Thursday, August 23, 2012

Victoria Royals

The WHL two-a-days end with the newest team in the Victoria Royals.  They played their first season recently as a member of the British Columbia division of the Western Conference, and came to be when the team moved from Chilliwack, BC.  Originally called the Chilliwack Bruins, the team moved to Victoria last year and 233 goals and gave up a league leading 325 goals.  That lack of defense was exposed in a sweep at the hands of Kamloops in the opening round.  Because of the lack of history between the two franchises (Chilliwack came into the WHL as an expansion team in 2006), there are not many NHL players to have come through the Bruins/Royals.  The only players to have seen NHL time were Oscar Moller, Roman Horak, and Nick Holden, all of whom were on the Bruins.

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