At this rate Brandon Magee is hoping this month never ends.
The 19-year-old Edmonton native recorded a three-point night in the Victoria Royals’ 5-2 win over the Prince George Cougars on Saturday at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. It followed a four-point effort in Friday’s 8-1 victory.
All Magee has managed this month is seven goals and 10 assists in eight games as he takes over the team lead in points with 36.
“Obviously me and my linemates have been playing really well together,” Magee said of Axel Blomqvist and Steven Hodges. “Bloomer and Hodgy have been turning it on here lately, too. As a group we’ve been playing really well and the whole team has been making strides in the right direction.
“I think every guy has been a little more confident with the puck. We’re playing really well, having fun and scoring a lot of goals lately, so we can’t complain.”
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As a team, the Royals are now 16-6-0-1 for 33 points since Nov. 1, behind Kelowna (21-1-0-0 for 42 points) over that same span as Victoria makes a push. The Royals are also 25-13-0-2 overall. Ben Walker opened the scoring, one-timing a pass from Magee at 6:01 of the first period. Jack Palmer made it 2-0 just 1:21 later as the Victoria native collected his second goal in two nights.
Magee then bagged his 14th of the season at 14:57 of the first and Blomqvist, with his fourth goal in two games, made it 4-0 with 50.2 seconds left in the opening frame as Cougars goaltender Ty Edmonds was lit up for the second straight night. Klarc Wilson got one back for the Cougars as he banked the puck in off goaltender Coleman Vollrath’s skate from behind the net at 2:41 of the second, but Austin Carroll scored his second in two games, 10 minutes later. It was Carroll’s team-leading 20th goal.Todd Fiddler scored on a 5-on-3 advantage for the Cougars in the third.
The Royals will head to Everett on Tuesday to face the Silvertips at 6 p.m. in a key conference matchup before the same two teams hook back up in Victoria on Wednesday - New Year’s day - at 3:05 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Logan Nelson sat out and is listed as day-to-day for the Royals . … Victoria defencemen Isaac Schacher and Jake Kohlhauser were both an amazing +6 on Friday. … Tate Coughlin of Victoria had an assist in his first game with the Kelowna Rockets in Friday’s 7-1 win over Kamloops. Coughlin was a call-up from the Peninsula Panthers of the VIJHL.
