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If two out of three ain’t bad, as Meat Loaf sang, then six out of seven is even better. The league regular-season champion Victoria Royals won a half-dozen Western Hockey League Western Conference awards, announced Wednesday.

At this rate, the best-of-seven Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League championship series will be played out over 10 games.

As with nearly every Canadian soccer player, Adam Straith and Simon Thomas grew up hearing stories about 1986 and how an unlikely grab-bag of players — that included pros, amateurs and city workers from the Island such as Ian Bridge, Jamie Lowery and

The Victoria Royals (50-16-6), first in not only the Western Conference but the entire Western Hockey League, finished 17 wins better and 31 points ahead of the Western Conference eighth-place Spokane Chiefs (33-30-9).

Brad Gushue capped a successful and perfect four days on Sunday, bouncing back from a runner-up finish at the Brier the week previous to claim the top prize at the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling’s Elite 10 event at The Q Centre in Colwood.

General manager Cam Hope took to the stage Sunday and read several preseason predictions from the media, many of which had his Royals finishing last in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Division of the Western Hockey League.

Brad Gushue capped a successful week, bouncing back from a Brier runner-up finish to claim the top prize at the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling’s Elite 10 event on Sunday afternoon at The Centre in Colwood.

They’re not totally sure what to expect, but the UVic Vikes’ representatives know they will be ready to compete at the CIS-Curling sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ University Championships in Kelowna, beginning Sunday.

It’s the championship series everyone expected.

The glass slipper was finally wrenched loose. Second-to-last-place Westcastle United’s breathless run through the Vancouver Island Soccer League Jackson Cup was derailed Friday night at UVic with a loss on penalty kicks to Bays United Liquor Plus.