Kelowna at Victoria Nov 29/30

[CdnSailor]

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Victoria continues to lose with no end in site. They have lost 4 in a row and 7 of their past 8.

Their closet showing was againt Kelowna on Saturday losing 6 to 5 with an almost goal at the 20:00 min mark of the third period.

Royals are currently 7th in the Western Divison, 2 pts ahead of Seattle who has 3 games in hand.
Kamloops is currently in 4th place in the Western Division and is 2nd in the BC Division 10 pts ahead of Victoria and 2 games in hand.

Kamloops Blazers 24 16 7 1 0 = 33 PTS 2-0-0-0 STK 5-4-1-0 P10 424 PIM
Victoria Royals 26 11 14 0 1 = 23 PTS 0-4-0-0 STK 3-7-0-0 P10 496 PIM

[pontcanna]

Geez, hope your at-sea navigation was better than your BC geography

Kamloops Blazers are here this week!

What are you writing about Pontcanna

[CdnSailor]

[QUOTE=pontcanna;173236]Geez, hope your at-sea navigation was better than your BC geography

Kamloops Blazers are here this week!
QUOTE]


What are you writing about Pontcanna

[pontcanna]

Nice editing job there Sailor

[50sWHLer]

Geez, you gotta wonder, Eh!! Pontcanna has been chasing Cdnsailor from site to site, just to correct him !! --- just to CUT HIM UP!!! ( "Quote: " I hope that your at- sea navigation was better than your B.C Geography" )

We ALL know that Kamloops is here this week, and, sure Cdnsailor had a Typo, ( on the other site) noting Kelowna for Kamloops --- but give the Guy a break!

Who does more for BOTH sites than cdnsailor?? --- Sure the Heck, NOT you Pontcanna

How about just posting something meaningful !!

[CdnSailor]

Geez, you gotta wonder, Eh!! Pontcanna has been chasing Cdnsailor from site to site, just to correct him !! --- just to CUT HIM UP!!! ( "Quote: " I hope that your at- sea navigation was better than your B.C Geography" )

We ALL know that Kamloops is here this week, and, sure Cdnsailor had a Typo, ( on the other site) noting Kelowna for Kamloops --- but give the Guy a break!

Who does more for BOTH sites than cdnsailor?? --- Sure the Heck, NOT you Pontcanna

How about just posting something meaningful !!

Hey my friend, all is good in hockey and hockey. We are having fun bantering back and forth. I made a fubar and had all the info for Kelowna not Kamloops. It was a realy bad Monday overall

[mjw22]

It was a realy bad Monday overall

We all have them lol .Any indication if Royals are going to move any vets or are they more concerned with making the playoffs. We could use an offensive dman/import and or a scoring forward.We have a 20 year old and import spot open.

[pontcanna]

Blazers arrive on hot streak

By Cleve Dheensaw, timescolonist.com November 28, 2011 11:05 PM

It’s the Victoria team in the Western Hockey League that bears the monarchic nickname. But it’s the Kamloops Blazers that once used to be WHL royalty with three Memorial Cup national championships in the 1990s.

That’s before they became league commoners, not making it past the first round of the playoffs in the 12 seasons since then-Blazers coach Marc Habscheid took them to the league final in 1999.

But don’t look now. A palace coup has taken place as the Blazers have the best winning percentage in the B.C. Division at 16-7-1 after a bleak 2010-11 campaign in which they missed the playoffs. The resurgent Blazers roll into Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre for a two-game set against the Victoria Royals tonight and Wednesday.

“Kamloops is a good team, and an older team that has been building to this for awhile,” said Habscheid, now GM and head coach of the Royals.

This is where the younger Royals, who have lost four straight games and seven of their past eight, hope to be in a couple of years.

Despite the recent dip, Monday’s practice was conducted in high spirits.

“Our guys’ energy has been good,” said Habscheid.

“We’re keeping upbeat and positive. We’re believing and we keep pursuing. I like our young guys.”

At 11-14-1, this perhaps shouldn’t be the most optimistic of teams. But it remains buoyant despite the recent slide.

“This is the closest-knit team I’ve been on,” said Royals forward Logan Nelson.

Habscheid’s Royals squad may eventually be aiming for what his 1998-99 WHL-finalist Blazers accomplished. The latter had future NHLer Robyn Regehr but mostly a whole lot of unheralded but diligent, hard-working future AHL and ECHL minor-pros like Steve Shrum, Ajay Baines, Steve Gainey, Chad Starling, Donnie Kinney and Kenric Exner.

“We’ve all been in slumps. We’re staying positive,” said Royals forward Brandon Magee, who is just the type of role player that past successful Habscheid teams in Kamloops and Kelowna have thrived on.

In many ways, the Royals are meeting an older, more experienced mirror image of themselves tonight and Wednesday. The Blazers are good but not necessarily flashy.

Forwards such as Chase Schaber and Dylan Willick are indicative of this Kamloops club’s ethic. Neither 20-year-old was drafted but both remained determined enough to receive invites this fall to Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Wild camps, respectively.

Colin Smith leads the team in points with 28 as the Blazers clearly like to spread it around. On this veteran-laden team, 16-year-old forward Matt Needham, named to Team Pacific for the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, provides a rare glimpse of raw youth.

“Kamloops is a gritty team and we have to match their hard work,” warned Magee.

This is Kamloops’ first visit to Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre after 8-2 and 4-1 victories against Victoria in the Interior.

Nelson said structures broke down in that most recent Royals loss in Kamloops, which came Friday.

“We watched a lot of video after that game; and on Saturday [6-5 loss in Kelowna] we played within our system,” added Nelson.

[CdnSailor]

We all have them lol .Any indication if Royals are going to move any vets or are they more concerned with making the playoffs. We could use an offensive dman/import and or a scoring forward.We have a 20 year old and import spot open.

You would probably hear before us. We are just the fans..........

[pontcanna]

Well, a much better performance all the way around (I know that's not saying much, but...). Kept the shots against down to a reasonable level, lots of mistakes still in the defensive zone but also a sense of order/less panic than has been evident lately. Shame that first "own goal" cost us in the end. Loops played a good road game and were solid defensively. We seemed to have lots of "one on three" breaks. No fights, game zipped along at a good clip. Pity we couldn't cash in on the 6 on 4 at the end...some close calls but couldn't close the deal. 4440 on a rainy Tuesday, not bad. I imagine a little over 5k tomorrow (Wednesday being the more traditional hockey night and the better choice for the "choose one game" casual punter).