Prince George Cougars in Victoria this weekend to play injury-riddled Royals
Just ahead of their weekend games with the Prince George Cougars, the Victoria Royals joined in a swirling week of trades in the Western Hockey League, but to reinforce the present, not build for the future such as other fellow low-in-the-standings teams Edmonton, Prince Albert and Spokane.
The defending league-champion Oil Kings also went the rebuild mode by trading NHL fourth-round Las Vegas Golden Knights draft pick Jakub Demek, a 19-year-old forward who played for Slovakia in the 2022 world junior championship, to Kamloops for the Blazers’ first-round pick in the 2023 WHL prospects draft and a conditional second-round selection in 2024, a conditional third rounder and a fourth rounder in 2026.
Price, however, is not willing at this point to pull the plug on this season to revamp for the future.“We have to be careful not to over-react because of our injury situation. When we look at who has not been in our lineup this season — the top-third of our roster has been out — we believe we will be very competitive when everyone becomes available.”
But Price staunchly believes, and is banking on, this being a far different Royals team when Laroque, Schuurman, Almquist and Wilson get back in the lineup abetted by the addition of Thacker and forward Robin Sapousek, the latter who the Royals selected seventh overall in the 2022 CHL import draft. Sapousek has come to terms with Victoria after opening with 18 points in 11 games with HC Karlovy Vary of the Czech Extraliga.
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