The Victoria Royals keep finding ways to win. The Royals are off to a 4-0 start, winning games via shoot-outs, special teams, last minute heroics and third period comebacks. The team that many counted out of the race for this season is so far proving their skeptics wrong. Out fast […]
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Royals Recap- Kambeitz delivers; Special teams shine; News & Notes
In their first two games of the season, Victoria Royals forward Dino Kambeitz has delivered the offense in his team’s victories. In last Friday’s shootout, he fired a wrist shot to secure the extra point for his club versus the Prince George Cougars. Kambeitz followed that up on Saturday by […]
Outhouse solid as Royals defeat Cougars in a shootout
Griffen Outhouse looked in mid-season form. The Victoria Royals netminder stopped 28 of 29 shots he faced on the night, including a chain of athletic saves in the second period that brought the home crowd of 5,867 to their feet. With the score deadlocked at 1-1 after regulation, Outhouse was expectedly […]
2018-19 WHL Season Previews: Vancouver Giants
It’s that time of year again! We at the DubNetwork always try to come up with a new order for previews each year and this season we are going with least recent to most recent Ed Chynoweth Cups for our order of previews. They will run 2-to-3 a day until […]
2018-19 WHL Season Previews: Victoria Royals
It’s that time of year again! We at the DubNetwork always try to come up with a new order for previews each year and this season we are going with least recent to most recent Ed Chynoweth Cups for our order of previews. They will run 2-to-3 a day until […]
Victoria Royals going with their young guns
The term rebuild is always one that sports teams shy away from. The rebuilding of sports teams is often a perceived negative, associated with required patience of their fan base, while the team works toward their set direction. Seemingly more appealing is the term “youth movement”, signalizing a changing of […]
Rasmussen powers Americans past Royals in Game 2
The Tri-City Americans and Victoria Royals faced off for Game 2 Saturday night in Victoria. Like all of the hockey world, thoughts were still on the tragedy unfolding in Saskatchewan involving the Humboldt Broncos. A pre-game moment of silence was held in the arena as both teams joined each other […]
Victoria Royals outlast the Vancouver Giants in Game 7 to win series
There would not be another Game 7 heartbreak for the Royals. Matthew Phillips blocked a shot with less than a second remaining to seal the win for the Royals and secure the series win. In a Game 7 in 2016, the Kelowna Rockets scored on the Royals with .02 seconds […]
Phillips finds a way to get it done -Victoria Royals push the series to Game 7
Just find a way. That’s what Victoria Royals captain Matthew Phillips said they would have to do for a victory in Game 6. After a 5-3 loss in Game 5, Phillips said post-game “Just find a way. It might not be pretty. It’s gut-check time, play the best that you […]
Missed opportunities for Royals as Giants win Game 5
Successful teams in the playoffs make the most out opportunities. The Royals were in the favourable spot of having four power plays to Vancouver’s zero in the first period but could not cash in. Instead the Giants struck first and then rode a Victoria collapse in the second period for […]