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Dear hockey fans/partisans du jeu de la dipsy-doodle, On behalf of sa国际传媒/le grand pink bit sur la map, I would like to welcome/bienvenue you to Victoria, home to the world junior championships.

Tickets for world juniors games in Victoria are nearly sold out thanks to a big change in marketing philosophy.

As the marquee venue, Rogers Arena in Vancouver has scored the motherlode in the form of the host Canadian team, for the 2019 International Ice Hockey Federation world junior championship tournament.

With the world tournament starting in Victoria and Vancouver on Boxing Day, eyes on Quinn Hughes, Ty Madden

Because of the mild, if wet and grey, winter climate, the Island has built its international sporting reputation more in the Summer Olympics, because it is one of the few places in sa国际传媒 where athletes can train outdoors all year.

Having witnessed a doozy during training camp in Greater Victoria, sa国际传媒鈥檚 junior national hockey team plans to bring a Pacific storm of its own to the 2019 IIHF world U-20 championship.

A notable winter of rugby fixtures on the Island began Saturday with the professional Seattle Seawolves taking on the Vancouver Island Crimson Tide in an exhibition at Westhills Stadium in Langford. The match was in progress at press time.

If there was a dictionary of North American rugby, there would be a picture of Phil Mack beside the entry on 鈥渓eadership.

A crowd of 6,226 at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, rising for a standing ovation as the seconds ticked off, sent the Canadian junior national hockey team across the strait in rousing fashion.

Having played junior hockey for the Seattle Breakers and in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks, head coach Tim Hunter is no stranger to the kind of Pacific storm his Canadian team players were witness to Thursday.