Vancouver Giants lose for third straight game to Everett Silvertips, looking to unite against Victoria Royals tonight

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The Everett Silvertips never lost their structure. The Vancouver Giants did it briefly and ended up paying for it.

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Everett (13-0-0-1) was the tight-knit defensive team they announced was coming in, playing a near-perfect game on the road in a 4-1 win over Vancouver (7-6-1-0) at the Events Center. from Langley on Friday night.

It felt like a playoff game much of the night. However, Vancouver seemed to get too individual at some points, venturing out of their team play.

Everett went up 3-1 at 3:27 pm of the third when an Olen Zellweger knuckle ball from within the blue line eluded Vancouver goalkeeper Jesper Vikman. The Silvertips added an empty netter Austin Roest at 7:59 p.m.

Vikman, the Vegas Golden Knights prospect, was solid in the Vancouver net for much of the night, highlighted by a glove to save Roest as he lay at the 9:36 mark of third. He made 21 saves for the game, while Koen Macinnes recorded 18 for Everett.

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Vancouver will look to respond tonight (7pm, Sportsnet 650), when they face the Victoria Royals (1-11-2-0) in the LEC. Vancouver has lost three games in a row and four of five.

“There were moments when we played very well, with rhythm, in the second period. It was just a matter of keeping it, ”Giants coach Michael Dyck said after Friday’s game. “I don’t think they changed their way of playing in the third. Sometimes we did. Maybe we flipped too many discs instead of keeping the disc facing north. “

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Adam Hall, with his eighth goal of the season, the team’s best, cut Everett’s lead to 2-1 when he redirected a Payton Mount shot that passed MacInnes at 8:02 of the second.

Aidan Sutter and Matthew Ng had staked a 2-0 lead for Everett.

The game marked a return to action for Vancouver winger Zack Ostapchuk (lower body injury), who had missed four straight games, and Hall, a winger who came in last place in last Saturday’s loss by 2-1 against the Kamloops Blazers with one imposed by the league. – Suspension of the game for more interference than he had picked up in a 6-1 loss to Kamloops on Friday.

In Vancouver, defender Alex Cotton was missing (upper body injury). He hadn’t practiced all week.

The Giants celebrate one of their Legends Nights tonight, in honor of the Estevan Bruins who moved to New Westminster 50 years ago and became the New Westminster Bruins. As part of the proceedings, the Giants are expected to have seen former Bruins Ernie “Punch” McLean, Stan Smyl, and Mark Lofthouse, as well as former Kamloops / Seattle Breaker boss Ryan Walter and winners of the Los Angeles Memorial Cup. Giants 2007 Brett Festerling and Kenndal McArdle.

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