Victoria preparing for Wednesday’s WHL prospects draft
The near-capacity crowd of close to 7,000 over the weekend to see out another Victoria Royals losing Western Hockey League season shows their fans are hungry for more than what they have been getting the past three years. And deserving of it.
“It’s a good question, and it’s true we haven’t proven anything yet,” conceded Royals GM and head coach Dan Price.“It takes three-to-six years in major-junior hockey and Seattle, Prince George and Kamloops are at the top of that five-six-year cycle and we just completed year three and will be entering our fourth next season,” said Price.“It was two-way dialogue and the words were sincere,” said Price.
Among the key returnees will be 2022 Canada U-18 players Brayden Schuurman and Kalem Parker, the former a forward invited to the Boston Bruins rookie camp last fall, and the latter a defenceman ranked as the 113th North American skater for this year’s NHL draft. Parker continued to evolve individually on the blue line and make an impression on NHL scouts, even if team success has proved elusive.
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