RECAP: Seattle Thunderbirds Power Play Comes Alive in Win Over Giants

Category: ArticleNovember 8, 2025

Kent, WA – The Seattle Thunderbirds scored four second period goals in a 7-3 win over the Vancouver Giants on Saturday night at accesso ShoWare Center.

The loss drops the Giants’ overall record to 8-10-0-1, while the Thunderbrids improve to 7-8-1-0.

Vancouver was trailing 5-0 entering the third period, before getting a goal each from Ty Halaburda, Aaron Obobaifo and Adam Titlbach, but the damage had been done. The Giants power play factored in to the result too, going 0-for-6, while the T-Birds went 2-for-6 with the man advantage.

Braeden Cootes had a career-high six-point night for Seattle on two goals and four assists. Simon Lovsin scored twice too, while Ashton Cumby, Antonio Martorana and Matej Pekar provided the other goals for the Thunderbirds.

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GAME SUMMARY

The only goal of the opening frame was scored by Cootes on a one-time blast from the left circle on the power play.

It was the second period when Seattle took control of the game.

Cumby’s wrist shot from the left point made it 2-0 at the 7:01 mark of the period, before Martorana made it 3-0 one second after a power play expired on a tap-in from the crease.

Pekar blew a one-timer past Hood on another Seattle power play to make it 4-0 with 7:04 left in the second period.

Lovsin went to the net in the dying seconds of the frame and had the puck ricochet off his skate and in to make the score 5-0 for Seattle after 40 minutes.

The Giants made things interesting in the third period.

Halaburda scored 68 seconds in to get the G-Men on the board.

Ty Halaburda gets the first goal of the night for the Giants! Assisted by Sparks and Mittelsteadt! pic.twitter.com/VX2Hp6P2sR

— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) November 9, 2025

Obobaifo made it 5-2 6:01 into the third off a great feed from Cameron Schmidt.

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— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) November 9, 2025

Unfortunately Seattle responded quickly after that to make it 6-2, when Lovsin buried his second of the night.

Titlbach made it 6-3 with 8:48 left in regulation, but even with that goal, it was clearly too little, too late for the Giants.

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— Vancouver Giants (@WHLGiants) November 9, 2025

Cootes scored into the empty net for good measure to make it a 7-3 final score.

STATISTICS

SOG: VAN —4/10/14 = 28 | SEA – 8/11/7 = 26
PP: VAN—0/6 | SEA — 2/6
Face-Offs: VAN — 20 | SEA — 43

3 STARS

1st: SEA – Simon Lovsin – 2G, 5 SOG, +3
2nd: SEA – Matej Pekar – 1G, 2A, 4 SOG, +1
3rd: SEA – Braeden Cootes – 2G, 4A, 5 SOG, +3

GOALTENDING BATTLE

Vancouver: LOSS – Burke Hood (14 saves / 19 shots) + Kelton Pyne (5 saves / 6 shots)
Seattle: WIN – Marek Sklenicka (25 saves / 28 shots)

UPCOMING

The Giants host the Everett Silvertips on Monday.

Date	Opponent	Time	Location
Monday, November 10	Everett	Langley Events Centre	7:00 PM
Saturday, November 15	Edmonton	Langley Events Centre	7:00 PM

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