Vancouver Giants dropped their fourth straight game as the Kelowna Rockets posted a 4-1 win before 3,317 at the 91原创 Events Centre (LEC) Friday night, Jan. 20.
Kelowna opened the scoring 1:09 into the game, as Carson Golder shoveled home a rebound early.
In the second period, Grady Lenton increased the lead to 2-0 with a deflection shot with 4:46 left in the middle period.
Ty Thorpe got the Giants on the board at 4:08 into the third period with a shot from the high slot, assisted by Dylan Anderson. Thorpe would be named second star of the game
Just over eight minutes into the period, Kelowna鈥檚 Gabriel Szturc scored a shorthanded goal on a breakaway to push it to 3-1.
Then, Golder added his second of the night on the power play with 2:41 left.
Final Score: Vancouver 1 鈥� Kelowna 4
馃摴 "We didn't bury the opportunities we had."
鈥� Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants)
Head Coach Michael Dyck post game after a 4-1 Rockets win Friday night.
Giants were 0-8 on the power play, a fact that frustrated Giants Head Coach Michael Dyck.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 like anything about our power play right now,鈥� Dyck said after the game, 鈥渁bsolutely nothing.鈥�
Dyck said the team showed good energy at the start, but didn鈥檛 sustain it.
鈥淲e didn鈥檛 bury the opportunities we had,鈥� Dyck commented.
鈥淲e didn鈥檛 generate enough on offence, we didn鈥檛 generate enough on our power play,鈥� Dyck went on to say.
鈥淲e鈥檝e got do a better job of getting to the net, getting pucks to the net, do a better job in front of our goaltender,鈥� Dyck added.
Vancouver travels to Kelowna tonight (Saturday, Jan. 21 ) to face the Rockets for a second time.
Puck drop is 7:05 p.m.
After that, the two teams will play twice more, on Friday, Jan. 27 at LEC at 7:05 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 28 in Kelowna at 7:05 p.m.
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馃摴 "We didn't bury the opportunities we had."
鈥� Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants)
Head Coach Michael Dyck post game after a 4-1 Rockets win Friday night.
