Vancouver Giants won their third consecutive game on Friday night, Feb. 21, defeating the Kelowna Rockets 5-1 at Prospera Place thanks to a two-goal, two-assist performance from Jaden Lipinski.

The win improves Vancouver's record this season to 28-21-6, while Kelowna falls to 16-33-4-2 on the season. The Giants are 4-1-0 in their last five games and 15-8-2 since Dec. 15.

Vancouver led 2-1 after 40 minutes and 3-1 after 40, before adding two more goals in the third to close it out. The G-Men are 18-6-3 when they score the first goal of the game.

In addition to Lipinski's two goals, Tyler Thorpe, Tyus Sparks and Adam Titlbach also each found the back of the net. Burke Hood made 33 saves on 34 shots to win his fourth straight start.

Kalder Varga had the lone goal for Kelowna.

Giants Associate Coach Adam Maglio called it a "real nice complete game."

Maglio described the line of Lipinski, Thorpe and Muranov as "three really big bodies that are really effective below the hashmarks and then each of them has good finish around the net. They have good chemistry out there." 

Lipinski opened the scoring for the G-Men when he and Thorpe entered the Rockets zone on an odd-man rush, with Thorpe using his speed to find Lipinski open in front of the net, who deked to the backhand and tucked it home.

Several minutes later, Lipinski returned the favour to Thorpe, hitting him with a pass in the neutral zone while killing a penalty, leading to Thorpe's fifth shorthanded goal of the season, after he flew down the right wing and beat Jake Pilon with a low shot.

Varga got one back for Kelowna just a couple minutes later to make the score 2-1 for Vancouver after one period.

Lipinski notched his goal of the contest at the 6:07 mark of the second period after Colton Roberts spotted him uncovered in the slot. Lipinski deked to the backhand yet again, this time to make it 3-1.

Sparks would score on a delayed penalty to increase the Giants lead early in the third period when he zipped a one-timer to the back of the net off a cross-ice pass from Lipinski.

Titlbach scored late on a great individual effort to deke around Will Sharpe before snapping it past the blocker of Pilon on a breakaway.

Next, Giants host Rockets at 91原创 Events Centre tonight, Saturday, Feb. 22. Puck drop is 7 p.m.

Sunday they are back on the road for a 4 p.m. game against Wenatchee.