Vancouver Giants got off to a good start, but finished with a 4-2 road game loss to league-leading Everett Silvertips on Saturday night at Angel of the Winds Arena.

Giants had a strong first period but trailed 2-1 after 20 minutes, before the Silvertips pulled away with two second period goals. Vancouver got a third period tally from captain Mazden Leslie to make it 4-2, but that was as close as they'd come. Ty Halaburda scored the first period goal for the G-Men, also on a power play.

Giants associate coach Adam Maglio throught Everett "elevated" in the second period, and Vancouver didn't.

"Was it our best 60-minute consistent game? No, it wasn't. Were we hard enough on the walls? No, we weren't the whole game. But there were some positives there and we fought right until the end," Maglio commented.

"I thought they elevated [in the second period] and I just thought we kind of stayed the same. As these games go on, and you're playing a really good team, you've got to elevate each period. You've got to be ready to go and get better. I thought they did and we didn't."

Giants started well, out-chancing the Silvertips early and appearing to get on the board just before the five-minute mark when Thorpe beat goaltender Raiden Legall from the left circle, but the goal was immediately waived off due to goaltender interference.

A Silvertips power play then gave the home side the lead at the 11:03 mark of the first period, after Tarin Smith's shot went off his teammate Shantz and in.

Jamieson would step in from the blueline off a face-off and score from the slot on the backend 2:35 later to make it 2-0 for Everett.

The Giants responded less than a minute after that on a power play of their own, when Halaburda tapped in a pass from Leslie for his 24th goal of the season.

In the second, Rymon would make it 3-1 with a hard snap shot from the slot midway through the period, and then Busch centered the puck to McKenzie three minutes later to make it 4-1 on McKenzie's 30th goal of the season.

Vancouver made it a 4-2 game on Leslie's 17th goal of the season at the 7:10 mark of the third period, after he beat Legall on the short side from the left circle.

Thorpe drew a kneeing penalty with less than six minutes remaining to give the Giants another power play opportunity, but they couldn't get any closer, as the score of 4-2 held up as the final.

Giants are back home at 91原创 Events Centre Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. to play Wenatchee.