The Victoria Royals have acquired defenseman Jacob Herauf from the Red Deer Rebels in exchange for a 2020 second-round pick, a 2021 sixth-round pick and a conditional fifth-round pick in the 2022 WHL Bantam Draft.
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Giants drop final preseason game to undefeated Blazers; Coach Dyck’s thoughts on preseason
The Vancouver Giants (4-2-0-0) ended their 2019 preseason with a 5-1 loss at the hands of the Kamloops Blazers (5-0-0-0) to cap off three games in three nights for this weekend’s six team preseason tournament. 2018 first-round pick Zack Ostapchuk had the only goal for the Giants, snapping a well-placed wrist […]
Giants’ Hardy looking to pick up where he left off for final junior season
If you followed along with my articles during the Vancouver Giants’ run to the WHL Final last season, you would be familiar with ‘The Hardy Boys’. The line of Dawson Holt–Jared Dmytriw–Owen Hardy was easily the team’s best trio through the four rounds, combining for 49 points in 22 games. Coming into […]
Daily Dose of the Dub: Royals and Silvertips sign prospects, training camp updates and more
The Victoria Royals have signed Carter Dereniwsky, Carter Briltz, and Gannon Laroque to WHL Player Agreements.
Daily Dose of the Dub: WHL players to attend NHL development camps
The Kamloops Blazers will have at least five players attending NHL development camps in the coming weeks.
Off-season outlook: Vancouver Giants
This is an ongoing series as we start the long road to the 2019-20 WHL season. We will be going in the order that teams were eliminated from contention. Keep in mind that the roster guesses vary because of information made available to us. We did our very best to […]
Nachbaur scores in return from suspension for Raiders; Chiefs lose Luc Smith to injury
Nachbaur scores in return from suspension Fresh off his 2-game ban, Justin Nachbaur has a goal in his second shift back. Great play by Brook to rush up ice, hold onto it and send it over to an open Nachbaur. 2-0 Raiders, 5:55 into the first. pic.twitter.com/IwlbAJIL5u — Jeff D'Andrea […]
2019 Playoff Preview: 1BC) Vancouver Giants vs. 2US) Spokane Chiefs
Franchise Playoff History: The Spokane Chiefs and Vancouver Giants have battled in the playoffs in three previous years with the Chiefs taking two of the series. 2008 first round: Spokane defeated Vancouver in six games en route to a Memorial Cup victory. 2009 second round: Vancouver eliminated the Chiefs in […]
Series Recap: Giants sweep Royals to advance to Conference Final
The Vancouver Giants are off to the Western Conference Final for the first time since 2010 with their second-round sweep of the Victoria Royals. The matchup was a rematch of last year’s first-round series which Victoria won despite the Giants leading the series three games to two at one point. […]
2019 Playoff Preview: 1BC) Vancouver Giants vs. 2BC) Victoria Royals
Article collaboration by Stephen Hawco (@stephenhawco7) and Ryan Sinclair (@RyanSinVic). 2017-18 Playoff Matchup Last year’s first round playoff battle between the Vancouver Giants and Victoria Royals was epic. The series featured star power the likes of Tyler Benson, Ty Ronning and Matthew Phillips. Victoria held off the Giants in an […]
