Victoria faces the Cougars on Friday and Saturday
It’s not quite the epically- infamous five-win 1989-90 Victoria Cougars season in the Western Hockey League. It was part of the Cougars’ five consecutive seasons of missing the playoffs before being moved to Prince George for the 1994-95 WHL season.
Their current 15 wins are the least in a full season since last year’s 23 victories. That includes the five seasons the franchise played as the Chilliwack Bruins before moving to the Island as the Royals in 2011-12. Last year’s dismal season now actually seems like a bonanza. At least the Royals took it to the final game of the regular season before losing out on the playoffs.
The Royals will get another lottery spot in the WHL prospects draft this season and can only hope they land another bright prospect as they appear to have with last year’s third-overall selection Cole Reschny. Prince George was once in this position and landed the touted Cougars pair of Koehn Ziemmer and Riley Heidt, the fourth and second selections overall, back-to-back as lottery picks in the 2019 and 2020 WHL drafts.
“It’s too early to say they will be like Heidt and Ziemmer, but they are one day going to be two-thirds of a line and the core of our team,” Royals GM and head coach Price said.
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