A visiting team has to win some time

• Why not tonight? The home team has won every game in this series with the Rockets being forced to win on the road to advance to the next round. While this series is tied at two wins apiece, the Tips are still driving the bus. They don't need to win on the road as long as they run the table at home. The Rockets - as the lesser seed - don't have that luxury.
• A light skate this morning for both teams prior to game five. The Rockets had a small group on the ice this morning at Comcast Arena. You don't see players like Tyson Barrie on the ice considering he logs enough ice time for two players.
• The Tips had a full compliment of players on the ice this morning, including injured defenceman Radko Gudas. Gudas was skating, but it appeared he wasn't going full out when shooting the puck. Gudas is out with a shoulder injury...I mean upper body injury.
• I spoke to Clayton Cumiskey this morning. The Everett Silvertips forward is the younger brother of former Kelowna Rockets defenceman Kyle Cumiskey. The interview will air tonight on AM 1150, but I will post it here for Tips fans that may be interested. (You can listen to it below).
• Cumiskey told me he played minor hockey with Rockets forward Geordie Wudrick. The two played hockey together in Abbotsford.
• I received a call this morning from Medicine Hat Tigers play-by-play man Bob Ridley. Ridley is hanging out in Cranbrook as the Ice and Tigers prepare for game five of their series tonight. That series is also tied at two wins apiece. Ridley, the elder statesman of the WHL broadcaster group, does not shy away from technology. He may be in Cranbrook, but he has the equipment that enables him to conduct a phone interview with me from his hotel room. 'Old school' he is not.
• I conducted an interview with Rockets defenceman Tyson Barrie this morning. That interview should be available on Jon Keen's WHL This Week, which can be accessed on the WHL website later today.
• I understand about two thousand tickets are still available for tomorrow night's game in Kelowna. You want to see some terrific hockey? Pick up a pair of tickets. Game time tomorrow is 7 o'clock.