Vancouver Giants made the most of their opportunities on Friday night, Jan. 17, at the 91原创 Events Centre, scoring twice in each period en route to a 6-3 win over the Tri-City Americans.
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With the win, Vancouver has hopped Tri-City for sixth place in the Western Conference.
Giants surrendered the first goal, but quickly came back with two of their own. They extended their lead from 2-1 to 4-1 in the second period, before putting the game out of reach with two more goals in the final stanza.
Cameron Schmidt led the way offensively for Vancouver with two goals 鈥� his 30th and 31st tallies of the season 鈥� with four other teammates finding the back of the net: Maxim Muranov, Mazden Leslie, Brett Olson and Ty Halaburda.
Giants defenceman Ryan Lin had three assists, giving him the Giants franchise record for points by a 16-year-old defenceman at 33 (3G-30A).
Lin surpasses David Musil, who had 32 points at 16-years-old in 2009-10.
Goaltender Burke Hood improved to 9-6-4 on the season with a 36-save performance.
Tri-City got a pair of goals from Carter MacAdams and a first period goal from Max Curran.
Giants head coach Manny Viveiros like the outcome, but not the part where the team eased up.
"We get up 4-1, and then we took our foot off the gas pedal, and they came back," Viveiros said.
"I'm very happy with the result and for the most part how we played the game, but when we look back on it 鈥� and the players know too 鈥� we got loose in some areas."
Giants forward Cameron Schmidt said being a year older has made a difference.
"[With] more experience, I'm just able to find those open areas and my teammates have been doing a great job of finding me in the open ice and I'm able to put it in the net," Schmidt said.
The game got heated late in regulation as Tri-City's Jake Gudelj was given a five-minute major for boarding in the neutral zone. Vancouver proceeded to take two separate penalties during the five-minute major as the teams primarily played four-on-four during the five-minute penalty.
That also included MacAdams scoring his second goal of the night. After Jackson Smith danced around a couple Giants in the neutral zone, he stopped along the right-wing boards and fed the puck to MacAdams. He wound up for a slap shot and blasted the puck past Hood with 2:34 remaining.
Three Tri-City (Jake Gudelj, Crus Pavoa and Terrell Goldsmith) and one Giants player (Ty Halaburda) were sent off with 10-minute game misconduct penalties during a fractious third period.
This afternoon, Sunday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. G-Men host Brandon at 91原创 Events Centre.
