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CdnSailor
12-03-2011, 03:25 PM
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After a dismall month of November, the Royals have come out fighting.
They edged the Rockets 2-1 in Kelowna on Friday night, snapping a six-game losing skid, and currently sit in third place in the B.C. Division. Soudek scored both goals in Friday’s win in Kelowna

Matt Needham and the Kamloops Blazers (19-7-1-0) host Robin Soudek and the Victoria Royals (12-15-1-1) for the fourth meeting over the last eight days between the teams, with the Blazers winning all three.

Blazers currently sit in first place in the BC Division and are on a 5 game winning streak.

Kamloops Blazers 27 19 7 1 0 = 39 PTS 5-0-0-0 STK 7-2-1-0 P10 448 PIM

Victoria Royals 29 12 15 1 1 = 26 PTS 1-0-1-0 STK 2-7-1-0 P10 542 PIM

CdnSailor
12-04-2011, 12:56 AM
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Game Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33ybPz1UEY

1st Period
Blazers 1st goal by Dylan Willick (PP)
Blazers 2nd goal by JC Lipon

2nd Period
Royals 1st goal by Zane Jones
Royals 2nd goal by Ben Walker

3rd Period
Blazers 3rd goal by Ryan Hanes
Blazers 4th goal by Matt Needham

Attendance: 3972

SCORING 1 2 3 Total
Victoria Royals 0 2 0 2
Kamloops Blazers 2 0 2 4

SHOTS 1 2 3 Total
Victoria Royals 11 11 9 31
Kamloops Blazers 8 8 13 29



3 Stars
1. KAM - 38 Cole Cheveldave
2. VIC - 18 Brandon Magee
3. KAM - 14 Matt Needham


Game Summary
http://www.whl.ca/schedule/show/game/59703

CdnSailor
12-04-2011, 01:00 AM
Ben Walker scores first WHL goal in Victoria’s 4-2 loss to Kamloops.

For Immediate Release

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Kamloops, BC – In a Saturday night matchup at the Interior Savings Centre the Victoria Royals took on the Kamloops Blazers in the fifth meeting between the B.C. Division rivals this season. The Royals gave Keith Hamilton the start in goal, while the Blazers went with Cole Cheveldave.

The game started with the majority of the play controlled by the Royals, but a penalty five minutes in gave the Blazers an opportunity to open the scoring. With the man-advantage just about to expire, Kamloops converted their first when Dylan Willick snapped a shot from the slot through the legs of Hamilton at 6:03. The Blazers added their second of the night 13 seconds later when Colin Smith fed JC Lipon at the right post who backhanded the puck into the net. Just prior to the 15 minute mark Victoria received a penalty shot after Blazers’ defenseman Tyler Bell covered the puck in the crease. Royals’ forward Robin Soudek looked to deke to his forehand, but Cheveldave slid across to make the left pad save. Victoria trailed 2-0 after one period despite outshooting Kamloops 11-8.

Victoria started the middle frame with an early man-advantage as they looked to cut into the Blazers’ lead. On the power play, Hayden Rintoul threw a puck on net that sat loose in the crease. Kevin Sundher looked to poke the puck in, but Cheveldave reached across with his glove to rob the Royals’ leading scorer. Victoria would put their first goal past Cheveldave at 9:05 on Zane Jones’ fifth of the season. Forward Austin Carroll circled around the net before he crossed a seeing-eye pass to Jones at the right of the net. Jones received the puck and quickly wristed it past the outstretched leg of the Kamloops netminder to make it a 2-1 game. Victoria pulled even with 4:42 remaining in the period. Royals’ rookie Ben Walker burst into the zone and wired a shot from the high slot that eluded Cheveldave and beat him high over the blocker. The marker was Walker’s first WHL goal. The teams skated into the final period tied 2-2.

Kamloops restored their lead at 5:08 of the final frame after Chase Souto drove to the net from the left corner. Souto threw a puck towards the net that redirected onto the stick of Ryan Hanes in the slot who backhanded the puck past a sprawled out Hamilton to give the Blazers a 3-2 lead. Tim Bozon looked to add to the Blazers’ lead before the 10 minute mark after he broke in on a partial breakaway, but a strong defensive stick check by Victoria’s Jesse Pauls negated the scoring chance. Minutes later, Matt Needham would add Kamloops’s fourth at 11:49 after he put a Brendan Ranford pass past Hamilton from the right side of the crease. With just over a minute left in the game, the Royals pulled Hamilton for the extra attacker, but Kamloops held on for the win. Blazers 4 Royals 2.

