Giants Impressive Win – New Years Game

Road trips can be at times more of a motivation tool for any team but for others they often bring the team closer as the season approaches the trading deadline.

Locally the Giants ventured to the Island in a contest against the Royals in one of the strangest come from behind wins managing a 7-6 victory in a game that was played in front of 3,888 on New Years eve.

Early in the game they fell behind the eight ball in this one, surrendering two goals in the first 2:02 of the contest, first off a tip from Loponen and then off a shot from the slot from Trembecky.

The Royals extended their lead to 3-0 when Cole Reschny hit the post and deflected to Trembecky who hammered in his second of the game.

At the 10:26 mark of the first, Pickford made things worse when he fired one past Hood on an odd-man rush to increase Victoria’s lead to four.

Talk about strange: the G-men found themselves trailing 6-2 after 40 minutes, but the third saw someone set the alarm that saw them manage four third period goals grabbing a 7-6 win in a shootout.

The win pushes the G-men to a season-high four games improving their record to 17-13-4 while Victoria are only two points ahead of Vancouver  that sees them fall to 17-12-3-3.

The return match was New Year’s day was all Victoria in an afternoon contest played in front of 3,711 faithful supporters who were sent home disappointed with the Giants dropping a 5-2 loss.

Maybe it was the afternoon game that saw the G-men come out short or an early morning breakfast that saw the Royals grab four first goals in the first twenty minutes while the Giants managed three minors.

The Royals added their fifth goal at the 10:12 of the second while Giants London Hoilett got them on the board at 13:10 ending the second 5-1 for the Royals.

The only goal in the third came off the stick of Brett Olson who got one while on the PP at 18:52 in a game that was all Royals from the opening face-off.

The fans went home disappointed but the guy’s played as hard as they could and are looking to pull off a win in their next upcoming game on January 3rd.

That’s hockey!!