Royals host Kamloops on Friday night
Rudyard Kipling wrote, albeit in a complete other setting, that East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. Well, the twain at least met in the Western Hockey League on Wednesday night as the two East-West geographic bookend franchises of the league played their once-every-season game, alternating every other year between Manitoba and the Island.
This meeting between clubs, located 2,180 kilometres apart, ended in the most peculiar of fashions before 2,925 fans at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. The Royals rattled what looked to be the possible winning goal off the cross-bar and the puck ricocheted out to centre ice, where it was picked up by Jaxon Jacobson of the Wheat Kings, who happened to just be coming out of the penalty box behind the Victoria defence.
Victoria opened scoring in the second period with one of the goals of the season as Kenta Isogai fed Hayden Moore, who scored short-handed on the back hand after making a sublime move beat the last Brandon defender. The Wheaties tied it through Joby Baumuller with Carter Klippenstein drawing an assist. Both those forwards are ranked 146th and 121st, respectively, by Central Scouting for the 2025 NHL draft. Brayden Boehm put Victoria ahead again on the power play.
Victoria forward Cole Reschny, ranked for the second round of the 2025 NHL draft, missed his second consecutive game and is day-to-day with a lower-body injury. The Wheat Kings were again missing forward Roger McQueen, the No. 5 overall ranked North American skater for the NHL draft, who has been out since scoring eight goals over the first eight games of the season.
The Royals prepare to meet the Western Conference 10th place Kamloops Blazers on Friday and Saturday nights at the Memorial Centre.
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