[{"id":886,"date":"2026-04-17T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=886"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:21:36","slug":"game-5-round-2-preview-vees-vs-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/game-5-round-2-preview-vees-vs-cougars","title":{"rendered":"Game 5, Round 2 Preview: Vees vs Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees look to take a 3-2 series lead over the Cougars tonight at the SOEC. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05PM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you can\u2019t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Series So Far: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees struggled to match the physicality of the Cougars in Game 1 and ultimately fell 4-1 despite outshooting Prince George 35-20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two shorthanded goals against in the first period put the Vees behind the eight ball in Game 2 and they couldn\u2019t climb out of the hole eventually falling 6-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees fell down 2-0 in Game 3 but were able to will their way back into the game and the series led by Louie Wehmann, Brady Birnie and Matteo Danis who all had three points in a 5-3 win.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees kept their cool in a tightly contested Game 4 on their way to a 5-2 victory. Penticton used four straight powerplay goals to pull away late in the fourth game. Vees Captain Nolan Stevenson had the game winner, his second goal of the post-season. AJ Reyelts stopped 27-of-29 shots he faced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vees Player to Watch: F <\/b><b>Ryden Evers: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evers notched a goal and two assists in Game 4. He now sits at 11 points in the playoffs and has registered a point in seven of his nine post-season games including three multi-point games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fast Fact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Vees will look to be the first team in the series to win a home game as the road teams have been dominant so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Playoff Leading Scorers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Penticton:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Kvasnicka &#8211; 12 points (6g, 6a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryden Evers &#8211; 11 points (6g, 5a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louie Wehmann &#8211; 10 points (5g, 5a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matteo Danis &#8211; 8 points (1g, 7a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady Birnie &#8211; 7 points (6g 1a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cougars:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brock Souch &#8211; 18 points (6g, 12a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terik Parascak &#8211; 16 points (7g, 9a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kooper Gizowski &#8211; 13 points (4g, 9a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Shurgot &#8211; 9 points (4g, 5a)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carson Carels &#8211; 8 points (0g, 8a) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Vees look to take a 3-2 series lead over the Cougars tonight at the SOEC. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05PM.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0 Series So Far: The Vees struggled to match the physicality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/17102120\/PGC_7123-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":884,"date":"2026-04-15T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=884"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:49:52","slug":"vees-even-series-with-game-4-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/vees-even-series-with-game-4-win","title":{"rendered":"Vees Even Series With Game 4 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees opened the scoring for the first time in the series and battled back to pick up a 5-2 victory in Game 4 against the Cougars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The series is now even at two games apiece.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louie Wehmann continued his hot play as of late opening the scoring with his fifth of the post-season. The Cougars however, would answer with two of their own to make the score 2-1 after 20 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees struck for their first of four straight powerplay goals as Ryden Evers capitalized on a rebound to make the score 2-2 after 40 minutes of play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougars unravelled in the third period and the Vees capitalized. Nolan Stevenson, Ethan Weber and Brady Birnie all found the back of the net with powerplay goals late to give the Vees the 5-2 victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>GAME STATS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Shots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 35<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 29<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- Louie Wehmann, Ryden Evers, Nolan Stevenson, Ethan Weber, Brady Birnie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Kooper Gizowski, Lee Shurgot<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Power Plays:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 4\/8<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 1\/3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Goaltending<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- AJ Reyelts &#8211; 27\/29<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Joshua Ravensbergen &#8211; 30\/35<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Up Next:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Vees return home hosting the Cougars in Game 5 Friday night at the SOEC. Puck drop is 7:05PM. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Vees opened the scoring for the first time in the series and battled back to pick up a 5-2 victory in Game 4 against the Cougars.\u00a0 The series is now even at two games apiece.\u00a0 Louie Wehmann continued his hot play as of late opening the scoring with his fifth of the post-season.