[Red John]

Kelowna showing they are the best organization in the league again. 10 straight wins to start the season, and frankly they probably should have dropped off from last year a bit.

They lost the best goalie in the country from last years team (Cooke), their two best forwards (Bell and Tvrdon) as graduating 20s, then also lost Ryan Olsen (Jets), Damon Severson (Devils) the latter of whom was their best defenseman and has jumped straight to the NHL.

They won 57 games last year and probably projected to win 45, maybe 50 this year but so far obviously haven't missed a beat. What's also impressive is that their 20s are not a strong group this year. Cole Martin and Tyrell Goulbourne are good character all-round guys but not ringers. Then there's Colton Heffley who probably is a Junior-A calibre player. The expectation is that Heffley will be released once the Rockets complete a trade for another 20. Otherwise the Rigby trade will look real dumb.

Then there's the loss of Ryan Huska who was a top coach.

Point is when you lose that much and are using a 1st-year starting goalie you'd expect a step back but so far that hasn't been the case for the No. 1 ranked team in the country.

Certainly not an invincible team and they aren't blowing games out, but this is what happens when you are the best drafting and developing team in the league and can continue to find young players to plug holes every year.