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CdnSailor
10-22-2011, 10:07 AM
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This is their 3rd game of the season with the Royals winning the first 2.

12 6 6 0 0 = 12 PTS 0-1-0-0 STK 5-5-0-0 P10 253 PIM
Victoria had their butts kicked last night losing to the Giants 8-1 They are currently holding 2nd place.

10 4 5 1 0 = 9 PTS 1-0-0-0 STK 4-5-1-0 P10 196 PIM
Kelowna had the day off yesterday after beating the Giants 6 -3 They are currently in 4th place.

pontcanna
10-22-2011, 10:24 PM
Posted in the wrong place earlier:

We're alive and tied after one. A real game tonight - whew. But what was with that first Rockets goal? Oh well, Hamilton more than made up for it with a lot of fine saves.

pontcanna
10-22-2011, 10:28 PM
Great comeback from last night's debacle. I thought we were in serious trouble with Kelowna's two-man advantage late in the third. Glad the ref had a quick whistle :) This is a big win - we really seem to have the Rockets' number. Who knows what which Royals team will show up in Washington State...winning one goal games and losing huge blowouts will keep our "for and against" stats hard to understand.

CdnSailor
10-22-2011, 11:39 PM
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Video Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPk18yGiXUI

1st Period

Rockets 1st goal by Mitchell Chapman 0:25
Royals 1st goal by Jamie Crooks (PP) 1:02

2nd Period

Fight between Royals Hayden Rintoul and Rockets Filip Vasko 1:45
Royals 2nd goal by Robin Soudek 3:10
Royals 3rd goal by Steven Hodges 3:45
Rockets 2nd goal by Myles Bell (PP) 4:35

3rd Period
Rockets Penalty Shot by Zach Franko 5:15
Rockets near goal 6:25
Another near goal 7:32

Shots on Goal
Victoria 11-5-7-23
Kelowna 11-6-7-24

Attendance


3 Stars
1. VIC - 9 Kevin Sundher
2. KEL - 18 Shane McColgan
3. VIC - 27 Brett Cote

Game Summary
http://www.whl.ca/schedule/show/game/59521

CdnSailor
10-22-2011, 11:56 PM
Victoria battles to 3-2 victory over Kelowna

For Immediate Release

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Kelowna, BC – In a Saturday night showdown at Prospera Place, the Victoria Royals squared off with the Kelowna Rockets in a B.C. Division matchup. The Royals gave Keith Hamilton the nod in net, while the Rockets countered with Adam Brown.

The two teams exchanged chances as they searched for the advantage in the early going. At 9:17, Rockets’ defenseman Mitchell Chapman got the home side on the board when he stepped over the Royals’ blue line and let go an off-speed shot that fooled Hamilton on the glove side to give Kelowna a 1-0 lead on his first goal of the season. Victoria quickly responded on the power play at 10:28. Jamie Crooks, playing the point on the man-advantage, took a cross-ice feed from Hayden Rintoul and wired a wrist shot top shelf over the glove of Brown to make it a 1-1 game. It was the Royals’ forward’s seventh goal of the season. The play would continue to go back and forth for the remainder of the period, with the shots even at 11 after 20 minutes of play.

The second period got off to a spirited start when Rintoul took exception to a hit from behind on the Royals’ Tim Traber by Kelowna’s Filip Vasko and squared off with the Rockets’ forward. The ensuing four-on-four play saw Victoria take the lead at 8:32. Kevin Sundher fed Robin Soudek at the point who quickly let go a slap shot that found its way past Brown to make it 2-1. With the assist, Sundher reached 200 points in his WHL career. The Royals would increase their lead at 19:00 when Logan Nelson wrapped the puck around the Rockets’ goal before it rebounded on to the stick of Steven Hodges. The Royals’ center slid his fourth of the year past the outstretched glove of Brown for a 3-1 lead. Kelowna would respond quickly at 19:37 on the power play when Myles Bell beat Hamilton to make it 3-2 Victoria heading into the third period.

The teams generated good offensive chances to start the final 20 minutes, with both goaltenders called on to make several quality stops. Kelowna had the best opportunity when Zach Franko was rewarded a penalty shot after his stick was tied up on a breakaway chance. The Rockets’ forward came in on Hamilton but lost the handle on a rolling puck before getting a shot off. Victoria weathered a strong push from Kelowna, highlighted by Hamilton stretching his left pad across the crease to rob the Rockets’ Madison Bowey of the game-tying goal with just over five minutes to play. Royals 3 Rockets 2.

Victoria went 1/3=33.33% on the power play, while Kelowna was 1/6=16.67%. The Rockets outshot the Royals 24-23.

pontcanna
10-23-2011, 12:00 AM
Royals bounce back against Rockets

BY MARIO ANNICCHIARICO, TIMES COLONIST OCTOBER 22, 2011 10:27 PM

Victoria Royals general manager and head coach Marc Habscheid demanded a better effort from his young troops on Saturday and got it by way of a 3-2 victory over the Kelowna Rockets at Prospera Place.

It came in the second of a four-game road trip that began with an embarrassing 8-1 loss in Vancouver on Friday, which Habscheid described before hand as the team’s worst effort this season.

“Yeah, a little bit,” Habscheid said of a scolding he handed out. “I think they were listening.”

They responded with just the third win in eight road opportunities for the Royals, who also won a pair from the Rockets in Victoria last weekend.

It was, more importantly, a solid turnaround from the resounding thumping in Vancouver where the Giants were six for nine on the power play the previous night.

“We still weren’t where we need to be, but I’ve learned not to complain about a win,” said Habscheid.

The Royals killed off three third-period power plays on Saturday, including 43 seconds of five-on-three. It also helped that Kelowna’s Zach Franko lost the puck on a penalty shot at 6:34 of the third. The Rockets were one-for-six on the man advantage while the Royals went one-for-three.

“I wasn’t thrilled about any of those [calls], but they were called and we overcame some adversity there,” added Habscheid.

Robin Soudek, at 8:32, and Steven Hodges, at 19:00, gave the Royals a 3-1 lead temporarily in the second period before Myles Bell cut that advantage at 19:37 of the second on a Kelowna power play. Kevin Sundher and Brett Cote each had a pair of assists for Victoria.

The two teams traded goals within a 1:11 span midway through the opening period. Mitchell Chapman opened it up for the Rockets at 9:17 on an unassisted effort before Jamie Crooks replied with his eighth of the season on Victoria’s first power play of the night.

Adam Brown stopped 20 of 23 shots on goal for Kelowna while Victoria’s Keith Hamilton turned away 22. The Royals now head south of the border to meet the Tri-City Americans and Spokane Chiefs on Tuesday and Wednesday before returning home for a double-header with the Seattle Thunderbirds on Friday and Saturday.