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The Victoria Grizzlies, leading all Canadian Junior A teams, placed four players on Central Scouting’s final ranking for the 2019 NHL draft released Monday. Grizzlies captain Alex Newhook was ranked No.

If once was good, then twice and thrice have to be that much better. Alex Horvath made it a triple-header championship season in curling as part of Cameron de Jong’s Victoria rink which captured the 2019 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Fred Cyclone Taylor Cup, named after a Stanley Cup champion and sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ legend of another era, is the ultimate prize in provincial Junior B hockey. And an elusive one.

The Victoria Highlanders have signed their first two players for the 2019 United Soccer League-2 (former Premier Development League) season.

Singapore, the site in 2017 of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s only men’s rugby sevens World Series tournament championship, brings back memories of glory for the Langford-based national side.

Locker clear out is the most melancholy day for all but one team — the champion.

Jack Shupe, always a gentleman when the game of hockey was rougher, coached the Victoria Cougars to their greatest glory days in the Western Hockey League. Shupe died Wednesday night in Medicine Hat, Alta., at the age of 89.

Goaltender Griffen Outhouse will go into the books as one of the three-greatest Victoria Royals — along with Flames prospect Matthew Phillips and Red Wings prospect Joe Hicketts — over the first eight years of team history on the Island.

The Victoria Cougars and Campbell River Storm both have a home-Island edge at the 2019 Fred Cyclone Taylor Cup provincial Junior B hockey championship tournament, in terms of travel, but it’s the Storm that has true home-ice advantage.

To say the outlook appears grim for the Victoria Royals would be the understatement of the Western Hockey League post-season.