Victoria Royals

The future arrived a lot earlier than expected for Austin Zemlak. He coined an apt term for it: “Pre-experience, and I think it will be huge for my development in getting it.

In an ideal world, goaltender Dylan Garand of Langford and defencemen Sean Strange of Saanich and Ethan Brandwood of Victoria would be chasing the Western Hockey League title and Memorial Cup national championship with the Kamloops Blazers, who were

The blue line is bountiful when it comes to the Island. Dylan Coghlan of Nanaimo made his NHL debut this season to join Victoria veterans Tyson Barrie, Jordie Benn and Matt Irwin as defencemen in the big league.

Not even missing Calgary Flames first-round draft pick Connor Zary to injury, and Logan Stankoven to Team Canada duty at the world U-18 championship in Texas, could stop the deep Kamloops Blazers on Monday night.

VANCOUVER 5 (SO) VICTORIA 4 It’s only fitting than an eight-goal regulation-time shootout should be decided by an actual shootout.

You just know this one felt good for the Victoria Royals. The Royals (2-13-1) snapped a 10-game WHL losing streak with a 2-1 overtime victory over the Prince George Cougars on Friday night in Kamloops.

Whether 22 games is a fair sample size in the Western Hockey League can be debated. But a season is a season in some sense.

The Kelowna Rockets look none the worse for wear after their COVID-19 outbreak, returning from nearly three weeks of isolation to go 5-1 since.

Victoria is no stranger to identical twins in sports, most famously when Gary and Paul Gait revolutionized the game of lacrosse.

The Vancouver Giants and Kamloops Blazers looked formidable last March, but the Victoria Royals were also deep in veteran talent and potentially lurking to spring a spring playoff surprise. We’ll never know, of course.