Royals win a crazy game against Red River

First Period: Derek scores the first goal of the game with a nice dangle unassisted. Two minutes later Joel scores on a nice passing play assisted by Derek and Tanner. Five seconds later Kyle score sniping the puck upstairs assisted by Jordan and Mason. Two minutes later Joel scores his second goal of the period off rebound on Sean's point shot. Red River responds with a short handed breakaway goal to cut the to three but the Tanner responds with point shot blast to give the Royals a 5-1 lead. Second Period: red River scores on the power play with a deflect point shot. Right after that Red river scores a goal on the door step to cut the lead to two. Just over a minute later they score again this time on cross ice one timer. Just overt a minute again red river scores with a one timer assisted by the boards. 5-5 but the royals were not backing down Tanner scores off of Sean's point pass to give the Royals the 6-5 lead. Third Period: Evan scores on redirection of Sean's point shot also assisted by Derrick. 7-5 but with under a minute to go Red River score again with a power play one timer on the doorstep to make it a one goal game. yet the Royals would battle it out and win a crazy 7-6 game Key Points: The Royals scored 5 goals in the first period and had lots of shots also lots of great hits especially Conner's behind the net Areas for improvement: The Royals are going to really want to work on defencive coverage in front of the net and defending in there zone for both forwards and defence. Still scoring in spurts. Three Stars: 1. Sean 2. Tanner 3. Joel

Royals lose hard fought battle against Assiniboia West

Prior to the game the Royals were feeling the pressures after losing an ugly game to Assiniboia West and want to win to make everyone forget. First Period: Assiniboia opens the Scoring point shot rebound goal. Under a minute later Matt ties up the game with a top corner point shot assisted by Joel. With slightly over a minute to go Derrick scores a power play goal assisted by Lucas and Alex to give the Royals 2-1 lead. Second Period: Assiniboia ties up the game up after picking off a sloppy defencive pass. Later that period Assiniboia would take the lead of a break away goal to be up 3-2. Third period: Assiniboia forwards out skates a Royal defender, he passes it in front for a one timer goal. Final score 4-2. Key Points: The Royals were able to get the lead in the game for a while and were 1/3 on the power play. Areas for improvement: The offence is still scoring in spurts and needs to more consistently. Also the high slot and point coverage could us improvement. 3 stars: 1.Matt 2.Derrick 3.Jordan

Second Half Points

players
Name/Number/Goals/Assist

Connor #2 0-1
Matt #3 1-1
Mason #4 0-1
Alex #6 0-2
Zach #7 1-2
Tanner #9 5-3
Jordan #11 4-5
Kyle #12 1-2
Evan #13 3-3
Derek #14 1-3
Derrick #16 2-3
Sean #17 0-4
Joel #19 4-2
Lucas #91 7-2

Goalie
Name/Number/Record/shutouts
Nick #33 15-10-1 2

Royals finally get back in the wins column with a great finish against Waverly Heights

Last time the Royals played against Waverly Heights they won playing a fantastic game of hockey but they have dropped four straight regular season games, but they have just came of an incredible gold medal win against varsity view. First Period: Lucas opens up the scoring with a great offence set up goal assisted by Evan and Tanner. Soon after the Storm score a breakaway goal off a very bad defencive turn over. On the ensuing face off the Storm score a top shelve goal from the blue line (Oops) but Tanner ties it up with a great rebound goal assisted by Connor. Second Period: The Storm take the lead when there wide open forwards one times it by Nick for the lead Third Period: Derrick tie up the game with just over three minutes to go when he picks off a defence to defence pass and snipes the puck right underneath the crossbar. One Minute later Joel scores right of the draw assisted by Jordan to give the Royals to the lead and the 4-3 win. Key Points: The royals have now won two straight against a team they could not beat all last year. Most first period goals for in ten games! Areas for improvement: There were a handful of people floating in our defencive zone which gave the Storm lots more chances. Also players were having trouble playing there defencive duties because most were chasing the puck. Three stars: 1. Derrick 2. Tanner 3. Joel

Royals Win the Christmas Challenge Two Years in a Row!

Prior to the game the Royals felt like they had the edge. They felt that Varsity View maybe a little bit over confident due to the fact that they have won every match so far this year. But the Royals were determined to end there streak. First Period: No goals and the teams seemed evenly matched. Second Period: Joel opens up the scoring for the Royals with a great power play goal assisted by Alex. just over thirty seconds later Mason scores with a quick wrist shot assisted by Evan. Just Under four minutes left in the period Derrick scores on the power play unassisted. Third Period: At six eighteen Tanner scores assisted by Sean to give the Royals a four goal lead. varsity view would score two goals to make it close in the last minute but you need to play sixty minutes of hockey to win a game and that is what the Royals were able to do to earn the 4-2 victory and there second consecutive gold medal in the Gateway Christmas Challenge. Key Points: The Royals power play has been clutch scoring 8 power play goals in 4 games, Throughout this entire tournament the Royals have aloud only nine goals against (lower than there final game of the regular season). Areas For improvement: The Royals need to scores more goals in the first period (only one goal for in the first period all tournament) Three Stars: 1. Derrick 2.Nick 3. Tanner and Evan.

Royals win in semi finals against Il de Chein and are in the Finals

Last time the Royals played Il De Chien they tied but the Royals felt and knew that they outplayed Il De Chien, only through unnecessary penalties called against the Royals seemed to force a tie. First Period: Il De Chein opens the scoring on a questionable "Loose Puck" call by the ref when it appear to be covered by Nick but was stripped of him and shot into the net. Second: Period: This time Il de Chein ran into some penalty troubles when Derek slips a five hole shot past The Elks net minder to tie the game assisted by Derrick. Twenty seven seconds later Lucas scores a breakaway five hole goal assisted by Mason to give the Royals the Lead Third Period: The royals defence and goalie shut down all possible game tying goals to give the Royals a 2-1 victory and a birth in the gold medal game against Varsity View in The Gateway Christmas Challenge. Key Points: The royals have a loud only one goal in three out of the four tournament games, The Royals have now scored 5 goals in last minute of the period the season. Areas for improvement: The offence needs to be more consistent. Three stars: 1. Derek 2. Nick 3. Lucas