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/15224858\/PGC_7173-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":882,"date":"2026-04-15T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=882"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:25:47","slug":"game-4-round-2-preview-vees-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/game-4-round-2-preview-vees-cougars","title":{"rendered":"Game 4, Round 2 Preview: Vees @ Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees are on the road for Game 4 looking to even the series at two games apiece with the Prince George Cougars. Puck drop is 7:00PM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Series So Far: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees struggled to match the physicality of the Cougars in Game 1 and ultimately fell 4-1 despite outshooting Prince George 35-20. Noah Milford scored his first WHL playoff goal in the Game 1 loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two shorthanded goals against in the first period put the Vees behind the eight ball in Game 2 and they couldn\u2019t climb out of the hole eventually falling 6-2. Louie Wehmann had a goal and an assist in the loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees fell down 2-0 in Game 3 but were able to will their way back into the game and the series led by Louie Wehmann\u2019s three assist performance and Brady Birnie chipping in two goals. Matteo Danis also registered his first goal of the post-season and added two assists. AJ Reyelts made some massive saves to keep the game at 2-0 early in the second period as the Vees earned a 5-3 victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vees Player to Watch: Louie Wehmann<\/b><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wehmann has five points in the last two games and sits second in Vees playoff scoring with nine points in eight games. Wehmann was the catalyst in the Vees comeback in Game 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fast Fact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Game 3 was Louie Wehmann\u2019s first three point night of his WHL career. He has two or more points in three of his last four playoff games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Playoff Leading Scorers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Penticton:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Kvasnicka &#8211; 10 points (6g, 4a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louie Wehmann &#8211; 9 points (4g, 5a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryden Evers &#8211; 8 points (5g, 3a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matteo Danis &#8211; 8 points (1g, 7a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady Birnie &#8211; 6 points (5g 1a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cougars:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brock Souch &#8211; 17 points (6g, 11a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terik Parascak &#8211; 15 points (7g, 8a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kooper Gizowski &#8211; 12 points (3g, 9a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Shurgot &#8211; 8 points (3g, 5a)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carson Carels &#8211; 7 points (0g, 7a) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Vees are on the road for Game 4 looking to even the series at two games apiece with the Prince George Cougars. Puck drop is 7:00PM.\u00a0 Catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0 Series So Far: The Vees struggled to match the physicality of the Cougars in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/15102530\/PGC_7065-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":880,"date":"2026-04-14T22:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=880"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:15:13","slug":"vees-earn-game-3-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/vees-earn-game-3-victory","title":{"rendered":"Vees Earn Game 3 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Penticton Vees used a strong final 40 minutes to rally for a 5-3 victory over the Cougars in Prince George.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougars now hold a 2-1 series lead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the third straight game Prince George opened the scoring as they found the back of the net twice in the first period to make it 2-0 after 20 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees would come to life in the second as Louie Wehmann drove wide and took the puck to the net before Matteo Danis deposited his first goal of the post-season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Penticton struck again 10 seconds later with Ryden Evers beating Joshua Ravensbergen under the arm to tie the game 2-2 heading into the final frame.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady Birnie gave the Vees their first lead of the series in the third, taking a pass from Wehmann on a two-on-one and firing the puck home to make it 3-2. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Cougars tied the game, Wehmann again found Birnie at the back post with a beautiful pass that Birnie finished off for his second of the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Kvasnicka found the empty net late to make the final 5-3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>GAME STATS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Shots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 29<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 21<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- Brady Birnie (2), Matteo Danis, Ryden Evers, Jacob Kvasnicka<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Aiden Foster, Brock Souch, Dmitri Yakutsenak<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Power Plays:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 0\/2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 1\/2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Goaltending<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- AJ Reyelts &#8211; 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Puck drop is scheduled for 7:00PM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Series So Far: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees struggled to match the physicality of the Cougars in Game 1 and ultimately fell 4-1 despite outshooting Prince George 35-20. Noah Milford scored his first WHL playoff goal in the Game 1 loss. Ryden Evers had a team-high six shots and went 20\/29 in the faceoff dot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two shorthanded goals against in the first period put the Vees behind the eight ball in Game 2 and they couldn\u2019t climb out of the hole eventually falling 6-2. Louie Wehmann had a goal and an assist in the loss. He\u2019s now up to six points in the playoffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vees Player to Watch: F <\/b><b>Diego Johnson: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnson<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had two goals and three assists against the Cougars this season including some late-game heroics on back-to-back nights in Prince George earlier in the year. He will have a big group cheering him on for Games 3 and 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fast Fact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ryden Evers has the most faceoff wins in the WHL playoffs with 116 so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Playoff Leading Scorers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Penticton:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Kvasnicka &#8211; 9 points (5g, 4a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryden Evers &#8211; 6 points (4g, 2a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louie Wehmann &#8211; 6 points (4g, 2a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matteo Danis &#8211; 5 points (0g, 5a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady Birnie &#8211; 4 points (3g 1a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cougars:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brock Souch &#8211; 15 points (5g, 10a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terik Parascak &#8211; 14 points (7g, 7a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kooper Gizowski &#8211; 11 points (3g, 8a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Shurgot &#8211; 8 points (3g, 5a)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arsenii Anisimov &#8211; 6 points (2g, 4a) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Vees are on the road for Game 3 looking to get their first win of the series in Prince George against the Cougars. