It was a game that started so ugly, but ended so wonderfully for the Prince George Cougars on Sunday night in Seattle. After surrendering three unanswered goals to start the game, the Cougars responded with six unanswered of their own, en route to a 6-4 victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds. The victory moves the Cougars to within two points of the eighth placed Tri-City Americans. Zach Pochiro led the way with two goals and an assist for the Cougars while Ty Edmonds was outstanding stopping 39 of the 40 shots he faced in relief.

By the 6:48 mark of the first period, Seattle had a 3-0 lead. Jaimen Yakubowski, Alex Delnov and Calvin Spencer all scored goals just 1:36 apart in the first period and Seattle held a commanding advantage in the game.

Adam Beuekboom started the game, but was pulled in favor of Ty Edmonds, and from the goaltending change on, the Cougars were a different team.

Troy Bourke helped narrow the deficit to 3-1 when he snuck home his 25th of the season past Danny Mumaugh off a pass from Todd Fiddler.

Fiddler then got into the act himself when he scored a breakaway goal in the final minute of the first to make the game a 3-2 score. That play all started with a great defensive play by Jansen Harkins who won a battle along the wall in his own zone, and then he lifted a beautiful pass through traffic onto the tape of Fiddler who then did the rest in alone.

After one the Cougars were outshooting the T-Birds 18-15, but trailed 3-2.

Zach Pochiro tied the game at three off a Seattle turnover in front of their own goal. Pochiro's first of the game came at 4:58 of the period, and gave the Cougars the equalizer. Under a minute later the Cougars made it 4-3 when Jansen Harkins raced across the blueline and beat Mumaugh with a low wrist shot to the stick side, and all of a sudden a 3-0 deficit had turned into a 4-3 lead.

Klarc Wilson and Zach Pochiro then added consecutive goals, giving the Cougars six straight, and a 6-3 lead through two periods.

Late in the second the Cougars got into some penalty trouble, and had to kill off four straight penalties. Leading the charge in that regard was Cougars goaltender Ty Edmonds who was brilliant, turning aside all 22 shots fired his way in the first and the second period.

Jaimen Yakubowski got Seattle within two thanks to a breakaway goal at 7:45 of the third, but Ty Edmonds did the rest, turning aside 17 of the 18 shots he faced in the third period to help secure the Cougars their 25th victory of the season.

Prince George finished the game one-for-seven on the power play and they killed off all five of Seattle's power play attempts. Seattle badly outshot the Cougars 49-28, but Ty Edmonds was not going to be denied. He stopped 39 of the 40 shots he faced and was named first star for his efforts.

Todd Fiddler, Troy Bourke, Klarc Wilson, Zach Pochiro and Jansen Harkins all had multi-point games for the Cougars who are now just two points back of a playoff spot in the Western Conference standings.

After three games in three nights, the Cougars finally get a day off before heading to Portland for a matchup with the Winterhawks on Tuesday night.