Thursday 3 October 2013

Preview: Victoria at Kamloops Friday Oct 4

The Victoria Royals (3-4) wrap up a 4 game BC Division road trip in Kamloops against the Blazers (1-3) Friday night.

Pregame show on The Zone @ 6:40 or online at www.thezone.fm/listen

It’s their first meeting since the first round loss to the Blazers last spring in 6 games.

Victoria is coming off a 1-0 shut out victory in Prince George Wednesday night, earning the split and avenging the 2-0 defeat from the night before.  Ben Walker scored a short handed breakaway goal for the winner, while Patrik Polivka made all 28 saves. 

The Royals are now 2-1 on their 4 game road trip, which started with a win in Kelowna.

Last season Victoria was an even .500 versus Kamloops with a 4-4 record, winning two in shoot outs.

The Blazers return home after falling 3-1 on the road against the Cougars last Saturday, settling for a split in their two game set after a 5-2 victory the night before.

Last season, Kamloops won 47 games, and making it to the conference final before falling in 5 to Portland.

The Blazers have several key losses from last years club as 9 players are not returning including; F Dylan Willick, F Kale Kessy, F Brendan Ranford who all Graduated.  D Joel Edmundson, F Colin Smith (COL) and F JC Lipon expected to play in AHL.  D Tyler Hansen went on a Church mission, D Marek Hrbas playing pro in Czech Republic and G Cole Cheveldave was traded to the Prince Albert Raiders.

Victoria is still without Steven Hodges (lower, 4 weeks).

After the road trip, the Royals kick off a 5 game homestand with a Sunday afternoon matinee against the Americans.

- Marlon Martens

Victoria Royals vs Kamloops Blazers: Head To Head Stats
Summary

Description
Result
Head to Head Record 2013-14 Regular Season Victoria 0-0-0-0Kamloops 0-0-0-0
Head to Head Record 2012-13 Regular Season Victoria 4-4-0-0Kamloops 4-2-0-2
Last 5 Years record between teams Victoria 13-16-1-2Kamloops 19-10-1-2
Victoria vs. Kamloops Last 5 Years record at Victoria Victoria 9-5-1-1Kamloops 7-7-0-2
Victoria vs. Kamloops Last 5 Years record at Kamloops Victoria 4-11-0-1Kamloops 12-3-1-0


How the 2 teams match up
Kamloops
Victoria
Team Record 1-3-0-0 -- 2 points 3-4-0-0 -- 6 points
Division Ranking 4th B.C. 3rd B.C.
Conference Ranking 9th Western 6th Western
League Ranking 19th 11th
Past 10 Games 1-3-0-0 3-4-0-0
Streak 0-1-0-0 1-0-0-0
Last Game 3-1 L @ Prince George (Sep 28 2013) Final 1-0 W @ Prince George (Oct 2 2013) Final
Home Record 0-1-0-0 0-3-0-0
Away Record 1-2-0-0 3-1-0-0
GF 10  13 
GA 15  21 
PP (Overall) (2/16) 12.5 (3/32) 9.4
PP (Home) (0/4) 0.0 (2/14) 14.3
PP (Away) (2/12) 16.7 (1/18) 5.6
PK (Overall) (4/25) 84.0 (6/30) 80.0
PK (Home) (1/6) 83.3 (5/15) 66.7
PK (Away) (3/19) 84.2 (1/15) 93.3
Leading Rookie (0-0-0) (0-0-0)
Most PIM Grist - 15 Carroll - 20
Team PIM/GM 21.8/Game 17.6/Game
Leading Scorers Connolly (2-2-4) Nelson (1-4-5)
Ully (3-0-3) Carroll (3-0-3)
Kornelsen (2-0-2) Fushimi (2-1-3)
Ness (2-0-2) Hicketts (1-1-2)
Macklin (0-2-2) Magee (1-1-2)
Last 5 Games 3-1 L @ Prince George (Sep 28 2013) Final 1-0 W @ Prince George (Oct 2 2013) Final
5-2 W @ Prince George (Sep 27 2013) Final 2-0 L @ Prince George (Oct 1 2013) Final
5-2 L @ Kelowna (Sep 21 2013) Final 4-3 W @ Kelowna (Sep 28 2013) Final SO
5-2 L vs Kelowna (Sep 20 2013) Final 6-1 L vs Spokane (Sep 25 2013) Final
6-2 L vs Spokane (Sep 24 2013) Final
Leading After 1st 1-0-0-0 0-0-0-0
Leading After 2nd 1-0-0-0 2-0-0-0
Tied After 1st 0-1-0-0 2-1-0-0
Tied After 2nd 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0
Trailing After 1st 0-2-0-0 1-3-0-0
Trailing After 2nd 0-3-0-0 1-4-0-0
Out Shooting Opponents 0-0-0-0 0-2-0-0
Out Shot by Opponents 1-3-0-0 2-2-0-0
1-Goal Games 0-0-0-0 2-1-0-0
2-Goal Games 0-1-0-0 1-1-0-0
3-Goal Games 1-2-0-0 0-0-0-0