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Sunday, September 25, 2011 ★
Victoria, British Columbia
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Royals rock the house
7,000 cheer as Victoria’s new WHL team wins home opener
PHOTOS BY LYLE STAFFORD, TIMES COLONIST
Fans celebrate the Victoria Royals first goal in their home debut at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre Saturday night. The Royals beat the Vancouver Giants 5-3.
JUDITH LAVOIE
Times Colonist
As 7,000 fans, almost all
with cowbells, erupted in
earsplitting cheers when
the Victoria Royals skated
onto home ice for the first
time at Save-on-Foods
Memorial Centre Saturday
night, the free earplugs
came in handy.
Steps away from the
table where hockey fans
were given the free cowbells was a team of hearing
specialists handing out the
earplugs.
“It’s going to be quite
noisy,” said Dan Hickman
of Connect Hearing, in what
turned out to be a massive
understatement. The Royals went on to defeat the
Vancouver Giants 5-3.
Excitement ran through
the all-ages crowd as, egged
on by the ever-bouncy mascot Marty the Marmot, fans
went all out to demonstrate
that Victoria has been without a Western Hockey
League team for too long.
“We are thrilled,” said
Sharlene Lyseng, whose
Celebrants in painted faces make a bold fashion statement for Royals followers.
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Cougars, also WHL, left
Victoria in 1994.
“The WHL is our
favourite,” said Sharlene.
As the Royals scored
their first goal against the
Giants, quickly followed by
the first on-ice scuffle, it
husband, Greg, was sporting a Victoria Cougars
sweater. Over the years, the
couple has billeted more
than a dozen Cougars and
Victoria Salsa hockey players and are delighted the
WHL is back in town. The
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was clear from the overjoyed yells and cheers that
the city has some new
heroes.
Even those wearing
Giants jerseys welcomed
the Royals.
“I am so happy there’s a
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he explained, wide eyed.
“I haven’t done anything
like that before.”
Gary Harris, being pulled
along the Memorial Centre
forecourt by five-year-old
Logan and four-year-old
Dominic, simply wasn’t
moving fast enough,
according to his sons.
“Hurry, someone’s going
to take our space,” said
Dominic, pulling at his dad’s
Vancouver Canucks jersey.
One of the calmest fans
was service dog Chip the
poodle, who, ignoring the
surrounding cacophony,
positioned himself between
owner Angela Miranda and
her partner, Damian Kruz.
“It is a bit hard for him
to work here, but he’s
trained to behave no matter
what,” Kruz said.
Miranda, who works for
Island Deaf and Hard of
Hearing Centre, one of the
game’s sponsors, has
worked with Chip for about
two months and, when not
attending hockey games,
the dog alerts her to ringing
telephones or doorbells.
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WHL team from the Island.
Now we need one up in Nanaimo,” said John Manning,
as he playfully scuffled
with Marty the Marmot.
Fans were undeterred by
the lack of Royals jerseys,
making do with blue sweatshirts or whatever other
hockey jersey struck their
fancy.
Dale Toupin managed to
score a Royals sweatshirt at
the pre-season game and
figures he’ll be wearing it
for much of the winter. “It’s
going to be awesome,” he
said before the game.
“It’s going to be cool to
see where the players get
drafted from. We finally
have good, high-level
hockey in Victoria.”
None of the fans were
more excited Marc BrulotSawchyn, who was celebrating his eighth birthday with
10 friends.
“I am going to get to ride
the Zamboni tonight at the
first intermission,” said the
St. Patrick’s Elementary
School student.
The Zamboni ride was
part of a birthday package,
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