The Vees will look to stave off elimination on Tuesday night at the SOEC in Game 4 of the Western Conference Championship Series. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05PM. 

If you can’t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland. 

Series So Far: The two teams played the opening 40 minutes quite evenly in Game 1. The Silvertips got a fortunate bounce to make the game 3-1 late and then played solid, lock-down defence the rest of the way adding an empty netter to make the final 4-1. 

Game 2 saw the Vees battle back from three different one goal deficits with Ethan Weber tying the game 4-4 with 56 seconds to go to send it to overtime. It was the Silvertips who found the net on the powerplay in double OT to take the 5-4 win and 2-0 series lead. AJ Reyelts stopped 48-of-53 shots he faced in the loss. 

The Vees and Silvertips once again clashed in a tight battle in Game 3. Everett struck twice early in the third to take a 4-2 lead but Brady Birnie got the Vees within one with his team leading ninth goal of the post-season. Despite a handful of chances late, the Vees couldn’t even the score for a second straight game and fell 4-3. 

Vees Player to Watch: D Ethan Weber: Weber has scored in back-to-back games for the Vees in this series. The defenceman has four goals so far in the post-season to lead all Vees from the back end. 

Fast Fact: There have been three 3-0 series comebacks in the WHL with the most recent coming in Round 2 of 2023 with the Saskatoon Blades reverse-sweeping the Red Deer Rebels. 

 

Playoff Leading Scorers

Penticton 

Jacob Kvasnicka – 14 points (7g, 7a)

Ryden Evers – 13 points (7g, 6a) 

Louie Wehmann – 13 points (5g, 8a)

Brady Birnie – 10 points (9g, 1a) 

Matteo Danis – 10 points (1g, 9a) 

 

Silvertips

Matias Vanhanen – 18 points (9g, 9a)

Julius Miettinen – 17 points (9g, 8a) 

Landon DuPont – 16 points (4g, 12a) 

Carter Bear – 15 points (3g, 12a)

Zackary Shantz – 10 points (4g, 6a)