The countdown to the Kelowna Rockets Memorial Cup-hosting season has begun.
A day after the team announced its preseason schedule, the franchise released the full season timetable on Tuesday morning, May 24.
Kelowna will open the season on Friday, Sept. 19 as they welcome the 2024-25 WHL Western Conference champion Spokane Chiefs to Prospera Place. The following weekend, the league's newest rivalry will ignite as the Rockets will play a home-and-home with the Penticton Vees on Sept. 26 and 27. Friday's game will be Penticton's first home opener as a WHL franchise.
In total, Kelowna and Penticton will face off eight times throughout the regular season, including the final two games of the regular season on Mar. 20 and 21.
Speaking of rivals, the Rockets play against the Kamloops Blazers six times throughout the year, with the first match-up not happening until Jan. 2.
Throughout the season, many Alberta teams will be making the trip to Kelowna, including the Lethbridge Hurricanes, Calgary Hitmen, Edmonton Oil Kings, and Red Deer Rebels, and highlighted by the 2024-25 WHL champion Medicine Hat Tigers on Oct. 25.
In December, the team will travel the cold, winter highways as they embark on a 15-day, seven-game road trip that starts with a stop in Seattle, and the other six games throughout Saskatchewan.
As part of the schedule release, the team had some help from students at Anne McClymont Elementary.
Tickets and season ticket packages are now available on the team's website.
