Cameron Schmidt had the lone goal for the Giants, his league-leading 18th of the season, as Prince George Cougars downed Vancouver Giants 7-1 at the CN Centre on Saturday, Nov. 10.
Koehn Ziemmer led the way for Prince George with a hat-trick, while Borya Valis scored twice, with Terik Parascak and Lee Shurgot rounding out the scoring. Joshua Ravensbergen stopped 29 of 30 in the Prince George net, as the Giants out-shot the Cougars 30-26, including 25-16 in the first 40 minutes.
"We get down by three early on and credit to our guys, they stuck with it," said Giants Associate Coach Adam Maglio.
" We out-chanced them 5-on-5 tonight, so there are things we certainly liked there. Obviously some areas we want to clean up going into tomorrow."
Valis scored 14 seconds into the game, which was followed up by goals 1:20 apart from Parascak and Shurgot to make it 3-0 Cougars less than seven minutes in.
The Giants got some life back when Schmidt buried his 18th of the season off a pass from Zimmer on a 2-on-1 low in the Cougars zone.
Unfortunately that was the closest the Giants would get in the game.
Ziemmer scored his first of the night just 48 seconds after Schmidt's 3-1 goal, to restore the home side's three-goal advantage.
Neither team scored in the second period.
In the third period, Ziemmer scored twice more to complete the hat-trick and make the score 6-1, before Valis added insult to injury with his second of the game and 10th of the season.
G-Men drop to 9-5-2 on the season, while the Cougars improve to 10-4-3-2.
Both teams go at it again this afternoon, 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at the CN Centre.
