Puck drop at 7:05
both nights.
Radio: The Zone @ 91.3 fm Victoria
Online: http://cjzn.streamon.fm/
Victoria
advanced after defeating the Spokane Chiefs in 6 games, while Kelowna
got past Kamloops in 7, the final
in overtime.
Last year, the Royals fell in 5 games to the Rockets in
round two, and the franchise looks to advance to the third round for the first
time in it’s history.
Kelowna went on
to win the WHL Championship in 2015, but fell in the final game of the Memorial
Cup against the Oshawa Generals in overtime.
REGULAR SEASON
Victoria (50-16-3-3,
106 pts) finished the regular season with 2 more wins and 6 more points than Kelowna
(48-20-4-0, 100pts).
The Royals were ranked 4th in the CHL Top 10, and crowned
WHL regular season champions. The Rockets
received Honourable Mention, finishing 2nd in the West, and 3rd overall.
Victoria
scored the 3rd most goals, while Kelowna
netted the 4th most. The Royals were the
stingiest team over the 72 games, while the Rockets allowed the 6th fewest. Kelowna
held the 2nd best power play and 10th ranked penalty kill, while Victoria
was 6th most efficient with the man advantage overall and 2nd best when down a
man.
The Royals won the most games on the road in the regular
season, and 4th most at home, while the Rockets won the 3rd most at home and on
the road.
Down the stretch, Victoria
won their last 13 regular season games, while Kelowna
won 5 of their last 10 going into the post season.
Alex Forsberg led the Royals in regular season scoring with
91 points including 60 assists. Tyler
Soy was their goal leader with 46, while Matthew Phillips was the Western
Conference Rookie of the year, leading all freshman in goals (37) and points 76.
Tyson Baillie was the Rockets scoring leader, leading in
both goals (43), and assists (52) for 95 points. Justin Kirkland (67pts) and Dillon Dube (68)
round out the top 3.
HEAD TO HEAD
The Royals bested the Rockets in the season series with a
record of 5-2-1-0. The Royals won 3
times on the road, and twice at home.
Victoria
outscored Kelowna 29-19 over the
eight meetings, and won the last two encounters, both on the road (7-4 and 4-1).
The Royals power play went 14/52 (26.9%), while the Rockets
went 7 for 35 (20%).
Matthew Phillips led the way for Victoria
with 16 points in 8 games (5g 11a). Alex
Forsberg had 14 (7g 7a) and Jack Walker 12 (2g 2a). Tyler Soy netted 6 goals and 4 assists for 10
points.
Netminder Coleman Vollrath went 4-2, while rookie goalkeeper
Griffen Outhouse was (1-0-1-0).
Forward Justin Kirkland provided 7 points over the 8 game
season series for Kelowna (4g 3a). Michael Herringer went 2-4 over 6 starts with
a 4.13 gaa / 0.877 save %, and Jackson Whistle went(1-1).
2016 PLAYOFFS
Victoria
outscored Spokane 21-19 in round 1,
and were 6/25 (24%) on the power play and 16/21 (76.2%) on the penalty kill.
Kelowna was
outscored 17-15 by Kamloops, were
22/6 (7.7%) on the power play and 26/32 (81%) on the penalty kill.
The Royals were 2-1 at home and on the road. The Rockets were 3-1 and home, and 1-2 on the
road.
Victoria comes
in with 320 playoff games experience, while Kelowna
possesses 538 games of post season experience led by Tyson Baillie’s 53 games.
The Royals are led by Tyler Soy and Jack Walker with 9 pts
each (5g 4a).
Thomas Soustal (WJ Czech Rep) has 6pts (3g 3a), while Rourke
Chartier (WJ CAN) has 5 points in 7 games (2g 3a).
Former Royals netminder Michael Herringer is (4-3) with 2
shut outs for the Rockets, with a 2.39 gaa / 0.930 save %. Back up Brodan Salmond has appeared in two
games, playing a total of 51 minutes, allowing 2 goals on 30 shots.
Victoria
started overage netminder Coleman Vollrath for the first 3 games of the
playoffs, posting a record of 2-1.
Rookie Griffen Outhouse who lead all freshman in Save % and GAA in the
regular season has played the last 3 games, going 2-1 with a 2.51 gaa and 0.901
save %.
