Sunday 13 October 2013

Preview, Prince George at Victoria, Monday 1pm Oct 14th

The Victoria Royals (6-5, 12pts) host a Thanksgiving matinee against the Prince George Cougars Monday afternoon, the first of a two game set.

Pregame show at 12:45 on The Zone @ 91.3 fm or online at www.thezone.fm/listen

It’s an important BC Division match up, as Victoria sits 2nd, with 12 points just one point up on Prince George who sit 3rd with 11.

The Royals are 1-1 against the Cougars so far this season, with a 1-0 win October 1st, after a 2-0 loss the night before, both in Prince George.  Neither team struck on the power play, and both ended with 55 shots a piece after the pair of games.  Reigning CHL goaltender of the week 17 year old Ty Edmonds played both games for the Cougars while Coleman Vollrath made 25 saves in a losing effort, followed up by a 28 save shut out performance by Patrik Polivka.

Victoria is riding a 3 game win streak, all on their current 5 game home stand, which wraps up Wednesday against the Cougars.  The Royals are coming off back to back wins against the Hurricanes by 4-3 and 4-0 scores Friday and Saturday respectively. 

Prince George is unbeaten in regulation over their last 3 games (2-0-0-1).  The Cougars earned a split against the Silvertips with a 4-3 overtime win Saturday after a 3-2 shoot out loss the night before at the CN Centre.

Prince George is an even .500 on the road (2-2), while Victoria has pulled to an even 3-3 at home. 

Both clubs are playing 3 games in 4 days, with the Cougars figuring in a day of travel as well.

The Royals Logan Nelson extended his goal scoring streak to 4 games (4g 3a, 7pts), Austin Carroll (2g 3a, 5pts) and Joe Hicketts (3g 4a, 7pts) are on 4 game point streaks as well.

-Marlon Martens

Victoria Royals vs Prince George Cougars: Head To Head Stats
Summary


 
Description
Result
Head to Head Record 2013-14 Regular Season Victoria 1-1-0-0Prince George 1-1-0-0
Head to Head Record 2012-13 Regular Season Victoria 6-2-0-0Prince George 2-4-0-2
Last 5 Years record between teams Victoria 23-9-0-2Prince George 11-19-0-4
Victoria vs. Prince George Last 5 Years record at Victoria Victoria 10-5-0-1Prince George 6-8-0-2
Victoria vs. Prince George Last 5 Years record at Prince George Victoria 13-4-0-1Prince George 5-11-0-2
Previous Meetings This Season Victoria 1 @ Prince George 0 (Oct 2 2013) Final
Victoria 0 @ Prince George 2 (Oct 1 2013) Final

How the 2 teams match up
     
 
Prince George
Victoria
Team Record 5-4-0-1 -- 11 points 6-5-0-0 -- 12 points
Division Ranking 3rd B.C. 2nd B.C.
Conference Ranking 6th Western 5th Western
League Ranking 12th 9th
Past 10 Games 5-4-0-1 5-5-0-0
Streak 2-0-0-1 3-0-0-0
Last Game 4-3 W vs Everett (Oct 12 2013) Final OT 4-3 W vs Lethbridge (Oct 12 2013) Final
Home Record 3-2-0-1 3-3-0-0
Away Record 2-2-0-0 3-2-0-0
GF 23  26 
GA 31  29 
PP (Overall) (6/49) 12.2 (9/52) 17.3
PP (Home) (3/29) 10.3 (6/27) 22.2
PP (Away) (3/20) 15.0 (3/25) 12.0
PK (Overall) (12/48) 75.0 (8/50) 84.0
PK (Home) (3/22) 86.4 (7/32) 78.1
PK (Away) (9/26) 65.4 (1/18) 94.4
Leading Rookie Morrison (3-0-3) Soy (0-2-2)
Most PIM Pochiro - 24 Crunk - 22
Team PIM/GM 19.5/Game 17.5/Game
Leading Scorers Pochiro (4-4-8) Nelson (5-7-12)
  Bourke (3-4-7) Hicketts (4-5-9)
  Witala (3-4-7) Carroll (5-3-8)
  Forsberg (1-6-7) Magee (1-5-6)
  Wilson (4-1-5) Cote (0-6-6)
Last 5 Games 4-3 W vs Everett (Oct 12 2013) Final OT 4-3 W vs Lethbridge (Oct 12 2013) Final
  3-2 L vs Everett (Oct 11 2013) Final SO 4-0 W vs Lethbridge (Oct 11 2013) Final
  3-0 W @ Kamloops (Oct 5 2013) Final 2-1 W vs Tri-City (Oct 6 2013) Final
  1-0 L vs Victoria (Oct 2 2013) Final 4-3 L @ Kamloops (Oct 4 2013) Final
  2-0 W vs Victoria (Oct 1 2013) Final 1-0 W @ Prince George (Oct 2 2013) Final
Leading After 1st 3-0-0-1 1-0-0-0
Leading After 2nd 4-0-0-0 3-0-0-0
Tied After 1st 1-3-0-0 4-1-0-0
Tied After 2nd 1-0-0-1 1-0-0-0
Trailing After 1st 1-1-0-0 1-4-0-0
Trailing After 2nd 0-4-0-0 2-5-0-0
Out Shooting Opponents 4-2-0-1 1-3-0-0
Out Shot by Opponents 1-2-0-0 3-2-0-0
1-Goal Games 2-1-0-1 4-2-0-0
2-Goal Games 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0
3-Goal Games 1-1-0-0 0-0-0-0