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GAME SUMMARY:

Halaburda got the Giants on the board just 44 seconds in, after Titlbach found him streaking to the net off an odd-man rush and fed him a perfect pass that he put home on the short side to open the scoring.

Midway through the period, the Americans would even the score on an odd-man rush of their own, after Dragicevic took a drop feed from Max Curran and beat Hutchison on the glove side to tie the game 1-1.

Cash Koch gave the home side a 2-1 lead midway through the second period when he backhanded in a bouncing puck off an offensive zone face-off.

Before the second period came to a close, Thorpe caused a turnover in the neutral zone and the back check and then found a streaking Honzek in the middle of the ice, who split between the two defenders and went in on a breakaway, scoring his first of the season with a simple shot to the top corner.

Tri-City took back the lead momentarily in the third period when MacAdams scored on a power play at the 4:16 mark to make it 3-2.

Just a few minutes later, Mazden Leslie drew a penalty, which led to another penalty after Dagicevic knocked the put out of mid-air and directly out of play in his own zone, leading to a brief 5-on-3 advantage.

Vancouver made the Ams pay, first getting the equalizer from Halaburda off a mad crease scramble that began when Thorpe tried a wrap-around.

Just 1:42 after the tying goal, Schmidt used his speed to enter the zone down the right wing and took the puck all the way around the net to the goal line on the left side, before quickly spinning and firing a wrist shot from a tough angle that went off the goaltender Kelsey and in.

Halaburda would deflect a Leslie point shot less than three minutes later to make it 5-3.