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GAME SUMMARY:

The Blazers opened the scoring on a power play 6:18 into the period. Defenceman Harrison Brunicke found a loose puck just outside the crease after a ricochet off the end boards and made no mistake for his third of the season.

Just past the midway point of the period, Schmidt pounced on an opportunity after a shot from Kamloops missed the net and rimmed all the way outside the zone, as the rookie lifted the stick of Matteo Koci and went in on a breakaway. Schmidt went to the backhand and tucked it home to tie the game 1-1.

With four minutes remaining in the first, the Giants took their first lead of the game, after Gronick backhanded home a loose puck outside the crease for his fifth of the season, moments after Thorpe hit the post on a 2-on-1.

The line of Gronick, Thorpe and Adam Titlbach got on the board again at the 18:36 mark of the opening period, after Leslie fired a quick shot from the right point that was deflected in by Thorpe to make it 3-1 Vancouver.

Kamloops came out hard in the second period, cutting the lead to 3-2 at the 4:19 mark thanks to Van Olm.

Just 2:41 later, Behm put home a rebound on the power play to tie the game 3-3.

In the final five minutes of the second, Blazers goaltender Dylan Ernst made a miraculous diving stick save on Aaron Obobaifo, and in the same shift, Kamloops went back the other way on a 2-on-0 and scored, after Thompson beat Brett Mirwald with a shot on the blocker side.

Behm extended the lead to 5-3 early in the third period with a shot from the slot and Van Olm added an empty net goal to make the final 6-3.