Tavistock Royals Hockey

The 2021/22 W.O.A.A. Sr. Hockey League regular season has been declared complete.  Final rankings were determined using pts/games played.  The Royals land in 5th place and will face the 4th place Saugeen Shores in Round 1 of the AA Playoffs.  Playoffs are tentatively scheduled to begin February 4th depending on easing of provincial restrictions   AA Playoffs Ripley Seaforth Minto Saugeen Shores Tavistock Clinton    Durham Shelburne  A Playoffs Petrolia  Lucknow  Shallow Lake Creemore  Milverton 

Things aren't off to such a great New Year with the latest announcement 1/3/22 from the Government of Ontario.  With spiking cases of the Omicron variant, arena's will be closed until January 26th.  At present our expectation is that the season will just be put on pause for a few weeks before resuming with the rest of our 20 game schedule.  Stay tuned as more updates come from the league.

The Royals ended the year on a winning note, earning a 6-2 win against the Milverton Drives in Embro on Tues Dec 28th.  The win moves the Royals into 5th with place with more games in hand then 3 of the 4 teams that sit above us in the standings.  Goals came from #17 Deven Kropf, #15 Matt Zilke, #11 Adam Eddy (1st as a Royal), #18 Trevor Sauder, #25 Jeremy Munro and #9 Collin Hartwick  Thank you to the Embro Edge Minor Hockey players who joined our Embro born Royals (Geoff Killing, Jared Prekup, Jeremy Munro, Josh Munro, Chad Mcintosh, Adam Eddy and Brody Oliver) for the scrimmage after ...

The Royals vs. Drives rescheduled game will be taking place Tues December 28th 7:30pm at the EMBRO ARENA.  Due to the recent COVID restrictions that have come down from the Ontario Government, spectators will be limited to 50% of capacity.  At present, food & drink is no longer permitted in the stands so we will not be running a Blueline Club until that restriction is lifted.   Thank you to McIntosh Embryos, McIntosh Family Dentistry and Jaemar Winches for sponsoring the ice for this game and bringing WOAA Sr Hockey to the Embro community!  Reminder - proof of vaccination status and ID ...

Join us this Saturday Dec 11th at 7:30pm as we welcome the visiting Durham Thundercats!  These 2 clubs met earlier in the season, ending in a 6-0 victory for the Royals behind the stellar goaltending of Zach Shomphe.  We're expecting a hungry Cats team at the arena tomorrow and our boys will be ready and waiting to continue our climb up the standings following our 7-2 home win vs. Petrolia last weekend.   We hope to see you at the rink! Blueline will be open and ready to serve!