8 Royals played in their first WHL playoff games.
DRAFTED
Kelowna’s Justin
Kirkland is a 3rd round pick of the Nashville Predators in 2014, Chartier
a 5th round selection of the San Jose Sharks, Nick Merkley a
first round pick of the Arizona Coyotes, and defenseman Devante Stephens is a 5th
round pick by Buffalo.
Victoria
defenseman Chaz Reddekopp (7th LA ’15), and Joe Hicketts (Signed –
DET).
ABSENT
Rockets overage netminder Jackson Whistle (lower body,
indefinitie) and forward Nick Merkley (lower body, indefinitie) will miss the
remainder of the season.
Royals Captain Joe Hicketts (undisclosed) has missed the
last 5 games, and forward Vladimir Bobylev (undisclosed) did not play in Game 6
against the Chiefs.
Series Schedule:
Thursday, April 7th – Kelowna
@ Victoria – 7:05 p.m.
Saturday, April 9th – Kelowna
@ Victoria – 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12th – Victoria
@ Kelowna – 7:05 p.m.
Thursday, April 14th – Victoria
@ Kelowna – 7:05 p.m.
Friday, April 15th – Kelowna
@ Victoria – 7:05 p.m. (if necessary)
Sunday, April 17th – Victoria
@ Kelowna – 5:00 p.m. (if necessary)
Tuesday, April 19th – Kelowna
@ Victoria – 7:05 p.m. (if necessary)
- Marlon Martens
Victoria Royals vs Kelowna Rockets: Head To Head Stats
Description
|
Result
|
|
| Head to Head Record 2015-16 Regular Season | Victoria 5-2-1-0 | Kelowna 3-5-0-0 |
| Previous Meetings This Season: Victoria 7 @ Kelowna 4 (Mar 16 2016) Final Victoria 4 @ Kelowna 1 (Jan 30 2016) Final Kelowna 2 @ Victoria 1 (Jan 16 2016) Final OT Kelowna 3 @ Victoria 4 (Jan 15 2016) Final Victoria 4 @ Kelowna 5 (Jan 2 2016) Final Kelowna 1 @ Victoria 5 (Nov 28 2015) Final Kelowna 3 @ Victoria 1 (Nov 27 2015) Final Victoria 3 @ Kelowna 0 (Oct 9 2015) Final |
How the 2 teams match up
Kelowna
|
Victoria
|
|
| Team Record | 48-20-4-0 -- 100 points | 50-16-3-3 -- 106 points |
| Division Ranking | 2nd B.C. | 1st B.C. |
| Conference Ranking | 2nd Western | 1st Western |
| League Ranking | 3rd | 1st |
| Past 10 Games | 5-4-1-0 | 10-0-0-0 |
| Streak | 2-0-0-0 | 13-0-1-0 |
| Last Game | 10-1 W vs Vancouver (Mar 19 2016) Final | 4-1 W vs Everett (Mar 19 2016) Final |
| Home Record | 27-6-3-0 | 26-6-1-3 |
| Away Record | 21-14-1-0 | 24-10-2-0 |
| GF | 269 | 281 |
| GA | 218 | 166 |
| PP (Overall) | (68/278) 24.5% | (75/329) 22.8% |
| PP (Home) | (37/144) 25.7% | (43/180) 23.9% |
| PP (Away) | (31/134) 23.1% | (32/149) 21.5% |
| PK (Overall) | (65/308) 78.9% | (41/259) 84.2% |
| PK (Home) | (30/154) 80.5% | (21/136) 84.6% |
| PK (Away) | (35/154) 77.3% | (20/123) 83.7% |
| PP vs. Opp. | (7/35) 20% | (14/52) 26.9% |
| PK vs. Opp. | (14/52) 73.1% | (7/35) 80% |
| Leading Rookie | Thurkauf (18-27-45) | Phillips (37-39-76) |
| Most PIM | Stadel - 108 | Reddekopp - 102 |
| Team PIM/GM | 13.9/Game | 11.6/Game |
| Leading Scorers | Baillie (43-52-95) | Forsberg (31-60-91) |
| Kirkland (31-36-67) | Soy (46-39-85) | |
| Dube (26-40-66) | Walker (36-48-84) | |
| Linaker (18-32-50) | Phillips (37-39-76) | |
| Johansen (10-39-49) | Bobylev (28-39-67) | |
| Last 5 Games | 10-1 W vs Vancouver (Mar 19 2016) Final | 4-1 W vs Everett (Mar 19 2016) Final |
| 5-3 W @ Vancouver (Mar 18 2016) Final | 4-2 W @ Everett (Mar 18 2016) Final | |
| 7-4 L vs Victoria (Mar 16 2016) Final | 7-4 W @ Kelowna (Mar 16 2016) Final | |
| 6-4 L @ Tri-City (Mar 13 2016) Final | 4-3 W vs Prince George (Mar 13 2016) Final | |
| 6-1 W @ Spokane (Mar 12 2016) Final | 6-2 W vs Prince George (Mar 11 2016) Final | |
| Leading After 1st | 22-1-1-0 | 33-3-2-2 |
| Leading After 2nd | 33-0-3-0 | 39-2-1-1 |
| Tied After 1st | 18-2-3-0 | 12-9-1-1 |
| Tied After 2nd | 11-3-1-0 | 7-5-2-2 |
| Trailing After 1st | 8-17-0-0 | 5-4-0-0 |
| Trailing After 2nd | 4-17-0-0 | 4-9-0-0 |
| Out Shooting Opponents | 22-4-2-0 | 40-7-3-3 |
| Out Shot by Opponents | 24-13-2-0 | 9-9-0-0 |
| 1-Goal Games | 20-4-4-0 | 8-5-3-3 |
| 2-Goal Games | 11-6-0-0 | 9-8-0-0 |
| 3-Goal Games | 11-7-0-0 | 15-2-0-0 |
Victoria Royals
| # | Player | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Matthew Phillips | 8 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 2 | -1 |
