GRIZZLIES 3 SILVERBACKS 2
SCHWARTZ IS THE HERO!
There may have only been seven penalties throughout the entire game but it was special teams that resulted in the final winning goal of the game where the Grizzlies would take the game 3-2 over the Salmon Arm Silverbacks.
It was a quiet period in the first until 19:02 of the first when Victoria boy Cole Pickup from Rory McGuire and Jay Mackie would pop the first goal of the game.
Again it was with less than a minute remaining of the second period when the Grizzlies would score again to take the 2-0 lead, Myles Fitzgerald from Gerry Fitzgerald and Jesse Schwartz.
During the third period the Silverbacks would score two unanswered goals to tie the game at two a piece but as Taylor Maruya would go off for two minutes for roughing the Grizzlies would score on the powerplay by Jesse Schwartz assisted by Gerry Fitzgerald and Jacob Kearley.
Grizzlies now sit in second place in the Island Division with five points behind Powell River Kings.
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GRIZZLIES 4 SMOKE EATERS 4
It was a see-saw battle back and forth for the full 60 minutes, and when 60 minutes wasn’t enough OT was the call which still solved nothing as the game ends in a tie between the Trail Smoke Eaters and the Victoria Grizzlies.
First period the Smoke Eaters would get on the board first but just before the end of the first Storm Wahlrab from AP Samuel McMullen and Jacob Kearley would get the game tied up at one a piece.
During the second period more action from both sides, first the Smoke Eaters would score two unanswered goals but then the Grizzlies would battle back at 8:40 Cole Pickup would net one, then to tie the game Dante Hahn from Meek and McLellan would get one past Dustin Nikkel.
Third period would be the show of the special teams as Smoke Eaters would score on the powerplay at 6:47, followed shortly after by Myles Fitzgerald scoring the powerplay to keep the game noted at four a piece.
Overtime was the call which solved nothing, the game ends in a 4-4 tie with both teams pulling away with one point each.
Alec Dillon kicked away 28 shots, while Storm Wahlrab earned himself second star of the game.
