The Vancouver Giants were led by their young goaltender Friday night and claimed victory in the first game of the best of seven series against the Victoria Royals. While that may not be surprising in itself given the outstanding play of David Tendeck this season, even more interesting is that […]
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2017-18 Playoff Previews: Vancouver Giants vs Victoria Royals
Vancouver Giants (3rd in B.C. Division) vs Victoria Royals (2nd in B.C. Division) Season Series: Vancouver 3-4-1-2 Victoria 7-3-0-0 Leading Scorers: Vancouver Ty Ronning 84 pts Victoria Matthew Phillips 112 pts Goaltending: Vancouver David Tendeck- 25wins; ; 0.912 SV%; 3.02 GAA; 1576 SA Victoria Griffen Outhouse- […]
Americans take down Giants for second time in three nights
Kennewick, Wa. It’s been a tale of two different weekends for the Tri-City Americans (35-24-8-1, 79 pts.) Last weekend, the team was in the midst of a nasty losing streak that included two shutouts to Portland, giving up a lead to Spokane only to lose in overtime, and falling behind […]
Americans lock up playoff berth by taking down the Giants
Kennewick, Wa. With just over a week left in the regular season, the Tri-City Americans (33-24-8-1, 75 pts.) hosted the Vancouver Giants (34-24-6-3, 77 pts.) for the first time this season. Both the Americans and Giants have struggled a bit lately. Both teams have just four wins in their past […]
Giants deal Rockets fifth straight loss
It’s five in row and counting now for the Kelowna Rockets. That is, five losses in a row. The downward spiral continues and collectively, the group seems to be…ahem…at a loss to figure things out. When Tyler Benson scored at 3:56 of the overtime period, the Vancouver Giants completed a […]
Blazers take down Giants
For the second time in five nights the Kamloops Blazers and Vancouver Giants took to the ice against each other. After what we’ll call a 1 – 0 loss in Vancouver on Monday night, (Tyler Benson scored and empty net goal with less than a second left) Kamloops was looking […]
WHL recap (part two): Andrusiak nets hat trick and winner; Cougars take game over Rockets
Prince George 4 Kelowna 1 The slow spiral down to the bottom of the standings in the Western Conference for the Prince George Cougars (21-33-4-4) was interrupted Tuesday night with a 4-1 win over the division-leading Kelowna Rockets (38-19-4-2). Joel Lakusta, Jared Bethune and Brogan O’Brien all had two points, while Taylor Gauthier […]
Tips beat Giants behind strong performance from Hart
Carter Hart, who won the World Junior Championships for Canada in Buffalo at the start of 2018 has been a star with the ‘Tips ever since he broke into the league with them as a 16-year-old starter and Friday’s game was no different as Hart was once again solid between […]
Royals take down Giants 4-3 in thrilling divisional contest
The Vancouver Giants (31-19-5-3) sailed across the Straight of Georgia Saturday to face the Victoria Royals (35-21-3-2) for the final meeting of the regular season between these two clubs. In a potential playoff matchup preview, the season series has favoured Victoria who had a 6-3 record versus the Giants coming […]
Tendeck breaks hearts in Portland, leads Giants to 4-2 win
Back on November 28th, the Portland Winterhawks had a 10-game win streak halted by a superb 44-save performance form then Lethbridge Hurricanes netminder Stuart Skinner. That was a game where Portland had countless high-quality chances at key points in a tight game, but could not find a way to beat […]