| 16 | Alex Forsberg | 8 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 3 |
| 9 | Jack Walker | 8 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 14 | -3 |
| 17 | Tyler Soy | 8 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 4 | -2 |
| 2 | Joe Hicketts | 7 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | Vladimir Bobylev | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 2 |
| 29 | Chaz Reddekopp | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 27 | Jared Dmytriw | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | Logan Fisher | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 10 | Ryan Peckford | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | Dante Hannoun | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 24 | Regan Nagy | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | -1 |
| 8 | Ethan Price | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | -3 |
| 3 | Ryan Gagnon | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 |
| 4 | Ralph Jarratt | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Brayden Pachal | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Ty Westgard | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 12 | Keith Anderson | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 28 | Marsel Ibragimov | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 30 | Griffen Outhouse | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Coleman Vollrath | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Scott Walford | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | Jordan Wharrie | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Player | GP | W | L | OTL | SL | MIN | GA | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | Coleman Vollrath | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 358:59 | 14 | 2.34 | 0.901 |
| 30 | Griffen Outhouse | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 123:42 | 5 | 2.43 | 0.922 |
Kelowna Rockets
| # | Player | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Justin Kirkland | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -1 |
| 19 | Dillon Dube | 8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 |
| 10 | Nick Merkley | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | -1 |
| 24 | Tyson Baillie | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | -1 |
| 25 | Cal Foote | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | -2 |
| 26 | Cole Linaker | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| 7 | Lucas Johansen | 8 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 27 | Calvin Thurkauf | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 0 |
| 14 | Rourke Chartier | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | -2 |
| 15 | Tomas Soustal | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 |
| 9 | Tanner Wishnowski | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | -1 |
| 28 | Joe Gatenby | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | Kole Lind | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | -1 |
| 11 | Jordan Borstmayer | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Rodney Southam | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 0 |
| 4 | Gordie Ballhorn | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 22 | Braydyn Chizen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -3 |
| 18 | Tate Coughlin | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Danny Gatenby | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Michael Herringer | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Jonathan Smart | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 3 | Riley Stadel | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -4 |
| 21 | Devante Stephens | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | -8 |
| 1 | Jackson Whistle | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Player | GP | W | L | OTL | SL | MIN | GA | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jackson Whistle | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 119:14 | 3 | 1.51 | 0.950 |
| 30 | Michael Herringer | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 362:49 | 25 | 4.13 | 0.877 |
