{"id":953718,"date":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953718\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:58:11","slug":"corner-brook-royals-sit-out-season-as-league-shrinks-to-three-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953718\/","title":{"rendered":"Corner Brook Royals Sit Out Season as League Shrinks to Three Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/corner-brook-royals-photo.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Corner Brook Royals Sit Out Season as League Shrinks to Three Teams\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corner Brook Royals Photo<\/p>\n<p>Senior hockey on the west coast has taken a major blow. <\/p>\n<p>The Corner Brook Royals of the Central West Senior Hockey League are going to sit this season out, partly because of the strike at the Civic Centre. <\/p>\n<p>The team posted on its Facebook site this weekend that the club is not in a position to operate a competitive program. Given the significant travel costs associated with being in the league, the Royals are not prepared to take on the financial risk of committing to season without a source of revenue. <\/p>\n<p>The closure of the Civic Centre is a major contributing factor, but not the only reason for the decision to fold up for the season. The league model itself is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, say the Royals. <\/p>\n<p>The league was scheduled to begin play next weekend with four teams, but that has now dwindled to three. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Corner Brook Royals Photo Senior hockey on the west coast has taken a major blow. The Corner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-953718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}