Grizzlies Take A Bite Out Of Spruce Kings
Saturday, November 10, 2012 @ 9:48 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The Prince George Spruce Kings are finding it tough going in the month of November. The Kings dropped their third straight game Saturday night, falling 7-3 to the Island Division-leading Victoria Grizzlies at the Coliseum.
It was the most one-sided loss suffered by the Spruce Kings this season. Victoria scored four goals with the man advantage in completely outplaying the Kings through the final 40 minutes of the contest. The Spruce Kings scored twice on the power play in the first period, Lyndon Martell and Mitch Eden finding the back of the net. But the Grizzlies came back each time, former Spruce King Myles Fitzgerald scoring at 18:25 on the power play when it looked like the home club would skate off the ice with a lead. Not so, as it ended 2-2. Victoria took five of six minors in the period.
The second was all Grizzlies, with one power play and two even strength goals to chase Kirk Thompson from the Prince George net and take a 5-2 lead after two. Each team took two minors.
Chase Kaiser and Mark McLellan scored twice on the power play in the third to make it a 7-2 game and then things got chippy before Brad Ryan scored with three minutes left for the Spruce Kings to close out the scoring. Fourteen penalties were handed out in that third period, seven to each club. Amazingly the Spruce Kings outshot Victoria 42-29 in dropping their first game in regulation on home ice this season.
The loss drops the Kings’ record to 11-6-1 and 2. All five teams in the Mainland Division played Saturday night. First-place Chilliwack and last-place Langley each picked up a pair of points. The Chiefs edged Penticton 5-4 to move to 30 points. Surrey lost 3-2 in overtime to Vernon so they remaind tied with Prince George at 25 points. And Langley doubled Coquitlam 4-2, so the Rivermen move up to 21 points in the cellar, but are now just two points behind the Express.
The Spruce Kings head out on the road through the Interior Division next weekend. The play in Trail Friday night, West Kelowna Saturday evening and Salmon Arm Sunday afternoon before heading home for a 7-game home stand.
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