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:00PM.\u00a0 Catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0 Series So Far: The Vees struggled to match the physicality of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/14095250\/172A1095.jpg",2100,1400,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":876,"date":"2026-04-11T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=876"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:24:48","slug":"vees-fall-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/vees-fall-in-game-2","title":{"rendered":"Vees Fall In Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Prince George Cougars took a 2-0 series lead on Saturday night with a 6-2 victory at the SOEC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prince Goerge took early momentum with two shorthanded goals in the first period off the sticks of Terik Parascak and Tyrone Sobry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougars would add a powerplay goal and a late goal five-on-five to make it 4-0 after the opening 20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dawson Seitz picked up his first of the playoffs which was the lone goal in the second making it 5-0.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Cougars made it 6-0, the Vees found the back of the net as Chase Valliant made a great pass from behind the net to Louie Wehmann who buried his fourth of the playoffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady Birnie added a late marker to make the final 6-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>GAME STATS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Shots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 25<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- Louie Wehmann, Brady Birnie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Tarek Parascak (2), Tyrone Sobry, Jett Lajoie (2), Dawson Seitz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Power Plays:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 0\/3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 2\/4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Goaltending<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- AJ Reyelts &#8211; 7\/11, Ethan McCallum &#8211; 12\/14<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Joshua Ravensbergen &#8211; 40\/42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Up Next:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The two teams head Prince George for games three and four starting Tuesday at 7:00PM. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Prince George Cougars took a 2-0 series lead on Saturday night with a 6-2 victory at the SOEC.\u00a0 Prince Goerge took early momentum with two shorthanded goals in the first period off the sticks of Terik Parascak and Tyrone Sobry.\u00a0 The Cougars would add a powerplay goal and a late goal five-on-five to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/11222347\/172A1206.jpg",2100,1400,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":871,"date":"2026-04-11T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=871"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:58:20","slug":"game-2-round-2-preview-vees-vs-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/game-2-round-2-preview-vees-vs-cougars","title":{"rendered":"Game 2, Round 2 Preview: Vees vs Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees look to even their second round series with the Prince George Cougars at one game apiece tonight at the SOEC. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05PM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you can\u2019t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Series So Far: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees struggled to match the physicality of the Cougars in Game 1 and ultimately fell 4-1 despite outshooting Prince George 35-20. Noah Milford scored his first WHL playoff goal in the Game 1 loss. Ryden Evers had a team-high six shots and went 20\/29 in the faceoff dot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vees Player to Watch: F Ryden Evers: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evers is second on the team in playoff goals (4) and points (6) and will be a big part of the Vees returning to form if they are going to even the series tonight in Game 2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fast Fact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Vees lost back-to-back games just six times during the regular season but only once did it happen since the Christmas break.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Playoff Leading Scorers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Penticton:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Kvasnicka &#8211; 9 points (5g, 4a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryden Evers &#8211; 6 points (4g, 2a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louie Wehmann &#8211; 4 points (3g, 1a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samuel Drancak &#8211; 4 points (1g, 3a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nolan Stevenson &#8211; 4 points (1g 3a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cougars:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brock Souch &#8211; 13 points (5g, 8a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terik Parascak &#8211; 11 points (5g, 6a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kooper Gizowski &#8211; 10 points (3g, 7a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Shurgot &#8211; 7 points (3g, 4a)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arsenii Anisimov &#8211; 5 points (2g, 3a) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Vees look to even their second round series with the Prince George Cougars at one game apiece tonight at the SOEC. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05PM.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0 Series So Far: The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/11095807\/172A0449.jpg",2100,1400,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":869,"date":"2026-04-10T22:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=869"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:02:24","slug":"vees-drop-game-1-to-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/vees-drop-game-1-to-cougars","title":{"rendered":"Vees Drop Game 1 To Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Prince George Cougars opened the scoring and didn\u2019t look back on their way to a 4-1 Game 1 victory over the Vees on Friday night at the SOEC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougars stole a puck at the Vees line and went in on goal with Jett Lajoie beating AJ Reyelts five-hole to make the score 1-0 after 20 minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougars would add another on the powerplay late in the second period off the stick of Tarek Parascak to send the game 2-0 to the final frame.