The Giants continued to impress with a SO 5-4 win over the visiting Tri-City Americans in front of 2,588 fans in WHL game action September 30th in an afternoon game played at the Langley Events Center.
The Giants improved to 3-1 to start the season as they managed to get the game winner in the fourth round of the shootout from Brayden Watts as Giants “tender” David Tendeck sealed the victory for Vancouver.
Tri-City opened the scoring on a goal by Bobby Russell at the 3:42 mark and managed to take a 2-0 lead on a goal by Adam Beckman (12:01) giving the visitors the lead.
The Giants got their first at 14:57 as James Malm managed to get his fourth of the season with helpers going to Jared Dmytriw and Justin Sourdif.
The Giants out-shot Tri-City by a 9-6 margin after one, but were trailing by a 2-1 margin after the first.
Tri-City managed to extend their lead at 11:18 to 3-1 on Russell’s second of the game while on the PP but Vancouver’s Bowen Byram beat Weatherill cutting the lead to 3-2.
Vancouver tied the game at three at 15:38 as Bulych of the second only to see the Americans Finley beat Tendeck giving them a 4-3 lead heading into the second intermission.
The third period proved to the giants best as they pressured Weatherill several times who came up huge while Giants David Tendeck gave his team the chance to come back.
The game tying goal came in the final minute with only 45 seconds remaining that saw Brayden Watt tie the game four sending it to overtime.
Overtime failed to settle anything so the teams were heading to a shootout, which was eventually won by the Giants.
Brayden Watts managed to grab his second of the game that proved to the game winner in this contest on a soggy afternoon in the lower mainland.
Also scoring for the Giants was Davis Koch, while lone SO goal for Tri-City went to Eli Zummack.
The Giants out-shot Tri-City by a narrow margin of 27-23 and the loss see’s Tri-City fall to 2-2 on the season.
Vancouver hits the road for three games visiting Kelowna (Wednesday) as well as a two game road trip to Prince George before returning home facing off against the Kamloops Blazers October 12th at 7:30 pm at the Langley Events Center.
