Every player wants to be the guy who scores the goal on Teddy Bear Toss night, the junior-hockey tradition in which the first tally by the home team triggers an avalanche to the ice of stuffed toy animals for charity.
The visiting Tri-City Americans will want to delay that moment for the Victoria Royals as long as possible tonight at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. They are not Grinches, but they are here to win a Western Hockey League game, which is the whole point of sports at this level. The Americans, who missed the playoffs last season, have been doing a fairly good job of that in a rebound campaign in which they are 14-14 overall and a hottish 7-3 over the last 10 games.
It also hasn’t hurt the Americans’ fortunes to have the talented and mobile six-foot-two blueliner Lukas Dragicevic on the roster. The native of Richmond is ranked for the first round of the 2023 NHL draft and played for Canada, alongside Royals Brayden Schuurman and Kalem Parker, in the 2022 IIHF world U-18 championship in Germany.
The Royals get a bit of a break this weekend with two Tri-City players, goaltender Tomas Suchanek and forward Adam Mechura, away on national-team duty with Czechia for the IIHF 2023 world junior championship tournament beginning on Boxing Day in Moncton, N.B., and Halifax, N.S. “We have to stay focused on the process,” said Victoria GM and head coach Dan Price, following a loss Wednesday night at the Memorial Centre, against the Vancouver Giants.
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