After a wild game on Friday night against the Manitoba Moose that saw the Rocket fall in overtime, the team headed into Ontario for just their second meeting with the Toronto Marlies this year. There were two changes for J.-F. Houle’s side with John Parker-Jones joining the fourth line for Pierrick Dubé, and Kevin Poulin getting the start over Cayden Primeau.
The Rocket arguably had the better looks in the opening minutes, with the fourth-line group hemming the Marlies in deep and both Nate Schnarr and Parker-Jones getting looks in front of Joseph Woll. The Marlies, however, took advantage of the Rocket momentarily falling asleep to open the scoring.