Victoria at Edmonton 14 Dec 11

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Victoria is now on a 3 game Alberta road swing beginning in Edmonton.

Edmonton is currently the hottest team on the market with a 9-0 streak.
They are currently 1st over all in the Eastern Divison.

Victoria is currently 6th in the Western Division with no consistancy in there games.

Edmonton Oil Kings 32 21 8 1 2 = 45 PTS 9-0-0-0 STK 9-1-0-0 P10 605 PIM

Victoria Royals 34 13 18 1 2 = 29 PTS 1-0-0-1 STK 2-6-1-1 P10 617 PIM

Game is televised on Shaw Cable.

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Game Highlights
http://youtu.be/-jxBN1IM_Qo

Interview with Kevin Sundher and the missing teeth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADUtD...ature=youtu.be


1st Period

Royals 1st goal by Jamie Crooks
Oilers 1st goal by Dylan Wruck (PP)
Royals 2nd goal by Austin Carroll
Oilers 2nd goal by Martin Gernat
Oilers 3rd goal by Dylan Wruck


2nd Period

Fight between Royals Zane Jones and Oilers Keegan Lowe
Oilers 4th goal by Cody Corbett (PP)
Royals 3rd goal by Steven Hodges
Oilers 5th goal by Michael St. Croix

3rd Period

Oil Kings 6th goal by Tyler Maxwell

Attendance
5679

SCORING 1 2 3 Total
Victoria Royals 2 1 0 3
Edmonton Oil Kings 3 2 1 6

SHOTS 1 2 3 Total
Victoria Royals 7 7 15 29
Edmonton Oil Kings 9 10 11 30



3 Stars
1. EDM - 18 Michael St. Croix
2. EDM - 11 Dylan Wruck
3. EDM - 2 Cody Corbett


Game Summary
http://www.whl.ca/schedule/show/game/59752

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For Immediate Release

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Edmonton, AB – In a Wednesday night matchup at Rexall Place, the Victoria Royals took on the Edmonton Oil Kings in their second of two meetings this season. The Royals gave Keith Hamilton the start in net, while the Oil Kings went with Laurent Brossoit.

The Royals controlled the play from the opening puck drop and were rewarded with the game’s first goal before the five minute mark. Victoria forward Kevin Sundher circled around the offensive zone before he sent a backhand pass to Jamie Crooks in the slot. Crooks quickly one-timed the puck past the outstretched pad from Brossoit for his 16th marker of season. The Oil Kings replied just prior to the 15 minute mark off a power play when Dylan Wruck snapped a low shot past Hamilton from the high slot. Just over a minute later the Royals regained their lead. Forward Austin Carroll skated around an Edmonton defender and snapped a shot over the left shoulder of Brossoit from the right circle for his third tally of the campaign. Before the end of the period, the Oil Kings added two goals from Martin Gernat and Wruck 1:01 apart to stake them to a 3-2 lead after 20 minutes.

The second period started with few whistles as the teams settled into a defensive style of play. Before the half way point of the frame, Zane Jones dropped the gloves with Keegan Lowe. Both players wrestled around to start before Jones landed a few blows as they fell to the ice. The Oil Kings added their second power play goal past Hamilton when Cody Corbett stepped into a slap shot from the point that beat the Royals’ netminder along the ice. With three minutes left in the period, Victoria narrowed the Edmonton lead to one. Royals’ centre Steven Hodges burst down the left wing on a 2-on-1 with Tim Traber, but held on to the puck as he fired a shot between the legs of the Oil Kings’ goaltender. Edmonton restored their two goal lead late in the middle frame as Michael St. Croix gave the Oil Kings a 5-3 lead going into the final period.

Edmonton looked to add to their lead early after they got several opportunities in close, but Hamilton was able to keep his team within two. The Royals found themselves on the man advantage for most of the first half of the period, but were unable to convert any of their scoring chances past Brossoit. The Oil Kings’ Tyler Maxwell added another goal late as Edmonton held on for the victory. Oil Kings 6 Royals 3.

Victoria went 0/4 = 0.0% on the power play, while Edmonton was 2/2 = 100.0%. The Oil Kings outshot the Royals 30-29.

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Oil Kings too hot to handle

BY CLEVE DHEENSAW, TIMESCOLONIST.COM DECEMBER 14, 2011 11:05 PM

Ten, torrid and terrific.

The Edmonton Oil Kings are all those things as their Western Hockey League winning streak moved into double digits Wednesday night at the expense of the visiting Victoria Royals.

The 6-3 decision over the Royals, before an announced 5,679 fans at Rexall Place, gave the Oil Kings 10 consecutive victories and a 60-21 goals advantage during that stretch.

Victoria held 1-0 and 2-1 leads in the first period but they were short-lived. Edmonton didn’t have many chances, but beat Royals goaltender Keith Hamilton five times on just 19 shots in building a 5-3 lead over two periods.

The Royals were just as opportunistic over the opening two frames with three goals on 14 shots against Edmonton starter Laurent Brossoit.

“I didn’t mind our game. We had a strong start and did a lot of good things,” said Victoria GM and head coach Marc Habscheid, by phone from Edmonton.

“We kept our shot count down to 19 after two periods and I will take that anytime against a team like the Oil Kings. But in the end, six goals are too many to give up.”

That took Victoria’s league-worst goals-against total to 172 as the club (13-19-3) fell to seventh place in the 10-team Western Conference, in which eight make the playoffs.

The Oil Kings were missing defenceman Mark Pysyk, one of six WHL players named to the Canadian team for the upcoming 2012 world junior championship, but Victoria could not take full advantage.

Jamie Crooks, Austin Carroll and Steven Hodges were the Royals who scored.

Edmonton (22-8-3) outshot Victoria 30-29. But the Royals pressed in the third period, aided by three power-play advantages, in outshooting Edmonton 15-11 over the final frame.

The Royals, however, finished 0-4 for the game on the oddman advantage.

“We passed on some good shots on the power play and maybe tried to get too cute,” said Habscheid.

“But Edmonton pressures the outside well on their penalty kill.”

Dylan Wruck led the Oil Kings with two goals while 2011 New York Rangers fourth-round draft pick Michael St. Croix added a goal and three assists.

The trade for 20-year-old Tyler Maxwell, the leading scorer in Everett Silvertips franchise history, continued to pay dividends for the Oil Kings. The undrafted native of Manhattan Beach, California, had a goal and assist Wednesday and is 9-0 with seven goals and 17 points since being acquired by the Oil Kings from the Silvertips.

The other Oil Kings goals came from Martin Gernat and Cody Corbett.

The Royals continue with the third game of their six consecutive road contests Friday night in Lethbridge against the Hurricanes, who are captained by club leading-scorer Cam Braes of Shawnigan Lake. The game will be the first back for Royals forward Robin Soudek after sitting out a four-game suspension.

The Royals are in Medicine Hat against the Tigers on Saturday night and will likely face goaltender Tyler Bunz, who will be back in the Hat’s crease after being cut from the Canadian junior team. As of Wednesday, starry forward Emerson Etem of the U.S. junior team was still with the Tigers.