Victoria went 0/3 = 0.0% on the power play, while Kamloops was 1/3 = 33.3%. The Royals outshot the Blazers 31-29.

pontcanna
12-04-2011, 03:03 AM
No breaks at all. First goal was the direct result of a completely blown offside call at the Royals' blueline - both the video and Kamloops' own announcers decreed that the Blazer d-man failed to keep the puck in at the point and it was out by about two feet. Habby was mighty angry about that. I guess the team were angry and distracted too, as the next goal came only 13 seconds later. Missed penalty shot later in the period. Good stuff for tying it up in the second (Jones continues his good form) but despite having a lot of the play (outshooting them in their own barn) we couldn't prevail in the third.

CdnSailor
12-04-2011, 02:09 PM
No breaks at all. First goal was the direct result of a completely blown offside call at the Royals' blueline - both the video and Kamloops' own announcers decreed that the Blazer d-man failed to keep the puck in at the point and it was out by about two feet. Habby was mighty angry about that. I guess the team were angry and distracted too, as the next goal came only 13 seconds later. Missed penalty shot later in the period. Good stuff for tying it up in the second (Jones continues his good form) but despite having a lot of the play (outshooting them in their own barn) we couldn't prevail in the third.

Here is the video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-6YQYaweDc

CdnSailor
12-04-2011, 08:34 PM
By CLEVE DHEENSAW, Times Colonist December 3, 2011

It always seemed the Kamloops Blazers had a way of getting the better of Victoria teams in the Western Hockey League.

In the waning years of Victoria’s last WHL incarnation as the Cougars, it had a sorry history of trading away players such as top-shelf goaltender Steve Passmore and explosive forward Len Barrie late in their junior careers to the Blazers and getting little in return while Kamloops used those players to win WHL championships.

The trend seems to be continuing as the Blazers have won all four games against Royals so far this season.

The streak continue Saturday night in Kamloops as the Blazers (20-7-1) beat the Royal (12-16-2) 4-2.

Regardless of history, or maybe because of it, the Kamloops franchise is glad to have Victoria back as a rival.

“It’s great for the league because Victoria is a great market,” said Tom Gaglardi, Blazers co-owner and team president and also now owner of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League.

“On some levels, the WHL never should have left [Victoria was out of the league for 17 years before this season].”

The long-awaited return to the capital has seen Royals attendance levels rank among the top-10 in major-junior hockey across North America.

“It’s up-class. Victoria is a bigger city [than Chilliwack, where the Royals played the previous five seasons as the Bruins] and it’s a nicer arena,” said Royals forward Tim Traber.

The defensive-oriented Trabe is the kind of meat-and-potatoes player this workmanlike Victoria team needs if it is to be effective this season.

“I do the dirty work . . . whatever it takes,” said the native of Quesnel.

“We have to do the simple things and not make it too complicated.”

The journey continues for the Royals with a two-game set Tuesday and Wednesday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre against the Tri City Americans, one of this season’s best teams.

The Americans (20-7 heading into Saturday night’s game at Everett against the Silvertips) are the third-ranked club in the latest Canadian Hockey League BMO Mastercard top-10 poll of major-junior teams, behind only the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League and St. John Sea Dogs of the Quebec league.

It will be like old-home week when the Americans roll into town.

Tri Citys head coach, Port Alberni-native Jim Hiller, was the first coach in franchise history for the Chilliwack Bruins/Victoria Royals and landed the gig in 2006-07 after guiding the hometown Alberni Valley Bulldogs to a snappy 43-12-2 record the previous season in the B.C. Hockey League. Hiller coached the Bruins for three seasons before being replaced by Marc Habscheid, now GM and coach of the Royals. Hiller, meanwhile, became coach of the Americans in 2009. Although Victoria fans never got to know current Americans defenceman Mitch Topping, Hiller certainly did in Chilliwack. As a first-round bantam draft taken eighth overall, he figured large in the Bruin’s plans.

Topping, however, was traded to Tri-City over the off season for 16-year-old forward Justin Spagrud just after the Bruins became the Royals and moved from the Fraser Valley to the Island. Topping belatedly arrives on the Island this week.

Tri City rearguard and Peninsula minor hockey product and Parkland High-grad Sam Grist, a former Victoria Grizzlies junior in the BCHL, was overlooked in the WHL bantam draft but the late bloomer has grown from six-feet into a his strapping six-foot-four frame and provides an ample presence on the Americans blue line.

Both Grist and Topping were ranked by Central Scouting for the 2011 NHL draft, 90th and 191st respectively, but were not selected.

Following the Tri City set, the Royals host the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Friday followed by a six-game road swing and the Christmas break. The next game at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre will be Jan. 3 against the Calgary Hitmen.