2015-16 Season Hockey Memories

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Royals return deepest team in years

Woodbury coach Wes Bolin saw his players’ maturity in one-on-one meetings after last season.

He saw it in the offseason, too, and even when the team started practice this month.

“There’s a big difference between boys playing hard and young men playing hard,” he said. “They were competitive last year, but they are playing competitively this year with a sense of smarts that young players don’t always play with in games.”

Royals drop a pair of conference contests

Royals coach Wes Bolin said after the win over Park a couple weeks ago that he knew the games against Mounds View and Forest Lake would provide a measuring stick of sorts for his team.

Woodbury clearly has room to improve after losing both of those games last week.

Tree-lighting by the Royals Captains at Bielenberg Sports Center outdoor ice rink

GAME SCHEDULE 2015-16

Coach Bolin's Google Drive

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Roayls Logo in the Locker Room

Royals earn shocking win in final seconds

Royals boys hockey coach Wes Bolin called a timeout with 63 seconds left, his team trailing 2-1, even though it had vastly outshot the rival Wolfpack.

“We don’t tell them anything special,” Bolin said. “You try to get pucks and bodies to the net. We had been telling our guys that the entire game. There were no magic words or anything like that. It was all about getting bodies to the net.”

A few seconds later, Woodbury defenseman Marshall Tschida fluttered a puck on net that found its way past Park goaltender Dylan Coulter.

Royals start regular season on high note

A couple weeks into the season and Royals boys hockey coach Wes Bolin sees a lot that makes him happy. He also knows the there is still tons of room for improvement among his most experienced team in years.

Woodbury stands 2-1-0 on the season. It scored wins against Hastings and Hopkins and dropped a tight contest with Chanhassen last weekend.

Royals split pair of contests

Royals boys hockey coach Wes Bolin has preached the importance of consistency this season.

It’s clear after last week that that’s still a work in progress.

Woodbury had an up-and-down week that featured a tough conference loss to White Bear last Tuesday followed by a gritty nonconference win over New Prague a few days later.

Royals see success over break

There wasn’t much of a holiday break for the Royals boys hockey team. It opened up play at the South St. Paul Holiday Tournament a day after Christmas, wrapped up that competition with two more games, and then played a game the day after New Year’s Day.

It finished its recent stretch 2-2 with impressive wins against New Prague and South St. Paul and losses to Bloomington Jefferson and St. Michael-Albertville.