin, with rormer So viet Elite Leagu'-' <t.mrk,ul Al,..xander /\lcxcev, a Ukrainian who has �!ready been drarted b1 the Winnipei; Jets..
Expanding the NHL connec1,011s on the club, centers lam,e Black and Allan Egeland were both 1nv11ed 10 NHL camps 1h1s fall, Black going 10 l'ills huri:h and E gc-land to the Hartford Whalers. Newcomers to the Tacoma roMer this season will be led by an ou1S1and lng young defenseman, Adam Smith, who played Tier II hockey last year with the Kelowna Spartans of the Brit ish Columbia Junior League. With the g,11dance of head coach Marcel Comeau and assistant coach Donn Clark, 1hc Rockets will look 10 a blend oi,cternns and rookies to carry 1he club's 1or1uneson theice.1fthe1 .1re successr11I. more than attendance record� will fall whim the learn 51agcs its encore cam1 >aign.
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