Coupland scores four, Rebels blast Rockets 10-2
On Brandon Hagel Bobblehead Night, they guy currently wearing his #22 paid fitting tribute to the former Rebels star.
Ty Coupland scored four times, becoming the first Rebels player since Hagel to do so, in a commanding 10-2 Rebels win over the Kelowna Rockets Saturday night at the Centrium.
Jhett Larson, Kalan Lind, Talon Brigley, Luke Vlooswyk, Samuel Drancak and Doogan Pederson.
Saturday night was the only match-up between the Rebels and Rockets in the 24-25 season.
STATS STORY
Ty Coupland (RD) – 4 goals, 1 assist
Luke Vlooswyk (RD) – 1 goal, 2 assists
Beckett Hamilton (RD) – 3 assists
Ollie Josephson (RD) – 3 assists
HOW IT HAPPENED
Kelowna opened the scoring when Will Sharpe blasted a one-timer that was tipped by Dawson Gerwing past Rebels’ netminder Peyton Shore with 12:14 left in the first period.
From there, the Rebels took over. With the powerplay clicking, they scored on five of nine opportunities on their way to scoring 10-straight goals.
Coupland’s career night began with back-to-back powerplay goals one minute and 28 seconds apart. Beckett Hamilton found Coupland stationed on the blue line, where number 22 released a wrister that eluded traffic to beat former Rebels goalie Rhett Stoesser.
Clean. #RDREBELS | #WHL pic.twitter.com/ia2Oc1H29s
— Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) March 2, 2025
On the next powerplay, Hamilton fed Coupland a cross-ice pass to the bottom of the left circle, where Coupland starred down a wide open net for a 2-1 lead.
TY COUPLAND 🔙✌️🔙 🎯!#RDREBELS | #WHL pic.twitter.com/0ih1GkXPxZ
— Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) March 2, 2025
The Rebels never looked back as Derek Thurston connected with Jhett Larson on a powerplay to extend the lead with 2:59 to go in the first period.
Coupland completed his hat trick with another power play snipe from the left circle early in period two.
Cue the hats! 🎩🎩🎩#RDREBELS | #WHL pic.twitter.com/QoU2nUukgf
— Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) March 2, 2025
Kalan Lind made it 5-1 when he slid the puck into an near-empty net after a brilliant setup from Samuel Drancak and Coupland.
Talon Brigley buried a rebound off the end boards to make it a 6-1 game and force Stoesser from the game.
Luke Vlooswyk was the first to put one by Rockets’ reliever Jake Pilon with a wrist shot from the point on yet another Rebels powerplay.
Fist pump worthy! 💪 🔥#RDREBELS | #WHL pic.twitter.com/5LCFCeUfMH
— Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) March 2, 2025
Coupland wasn’t done yet. Breaking out of the Rebels zone, he caught a Lind pass to rush the net, sliding the puck between Pilon’s legs to record his fourth goal and fifth point of the night just over six minutes into period three.
All the kids are going home to tape their stick just like Coupland. 🏒#RDREBELS | #WHL pic.twitter.com/F3zkagUzJG
— Red Deer Rebels (@Rebelshockey) March 2, 2025
Drancak lit the lamp with a bounce off of a Rockets defender, and Doogan Pederson jumped into the action with Red Deer’s 10th goal and his first with the Rebels.
Kelowna closed out the scoring with a power play goal from Andrew Petruck.
Red Deer outshot Kelowna by a whopping 56-26 margin and was 5-for-9 on the power play while the Rockets were 2-for-4.
THREE STARS
1. Coupland (RD)
2. Hamilton (RD)
3. Josephson (RD)
WHAT THEY SAID
Rebels head coach Dave Struch…
Ty Coupland…
NOTES
Out of the line-up for the Rebels were Jaxon Fuder (upper), Parker MacDougall, Nishaan Parmar, Dmitri Toporowski and Jack Bousquet … 14 of 18 players recorded a point against the Rockets … Thurston has points in five of his last seven games … Vlooswyk has points in four of five games … Hagel’s last four-goal game for Red Deer came October 19, 2018 at Edmonton … Red Deer scored 10 or more goals for the first time since they netted 11 at Moose Jaw on March 1, 2022 … Hamilton was honoured before the game as the Mitchell and Jewel Rebels Player of the Month for February … Attendance for the game was 5,145.
NEXT UP
The Rebels continue their home stand against the Brandon Wheat Kings at 7 P.M. on Tuesday, March 4 at the Centrium (TICKETS).
