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The most important number from the Super Subway Series game in Victoria on Wednesday night wasn’t the score.
Yes, Team WHL beat the Russians 2-1, marking the 12th victory in 13 games for the westerners.
The number that really mattered, however, was the attendance -- 6,695.
Victoria is home to a BCHL franchise, the Grizzlies, who play out of Bear Mountain Arena, and the ECHL’s Salmon Kings, who play out of the 7,000-seat Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, the same building in which Wednesday’s game was played.
Ron Rauch of the Victoria Times Colonist spent some time chatting with fans on Wednesday and his story is right here.
WHL officials have long said they would love to move back to Vancouver Island -- the Cougars left Victoria for Prince George after the 1993-94 season -- but would only seriously entertain such thoughts were they able to have two franchises on the island.
That, of course, means Victoria and Nanaimo. The latter is home to the BCHL’s Clippers, who are owned in part by Bill Gallacher, the owner of the Portland Winterhawks. Nanaimo, however, doesn’t have a facility that meets WHL standards and, despite ample talk over the past number of years, there doesn‘t seem to be one on the drawing boards.
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The Portland Winterhawks and Swift Current Broncos have confirmed a trade that was reported here early, early on Thursday morning.
And, yes, it was a one-for-one exchange involving two veteran defencemen, with Travis Bobbee heading east for Eric Doyle.