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Victoria is looking for their first win of the trek after a 4-3 loss at Portland on Wednesday night, snapping their points in 6 games streak.
Alex Forsberg scored twice, as the Royals outshot the ‘Hawks 39-36, but could not find the equalizer with the goaltender pulled. Justin Paulic took his first loss with the club in 5 starts.
Spokane is winless in 6 (0-5-0-1) after falling by a pair of 2-0 scores versus Tri City and Seattle last Saturday and Sunday.
With 8 players on their injured list, the Chiefs have only scored one goal in their last 4 outings, while allowing 15 against.
It’s the fourth and final meeting, with the Royals holding a 2-1 series advantage after a pair of wins on Island in early January by 8-1 and 4-2 scores. Victoria fell in Spokane 4-2 on Nov. 26th.
The Royals are 4th in the West with 56 points, 6 up on the 7th place Chiefs, but Spokane has 3 games in hand.
The Royals have scored 37 more goals overall, but have given up 16 more than the Chiefs.
Spokane owns the 4th best penalty kill, while Victoria has the 5th most efficient power play, operating at 40% over their last 5 games (8/20). The Royals penalty killing is 11th, and has only allowed 2 goals against over their last 8 games (25/27).
The Chiefs are led in scoring by Adam Helewka with 57 points. 16 year old Kailer Yamamoto is 2nd in rookie goals with 16 and scoring with 39 points, 3rd most on his club.
The Royals are led in scoring by Austin Carroll with 59 points. Travis Brown and Joe Hicketts are 1-2 in defenseman scoring in the WHL with 47 and 45 points respectively. Victoria has 7 players with 40 or more points, while Spokane has 2.
The Royals are in the middle of 3 games in 4 nights on the road.
The 3 game US road swing wraps up Saturday night at Tri City.
- Marlon Martens
Victoria Royals vs Spokane Chiefs: Head To Head Stats Summary
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| Head to Head Record 2014-15 Regular Season | Victoria 2-1-0-0 | Spokane 1-2-0-0 |
| Head to Head Record 2013-14 Regular Season | Victoria 1-3-0-0 | Spokane 3-1-0-0 |
| Last 5 Years record between teams | Victoria 5-11-1-2 | Spokane 14-5-0-0 |
| Victoria vs. Spokane Last 5 Years record at Victoria | Victoria 3-6-1-0 | Spokane 7-3-0-0 |
| Victoria vs. Spokane Last 5 Years record at Spokane | Victoria 2-5-0-2 | Spokane 7-2-0-0 |
| Previous Meetings This Season | Spokane 2 @ Victoria 4 (Jan 3 2015) Final Spokane 1 @ Victoria 8 (Jan 2 2015) Final Victoria 2 @ Spokane 4 (Nov 26 2014) Final |
How the 2 teams match up
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| Team Record | 23-20-3-1 -- 50 points | 26-20-3-1 -- 56 points |
| Division Ranking | 4th U.S. | 2nd B.C. |
| Conference Ranking | 7th Western | 4th Western |
| League Ranking | 15th | 9th |
| Past 10 Games | 2-7-0-1 | 7-2-1-0 |
| Streak | 0-5-0-1 | 0-1-0-0 |
| Last Game | 2-0 L vs Seattle (Jan 25 2015) Final | 4-3 L @ Portland (Jan 28 2015) Final |
| Home Record | 11-10-2-0 | 16-7-3-0 |
| Away Record | 12-10-1-1 | 10-13-0-1 |
| GF | 135 | 172 |
| GA | 142 | 158 |
| PP (Overall) | (37/176) 21.0 | (50/218) 22.9 |
| PP (Home) | (11/82) 13.4 | (29/104) 27.9 |
| PP (Away) | (26/94) 27.7 | (21/114) 18.4 |
| PK (Overall) | (33/192) 82.8 | (43/213) 79.8 |
| PK (Home) | (10/89) 88.8 | (17/102) 83.3 |
| PK (Away) | (23/103) 77.7 | (26/111) 76.6 |
| Leading Rookie | Yamamoto (16-23-39) | Nagy (5-6-11) |
| Most PIM | Laday - 67 | Carroll - 93 |
| Team PIM/GM | 13.3/Game | 14.8/Game |
| Leading Scorers | Helewka (26-31-57) | Carroll (28-31-59) |
| Fram (8-32-40) | Brown (16-31-47) | |
| Brooks (16-23-39) | Hicketts (9-36-45) | |
| Yamamoto (16-23-39) | Forsberg (21-22-43) | |
| Stewart (16-14-30) | Magee (15-27-42) | |
| Last 5 Games | 2-0 L vs Seattle (Jan 25 2015) Final | 4-3 L @ Portland (Jan 28 2015) Final |
| 2-0 L vs Tri-City (Jan 24 2015) Final | 6-0 W vs Kamloops (Jan 24 2015) Final | |
| 4-1 L @ Portland (Jan 23 2015) Final | 4-3 L vs Kamloops (Jan 23 2015) Final OT | |
| 7-0 L @ Tri-City (Jan 17 2015) Final | 4-3 W @ Edmonton (Jan 18 2015) Final OT | |
| 5-3 L @ Everett (Jan 16 2015) Final | 4-1 W @ Calgary (Jan 17 2015) Final | |
| Leading After 1st | 11-3-0-0 | 12-3-0-0 |
| Leading After 2nd | 15-0-1-1 | 17-1-0-0 |
| Tied After 1st | 5-6-3-0 | 8-6-0-1 |
| Tied After 2nd | 4-3-1-0 | 5-3-2-0 |
| Trailing After 1st | 7-11-0-1 | 6-11-3-0 |
| Trailing After 2nd | 4-17-1-0 | 4-16-1-1 |
| Out Shooting Opponents | 15-10-1-0 | 15-6-1-0 |
| Out Shot by Opponents | 8-8-2-1 | 10-13-2-1 |
| 1-Goal Games | 13-5-3-1 | 10-7-3-1 |
| 2-Goal Games | 4-9-0-0 | 5-6-0-0 |
| 3-Goal Games | 3-3-0-0 | 4-3-0-0 |
