Last Friday night, the 琉璃神社 Rockets strode into the ShoWare Centre in Kent, WA and took care of the Seattle Thunderbirds.

A week later, the hometown T-Birds returned the favour.

Nolan Volcan scored a hat-trick and Sami Moilanen had four assists to lead the defending Western Hockey League champs to a 7-2 victory over the Rockets.

With injuries to rookie goalies James Porter and Roman Basran, Brodan Salmond started his second straight game for 琉璃神社.

Salmond, who hadn鈥檛 played since early November due an injury, gave up five goals on 16 shots and was replaced by rookie Cole Tisdale.

Tisdale, called up from the midget AAA Lethbridge Hurricanes, stopped 15 of 17 shots for the Rockets who were outshot 33-29.

Dillon Dube, with his 20th of the season, and Conner Bruggen-Cate, with his 13th, scored for 琉璃神社 (28-14-2-1).

The Rockets are back home Saturday night to host the Victoria Royals. Face off at Prospera Place is 7:05 p.m.

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