Cougars Giants Recap.
Monday night in Vancouver, the Prince George Cougars closed the book on 2013 with a 5-2 loss to the Vancouver Giants. Brett Kulak had three assists for Vancouver while Thomas Foster and Carter Popoff chipped in with a goal and an assist. Zach Pochiro and Tyler Mrkonjic responded with goals for Prince George.
Vancouver opened the scoring at 17:21 on a power play when Joel Hamilton ripped a shot home through a screen from the high slot. Brett Kulak and Alec Baer assisted.
Prince George would respond just 46 seconds later when Tyler Mrkonjic deflected home a point shot from Raymond Grewal. Martin Bobos would add a second assist on Mrkonjic’s third of the season.
The score would remain even until the 10:59 mark of the second period. Brett Kulak rushed the puck up ice across the Cougars blueline, slid a pass across to Thomas Foster on the right wing, and Foster buried a wrist shot past Cougars goaltender Ty Edmonds to make it 2-1.
12 seconds later Vancouver struck again when Carter Popoff inched his way into the left circle, and was able to sneak a backhand shot past Edmonds on the short side. Tim Traber then added a late power play marker to give Vancouver a 4-1 lead heading into the final minutes of the second.
Zach Pochiro then answered with a power play goal for Prince George which made it 4-2 after two periods. Vancouver outshot the Cougars 18-6 in the second.
The game’s final goal came in the game’s final minute. With the Cougars net empty, Carter Popoff forced a turnover in his defensive zone, fed the puck forward to Jackson Houck who then launched the puck into the empty net to seal the deal for Vancouver.
Prince George finished one-for-three on the power play while the Giants went two-for-three. The final shot total favored Vancouver: 33-29.
With the loss, the Cougars are now 14-21-2-3 and remain five points back of the Tri-City Americans for eighth place in the West. Vancouver improves to 19-14-2-5.
Next up for the Cougars is a home double-header against the Kamloops Blazers on Friday and Saturday.
Comments
Getting closer to home attendance of 1000 !
No disrespect to the players, but can this team get any worse? Oh well there’s always the next decade.
Why is there an avoidance of the word ‘loss’ or ‘lose’ in the headline when the Cougars lose?
Either they ‘fell’ or there’s a ‘recap’ or some other lame way of putting it without actually saying ‘lose’.
As one who has tried to remain optimistic, the last three games have been fugly.
Collectively out-scored 18-5.
Still top 4 in the division unless you haven’t noticed.
Mr. Article is a half full reporter.
The best and worst a Junior hockey player has to say…
NNNNOOOO- I have been drafted by the Prince George Cougars
YYYESSSS- I get every summer off
Wow another stellar year…just move already…
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