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Game two this evening. Not sure who will be in goal but with his outstanding SOGs I expect Hamilton to be playing.
Defence needs to pick it up a whole bunch of noches if they expect three wins in a row.
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Royals at Prince George 01 Oct
Game two this evening. Not sure who will be in goal but with his outstanding SOGs I expect Hamilton to be playing.
Defence needs to pick it up a whole bunch of noches if they expect three wins in a row.
Last edited by CdnSailor; 10-02-2011 at 12:07 AM.
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Hey Cdnsailor - We CAN do it!!! Yes, I too believe that Hamilton will Start --
--" If it ain't Broken, don't Fix it "
Yup, or 'D' needs to step it up, take the body, keep them on the outside, and cut down those SOG. Keep the testosterone in check & stay outta the Sin Bin too !
Absolutely NO REASON why this can't be 3 in a Row !! Great way to start the season !
GO ROYALS GO !!!
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Guess they may be breaking it. Even the commentators are shocked that he is not playing. Hamilton is not even dressed this evening.Originally Posted by 50sWHLer
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Amazing 1st period.
2/3 give a 4-0 lead.
Only 1 penalty so far for the Royals.
Lets keep up this great pace..............
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Two periods gone and holding a 6-2 lead. Would be nice to keep the pace for another win.
Jamie Crooks gets a hat trick giving Victoria another 1st of the season.
Unfortunately we play Kamloops tomorrow and they have a night off. Will be very difficult to play a fresh team coming off of 2 games in a row.
The league need to look at this as it is not fair to the players.
We do the same next week playing two games at home and then off to Vancouver for another one.
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6-5 Final
Great comeback from PG but the Royals prevailed.
3 stars
1. VIC - 15 Jamie Crooks
2. VIC - 2 Hayden Rintoul
3. P.G - 20 Troy Bourke
Attendance: 2096
pretty crappy to say the least especially with this being their 2nd game of the season at home.
Game Summary
http://whl.ca/schedule/show/game/60220
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Cougars stumble in Royal rematch
Inglis faces suspension for third-period hit
Ted CLARKE
Citizen staff
tclarke@pgcitizen.ca
The Prince George Cougars must have forgot home games start at 7 p.m.
They were there in body for the opening face-off Saturday but their minds to complete the task at hand -- a rematch with the Victoria Royals -- somehow got lost between the dressing room and the ice at CN Centre.
By the time their actions got back in sync with their thoughts, the Cougars had dug themselves a hole too deep. Facing a four-goal deficit with only eight minutes left, they strung together three unanswered goals to make for a suspenseful finish, but couldn't complete the comeback, falling 6-5 to the Royals in front of 2,096 spectators.
Jamie Crooks fired a hat trick to carry the Royals (3-1-0-0) to their third win in four games to move into first place in the B.C. Division, three points ahead of the Cougars (1-1-0-1).
"That was pretty embarrassing to play like that, to be honest," said Cougars forward Greg Fraser. "We kind of sat back in the first period and thought it was going to bit of an easier game. We kind of got our feet under us in the second period and in the third period got back to what we were doing [Saturday], which worked. If we play 60 minutes like we did in the last period we're going to win a lot of games this season."
Play like they did in the first period Saturday, and they're probably going to lose a lot of the 69 games they have left this season. The Cougars were a disorganized mess in the opening 20 minutes, fumbling passes and getting caught out of position. To make matters worse, they didn't get a lot of help from their goaltender, not that they gave Drew Owsley much support. Conversely, the Royals looked like superstars, moving the puck with tape-to-tape precision and generating numerous quality scoring chances.
Shots were 30-29 in favour of the Cougars.
Kade Pilton, Hayden Rintoul and Kevin Sundher also scored for Victoria. Fraser, Charles Inglis, Troy Bourke, Nick Buonassisi and Jake Myktiuk where the Cougar goalscorers.
Inglis was given a match penalty for an elbow in the face of Royals defenceman Tyler Stahl, 3:46 into the third period, and faces a lengthy suspension in the wake of the WHL's crackdown this season on head hits.
The Cougars hit the road Sunday to begin a two-week, seven-game tour of the WHL's East Division, which starts Tuesday in Prince Albert
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WHL Video Highlights
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A hockey fan’s divided loyalties
A hockey fan’s divided loyalties
Sacrifices are part of the deal when moving to a new city, even when moving to Victoria from Prince George.
For starters, moving to southern Vancouver Island from the Interior means saying goodbye to affordable housing, four distinct seasons and the eightminute commute. In reality, however, there wasn’t much that Prince George had that Victoria was missing when I moved here almost two years ago.
Major junior hockey was the glaring exception.
Prince George instantly fell in love with the Cougars when owner Rick Brodsky relocated the team and the beloved name to central B.C. in the summer of 1994.
The first season was played in the old, 2,000-seat Coliseum, but what drew Brodsky north was a 6,000seat arena under construction across town.
The city’s legions of hockey fans craved WHL hockey and routinely filled the new rink for the first seven or eight years, giving not a thought to the people of Victoria or that they were understandably bitter that what was once theirs was taken away.
I was a Cougars season ticket holder in Prince George from 1994 until 2009.
What did Victoria fans miss in those years? There were a few high points, such as when the Cougars came close to winning something semi-important, but there were no firstplace finishes and certainly no trips to the Memorial Cup.
Much like their final few years in Victoria, the Cougars’ existence in Prince George has been mostly a mix of unfulfilled expectations and downright futility.
Much has been made of Victorians supposedly holding a grudge against Prince George for “stealing” the Cougars. Truth be told, there were many times in the past decade when Prince George fans would have gladly given them back.
Aside from a few exciting playoff runs that fell short, the highlight for Cougars fans in P.G. has been watching the development of future NHL stars such as the Canucks’ Dan Hamhuis, Boston’s Zdeno Chara, Tampa Bay’s Eric Brewer and Canucks nemesis Dustin Byfuglien, now with Winnipeg.
That’s the beauty of major junior hockey. The players arrive as wideeyed 16-year-olds, away from home for the first time, and leave at 19 or 20 as men — some with an NHL contract in their back pocket and the promise of stardom on hockey’s biggest stage.
You don’t get that with the ECHL.
The WHL is hockey at its purest — a bus league full of hungry young men playing for each other and an opportunity to someday graduate to the NHL.
It’s great for hockey in Victoria if fans are still harbouring that grudge against Prince George, because there is nothing like a bitter rivalry to stir up emotions in a junior hockey rink.
As for me, I’ll have torn allegiances on a few nights now that the WHL is back in Victoria where it belongs. Seventeen years of loyalty to the Cougars doesn’t disappear overnight.
But this is my town now and I have a new batch of junior hockey stars to follow. Long live the Cougars. Long live the Royals.
Dave Paulson is the Times Colonist’s features editor.
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Based on highlights, I guess the Cougars beat us both nights.
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