Tuesday night’s game at SaskTel Centre evoked memories from 30 years ago; pleasant for some, nightmarish for others. About 30 years ago at the old Winnipeg Arena, there were vintage battles between the Wayne Gretzky-led Edmonton Oilers and the over-matched Winnipeg Jets. For the purposes of Tuesday night, substitute […]
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Wheat Kings power past the Royals
The Victoria Royals (9-2-1-0) fell to the Brandon Wheat Kings (8-3-0-1) Saturday night at the Westman Place in Brandon, in what was a showdown of two of the top teams in the WHL. Coming into the game, each team were man-advantage specialists, as Brandon boasted the top power play percentage, while […]
Victoria takes a point away from Edmonton
The top seeded team in the B.C. Division, Victoria Royals (9-1-1) rolled into Edmonton (4-6-2) to face the Oil Kings Wednesday night. Matthew Phillips entered the evening with nine goals and 15 assists on the season, scoring at a rate 1.07 times higher than last season Victoria opened the […]
On the road with Marlon Martens of the Victoria Royals
The Victoria Royals are in the midst of their longest road trip of the year and DUBNetwork caught up with the radio voice of the Victoria Royals Marlon Martens to discuss life on the road. Martens has been the play-by-play broadcaster for the Royals since their first season in 2011 […]
Royals roll past Americans
After a Thanksgiving break the Victoria Royals (7-0-0-0) were back in action at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria Tuesday and they feasted on Tri-City Americans (3-4-0-0), winning 8-2. The Royals started the scoring quickly and did not let up throughout the game to stay perfect this season. The Tri-City Americans […]
Royals serve notice in Kelowna
The Kelowna Rockets hosted the Victoria Royals at Prospera Place in an early season matchup between two teams yet to lose in regulation time. By many accounts, these are the teams likely to battle for top spot in the BC Division this season. And while the Rockets had hoped to […]
2017 U16 rosters announced
The rosters for the 2017 U16 WHL Cup were announced and nearly every WHL team had a draft pick named. Let’s take a look at those 2002-born players that will be participating in the WHL Cup in Calgary later this month. U-16 Oct 18-22, 2017 in Calgary, Alb BC […]
The Boxscore Report
The 2017-18 WHL season is underway and with that comes something we all missed this summer: Boxscores. Though teams are only 3-5 games in, there are some good signs early on as to who will carry the offensive workload for their clubs this season. Though scoring only paints part of […]
Dante Hannoun scorches the Blazers in a Royals victory
Victoria, BC – Dante Hannoun looks primed for a giant season. Noticeably one of the best players in training camp and preseason, the Victoria Royals (4-0-0) dynamo has continued that solid play into the regular season. In a Sunday afternoon battle versus the Kamloops Blazers (0-5-0), Hannoun led the Royals past the […]
Victoria Royals ride hot power play to victory over the Blazers
The Victoria Royals pulled out a win tonight against the Kamloops Blazers at the Save On Foods Memorial Arena, scoring with thirty seconds remaining to secure the win. The game was wide-open at times, as plenty of odd-man rushes forced each team’s goaltenders to come up with timely saves. The […]