Monday 4 February 2013

Preview: Seattle at Victoria (Feb 5)

The Victoria Royals (28-19-1-3, 60pts) entertain the Seattle Thunderbirds (19-29-4-1, 43pts) for a pair of games Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Pregame show on The Zone @ 91.3 FM at 6:40 or online at www.thezone.fm/whl

It’s the final two meetings of the season with the Royals taking both previous encounters on the road by identical 6-2 scores Jan. 12th, and Dec. 11th.

Victoria returns home looking for back to back wins after a 2-1 shoot out victory in Prince George Saturday, earning a split after falling 6-2 the night previous.  The victory snapped a winless in 3 stretch.

Seattle wrapped up a 4 game homestand with a 1-2-1-0 record dropping their last 2, most recently a 4-3 overtime loss versus Tri City Saturday and 5-3 to Portland Friday.  The lone victory, was a 6-1 score over Prince George.

The T-birds are 8th in the West, 17 points behind the Royals.  Seattle has 3 wins in their last 10.

Victoria is 6th in the Conference, just 2 points back of Spokane for 5th, and hold a game in hand on the Chiefs.

After the 2 meetings against the T-birds, the Royals head out for a big 6 game in 10 night road trip taking them through the US and Central divisions.

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Previous Meetings This Season Victoria 6 @ Seattle 2 (Jan 12 2013) Final
Victoria 6 @ Seattle 2 (Dec 11 2012) Final



How the 2 teams match up
Seattle
Victoria
Team Record 19-29-4-1 -- 43 points 28-19-1-3 -- 60 points
Division Ranking 5th U.S. 3rd B.C.
Conference Ranking 8th Western 6th Western
League Ranking 19th 9th
Past 10 Games 3-5-2-0 7-2-0-1
Streak 0-1-1-0 1-0-0-0
Last Game 4-3 L vs Tri-City (Feb 2 2013) Final OT 2-1 W @ Prince George (Feb 2 2013) Final SO
Home Record 11-11-3-0 17-5-1-2
Away Record 8-18-1-1 11-14-0-1
GF 157  166 
GA 215  173 
PP (Overall) (40/212) 18.9 (54/246) 22.0
PP (Home) (17/100) 17.0 (26/117) 22.2
PP (Away) (23/112) 20.5 (28/129) 21.7
PK (Overall) (43/214) 79.9 (48/229) 79.0
PK (Home) (21/106) 80.2 (18/99) 81.8
PK (Away) (22/108) 79.6 (30/130) 76.9
Leading Rookie Lipsbergs (19-22-41) Hicketts (1-15-16)
Most PIM Elliot - 132 Kanzig - 115
Team PIM/GM 17.1/Game 19.7/Game
Leading Scorers Honey (14-28-42) Gogolev (19-45-64)
Lipsbergs (19-22-41) Magee (26-21-47)
Delnov (16-21-37) Crooks (23-14-37)
Theodore (12-23-35) Hodges (20-13-33)
Sheen (9-25-34) Walker (13-18-31)
Last 5 Games 4-3 L vs Tri-City (Feb 2 2013) Final OT 2-1 W @ Prince George (Feb 2 2013) Final SO
5-3 L vs Portland (Feb 1 2013) Final 6-2 L @ Prince George (Feb 1 2013) Final
6-1 W vs Prince George (Jan 29 2013) Final 6-1 L @ Kelowna (Jan 31 2013) Final
4-3 L vs Kelowna (Jan 25 2013) Final OT 6-5 L vs Prince Albert (Jan 29 2013) Final SO
8-0 L @ Kelowna (Jan 24 2013) Final 4-1 W vs Vancouver (Jan 26 2013) Final
Leading After 1st 10-4-2-1 13-4-0-1
Leading After 2nd 13-1-2-1 16-0-0-2
Tied After 1st 5-8-2-0 10-4-1-1
Tied After 2nd 4-3-1-0 2-1-1-0
Trailing After 1st 4-17-0-0 5-11-0-1
Trailing After 2nd 2-25-1-0 10-18-0-1
Out Shooting Opponents 8-8-2-0 11-4-0-1
Out Shot by Opponents 9-21-2-1 15-15-1-2
1-Goal Games 6-5-4-1 14-2-1-3
2-Goal Games 6-5-0-0 6-3-0-0
3-Goal Games 3-6-0-0 3-8-0-0