For the first time in almost a month, the Kamloops Blazers have won a hockey game without requiring extra time.

Forwards Tyler Shattock and Jimmy Bubnick each scored twice in a 5-3 home-ice victory over their B.C. Division rival, the Kelowna Rockets.

"It's always good to win in regulation," Shattock said after the game — the Blazers' first regulation win since a 6-1 victory over the Prince George Cougars on Oct. 9.

"But it's definitely nice to beat these guys in regulation, especially a division opponent."

Interim head coach Scott Ferguson said he was impressed by his team's effort against Kelowna — the club's second straight win after losing seven in a row.

"I'm really proud of these guys for what they put in. . . . It's only two games, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but these guys are the guys that did the work," he said, crediting goaltender Justin Leclerc for his play between the pipes.

"Justin played good tonight. He made the saves when we needed him."

Leclerc, who stopped 39 of the 42 shots he faced, said the Blue and Orange finally started to catch a few breaks after a tough dozen-or-so games.

"They got a lot of shots on the power play, but it seemed like we were getting the bounces tonight instead of the puck always finding their tape," he said.

"We played a great game. I think we deserved to win."

The Blazers had 25 shots on net.

Dylan Willick opened the scoring for Kamloops just over two minutes into the first period, redirecting a Giffen Nyren point shot for his sixth goal of the year.

The score stayed 1-0 until just past the half-way mark of the first, when Kelowna's Cody Chikie took a Blazers' neutral-zone turnover and turned it into a breakaway, beating Leclerc high stick-side.

Nyren got his second assist of the night just over four minutes into the second frame, when Bubnick beat Kelowna goalie Adam Brown for his fifth of the year.

Shortly after the midway mark of the second, following a questionable elbowing call that landed Kamloops' Zak Stebner in the penalty box, Kyle St. Denis lit the lamp for Kelowna, tying the game 2-2.

The Rockets almost took the lead a minute later, when the puck hopped over the stick of Blazers blue-liner Josh Caron and sent Kelowna's Mitchell Callahan in on a breakaway.

Leclerc made a great save to keep it knotted at two.

Spark plug centre Colin Smith, playing his second game for the Blazers after returning from injury, set up Shattock in the final minutes of the second period, making a nifty deke in front of the Kelowna net before sliding the puck through the crease and onto Shattock's stick.

The score remained 3-2 until early in the third, when Shattock scored his second of the night — a one-timer frozen rope on the power play from Bronson Maschmeyer and C.J. Stretch to make it 4-2 for Kamloops.

Kelowna's Brandon McMillan netted a short-handed marker exactly 60 seconds later, putting the Rockets back to within one goal.

But an empty-netter by Bubnick with 27 seconds left sealed it for the Blazers in front of 4,648 fans at Interior Savings Centre.

The Blue and Orange, who knocked off the Edmonton Oil Kings 6-5 in overtime on Friday night, are back on the ice on Tuesday, when the Red Deer Rebels visit ISC.

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