RECAP: Giants Come Back to Beat Blazers For 2nd Straight Night

Category: ArticleOctober 26, 2025

Langley, B.C. – The Vancouver Giants came back from a 3-1 deficit to top the visiting Kamloops Blazers 5-3 on Sunday afternoon at Langley Events Centre.

The win improves the Giants’ overall record to 7-7-0-1, while the Blazers fall to 6-6-1-1.

Vancouver is now 5-1-0-1 in their last seven games.

The Giants got two goals on Sunday from draft-eligible forward Tyus Sparks, plus single tallies from Jakob Oreskovic, Blake Chorney and Cameron Schmidt. Schmidt also extended his point streak to seven games (8G-6A).

Burke Hood picked up his sixth win of the season with a 22-save performance.

Josh Evaschesen, Isa Guram and Kayd Ruedig each scored for the Blazers.

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GAME SUMMARY

The Blazers got out to a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes after a goal from Evaschesen, when he took a pass from Tommy Lafreniere and buried his sixth goal of the season.

The Giant tied the game early in the second period after a shorthanded goal from Oreskovic, who beat Edmonstone five-hole after getting a pass from Chorney on a 2-on-1.

#20 ORESKOVIC GOALLLLLLLLL ‼️

Assisted by #16 CHORNEY pic.twitter.com/aYDvlNhPAD

— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) October 27, 2025

On the same Blazers power play, they restored their lead just 35 seconds later, thanks to Burnaby native Isa Guram.

Less than two minutes later, defenceman Ruedig tried to centre the puck from the behind the net, only to have it deflect off two Giants and unintentionally go into the back of the net, increasing Kamloops’ lead to 3-1.

Late in the second period, Vancouver cut the deficit to one, when Chorney beat Edmontsone on a 2-on-1 thanks to a great feed from Adam Titlbach.

WEOOOOO😮‍💨😮‍💨 #16 CHORNEY GOALLLLLLL🚨‼️

Assisted by #21 TITLBACH pic.twitter.com/iX3Tv2BzMI

— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) October 27, 2025

It didn’t take long for the Giants to find the equalizer, tying the game 3-3 just 19 seconds into the third period when Sparks deflected Lin’s point shot home.

#5 SPARKS SCORES 20 SECONDS INTO THE 3RD WEOOOOOO😮‍💨‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Assisted by #4 LIN and #8 OBOBAIFO pic.twitter.com/B8nXTeXkXg

— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) October 27, 2025

The Giants would get a power play midway through the third with the game still tied, when Obobaifo took the puck from Ryan Michael – after he fanned on a clearing attempt – and saw Schmidt heading to the net, feeding him a cross-crease pass to put the Giants up for the first time in the game.

ON THE POWERPLAY 🔥🔥 SCHMIDTYYYYY with his 10th of the season WEOOOOO ‼️

Assisted by #8 OBOBAIFO pic.twitter.com/yL2xzoYJ2Z

— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) October 27, 2025

Sparks would add an empty-net goal from his own end to make the final score 5-3.

STATISTICS

SOG: VAN —4/12/10 = 26 | KAM – 12/7/6 = 25
PP: VAN—1/2 | KAM — 1/3
Face-Offs: VAN — 32 | KAM — 22

3 STARS

1st: VAN – Blake Chorney – 1G, 1A, +1
2nd: VAN – Aaron Obobaifo – 2A, 2 SOG, +1
3rd: VAN – Tyus Sparks – 2G, 4 SOG, +2

GOALTENDING BATTLE

Vancouver: WIN – Burke Hood (22 saves / 25 shots)
Kamloops: LOSS – Logan Edmonstone (21 saves / 25 shots)

THEY SAID IT

“It was a good weekend for sure. A lot of character tonight, especially early in the game down 3-1 and to see the guys stick with it and come out with a 5-3 win: a lot of positives…what I was really happy with tonight is the push back and in the third game in three nights, the group stuck together. A lot of character.” – Giants General Manager Hnat Domenichelli

“Last weekend I saw a really good game at home against Medicine Hat. Coming into this weekend it was a little bit wild against Portland. Tonight I thought fatigue was a factor for both teams: 3-in-3. But we stuck with it. We were a lot better in the third period with our structure. [Goaltender] Burke Hood was solid again. So a lot of positive signs.” – Giants General Manager Hnat Domenichelli

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UPCOMING

The Giants host Kelowna and Prince George next weekend.

Date	Opponent	Time	Location
Saturday, November 1	Kelowna	7:00 PM PST	Langley Events Centre
Sunday, November 2	Prince George	4:00 PM PST	Langley Events Centre

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