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[spanky123]

The arena now has the top 8-10 rows at the ends covered up during games. Takes about 1,500 seats out if my estimate is correct.

 

I guess the owners felt it was better to have the crowds in a smaller area so they looks bigger!

[Victoria Watcher]

The arena now has the top 8-10 rows at the ends covered up during games. Takes about 1,500 seats out if my estimate is correct.

 

I guess the owners felt it was better to have the crowds in a smaller area so they looks bigger!

 

With like a tarp?

[spanky123]

With like a tarp?

 

Correct.

[LJ]

A high school in Arizona is spending $80M on an indoor practice facility for its students so that they can practice on super hot days when other schools cancel their practices.

 

$80M to get a slight edge, you still have to play outdoors, and you have to have some practices outdoors so your students get acclimated to the hot weather.

 

Incredible.

 

My high school had a field and two wooden goalposts, no lights, no stadium, no nothing.

[aastra]

Wow, your school had a field? Must have been a fancy neighbourhood. We had gravel. And the school made us spread the gravel around before each use and then pick it all up again afterward. Because they were so cheap they didn't want any bits of gravel to go missing.

[pontcanna]

Wow, your school had a field? Must have been a fancy neighbourhood. We had gravel. And the school made us spread the gravel around before each use and then pick it all up again afterward. Because they were so cheap they didn't want any bits of gravel to go missing.

 

The Four Yorkshiremen sketch:

 

"We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, and we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of falling."

 

"Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in the corridor!"

 

"Oh, we used to dream of livin’ in a corridor! Would've been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

 

"Well, when I say 'house' it was just a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us!"

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria’s hockey roots will be front and centre this month, as the city’s two top teams dip into the archives to honour the eras that helped shape the game on the Island. The Victoria Royals (WHL) and Victoria Grizzlies (BCHL) will each roll out throwback jerseys tied to former franchises, celebrating the Salmon Kings and the Salsa during upcoming heritage nights.

Read more at: https://vicnews.com/...rowback-nights/

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Front page of the TC today.  I assume that's a paid ad.

 

 

 

 

 

Player drafts in sports are ­conducted to allow teams to stock up on young prospects. The Victoria Royals not only went off the board, but they totally ignored it, going in a completely different direction to acquire Dallas Stars prospect and veteran Western Hockey League scoring star Cameron Schmidt in pulling off the most dramatic move of the 2026 WHL draft.

Schmidt, who was selected by Dallas in the third round of the 2025 NHL draft, led the WHL in goals last season with 51 and was third in points with 100 accumulated between the Vancouver Giants and ­Seattle Thunderbirds. The Royals traded the seventh overall pick in the 2026 first round Wednesday, and fourth-round 2028 selection, to the Thunderbirds to land Schmidt, who has won gold medals with Canada at the U-18 World Championship, U-18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and U-17 World Hockey Challenge.

“Cameron is an elite talent and one of the most dynamic players in the league,” Royals GM Jake Heisinger told the Times Colonist.

“He can generate offence out of nothing. We needed a game-breaker and now we have him. We have our eligible core group returning other than Tim Runtso [defenceman ranked 53rd among North American skaters for the 2026 NHL draft], who we knew was committed to leave for the NCAA. We were disappointed to miss the playoffs but a lot of our guys took steps forward last season and we have high expectations for next season. Cameron adds to that. It is not easy to add this level of talent.”

 

https://www.timescol...t-move-12253161

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 May 2026 - 01:38 AM.