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Rockets grab win over reigning league champs in first game of road trip

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ beat the Prince Albert Raiders 2-1 Friday night, take on Saskatoon Saturday
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Rockets’ captain Nolan Foote fights for the puck with two Prince Albert players in Friday night’s 2-1 win over the Raiders. (Photo: Lucas Chudleigh/Apollo Multimedia)

The Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Rockets six-game road trip is off to a good start.

In a 2-1 win Friday night, the Rockets pick up two valuable points with the victory over the Prince Albert Raiders, last year’s WHL champions.

It was the first game for the newly-acquired Matthew Wedman who the Rockets traded for just a day before the Western Canada road trip’s beginning. The former Seattle Thunderbirds captain notched an assist on the game-winning goal in his first game with Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

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Dallon Wilton picked up his second goal of the year to open the scoring for the Rockets.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s captain and Team Canada World Junior’s hopeful Nolan Foote notched his 14th goal of the campaign with the game-winning goal in the third period with just under seven minutes remaining.

Roman Basran made 26 saves for the Rockets in the win as the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ point streak extends to seven games.

Wilton, Foote, Basran and the rest of the Rockets’ squad will continue the road trip Saturday night with a match against the Saskatoon Blades.

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