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prince George pushed the game further out of reach just 43 seconds into the third and added an empty netter to make it 4-0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noah Milford would end Joshua Ravensbergen\u2019s shutout bid with 1:02 remaining. It was Milford\u2019s first WHL playoff goal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>GAME STATS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Shots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 35<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 20<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- Noah Milford<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Jett Lajoie, Tarek Parascak (2), Lee Shurgot\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Power Plays:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- 0\/2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- 1\/1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Goaltending<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vees- AJ Reyelts &#8211; 16\/19<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cougars- Joshua Ravensbergen &#8211; 34\/35<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Up Next:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Game 2 goes Saturday night back at the SOEC for a 7:05PM puck drop. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Prince George Cougars opened the scoring and didn\u2019t look back on their way to a 4-1 Game 1 victory over the Vees on Friday night at the SOEC.\u00a0 The Cougars stole a puck at the Vees line and went in on goal with Jett Lajoie beating AJ Reyelts five-hole to make the score&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"article","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":false,"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"featured_image":["https:\/\/media.chl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/04\/10220216\/172A0538.jpg",2100,1400,false],"hide_from_app_feed":false,"video":false,"gallery":null,"ht_game_id":0,"target_video":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":858,"date":"2026-04-10T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/?p=858"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:49:49","slug":"game-1-round-2-preview-vees-vs-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-vees\/article\/game-1-round-2-preview-vees-vs-cougars","title":{"rendered":"Game 1, Round 2 Preview: Vees vs Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Penticton Vees kick off their Round 2 series with the Prince George Cougars tonight from the SOEC. Puck drop is 7:00PM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you can\u2019t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees used their depth and smothering play in the offensive zone to dispatch the Seattle Thunderbirds in five games. The Vees hit the 40+ shot mark in all but one game in the series. Penticton went 3-0 at home and 1-1 on the road in the opening series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougars took down the Spokane Chiefs in six games in the first round. They used a dominating powerplay to go 52.9% striking on nine of 17 opportunities in the opening round, guiding them to the first round series victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vees Player to Watch: F Jacob Kvasnicka: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees forward continued on from his dominating regular season registering nine points (five goals and four assists) in five games in Penticton\u2019s first round meeting with the Thunderbirds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fast Fact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Brady Birnie will play in his 20th career WHL playoff game tonight. He has six goals and four assists in his 19 post-season games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Head to Head:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Vees defeated the Cougars in five of six regular season contests. Penticton outscored the Cougars by a 25-15 margin but three of the six games were decided by one goal including two going to overtime. Each team won one game in extra time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Playoff Leading Scorers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Penticton:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Kvasnicka &#8211; 9 points (5g, 4a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryden Evers &#8211; 6 points (4g, 2a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louie Wehmann &#8211; 4 points (3g, 1a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samuel Drancak &#8211; 4 points (1g, 3a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nolan Stevenson &#8211; 4 points (1g 3a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cougars:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brock Souch &#8211; 11 points (5g, 6a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kooper Gizowski &#8211; 8 points (3g, 5a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terik Parascak &#8211; 8 points (3g, 5a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arsenii Anisimov &#8211; 5 points (2g, 3a)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Shurgot &#8211; 5 points (2g, 3a) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Penticton Vees kick off their Round 2 series with the Prince George Cougars tonight from the SOEC. Puck drop is 7:00PM.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t make it down to the SOEC, catch all the action on Victory+, Summit 800 AM and Summit 98.5 Summerland.\u00a0 The Vees used their depth and smothering play in 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Sign Jackson Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Penticton Vees announced today the signing of Canadian defenceman Jackson Schneider for the 2026-27 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schneider comes over from the USHL where he spent the 2025-26 season with the Waterloo Black Hawks registering 15 points in 52 games played.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Calgary, AB native stands 6-FOOT and 179 lbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJackson is a hard-nosed, two-way transitional defender who defends exceptionally well and plays with fearlessness,\u201d said Vees director of scouting Adam Sergerie. \u201cHe\u2019s very efficient in advancing pucks under pressure, and we\u2019ve been really impressed with how much his puck skills have grown this past season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBoth players (Schneider and Tyler Deakos who was also signed earlier today) will be key pieces for next season, and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing them make a strong impact as part of our group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schneider spent time with Sherwood Park and Camrose of the AJHL before making the move to the USHL this past season and was part of the Calgary Buffaloes Telus Cup run in 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Penticton Vees announced today the signing of Canadian defenceman Jackson Schneider for the 2026-27 season.\u00a0 Schneider comes over from the USHL where he spent the 2025-26 season with the Waterloo Black Hawks registering 15 points in 52 games played.\u00a0 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