VIDEO: Overtime win at home for Vancouver Giants against Kelowna<\/p>\n
Published 7:00 am Monday, March 9, 2026<\/p>\n
On \u201cBe A Superhero Night,\u201d Vancouver Giants in Batman jerseys downed the Kelowna Rockets 3-2 in a shootout on Sunday at Langley Events Centre.<\/p>\n
Dressed up to raise funds for the Children\u2019s Miracle Network, the Giants winning goal came from Tobias Tomik, with goals in regulation from Mathis Preston and Blake Chorney, plus a heroic 32 saves from Burke Hood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Vancouver got on the board just 17 seconds into the game to take a 1-0 lead. Both teams exchanged second period goals, giving the Giants a 2-1 lead heading into the final frame. Kelowna tied things up just over six minutes into the third on a power play to send the game to overtime. After neither side scored during the five minutes of 3-on-3, Vancouver outscored the Rockets 3-2 in the shootout to snag the win.<\/p>\n
Giants Head Coach Parker Burgess was happy with the way the weekend ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team as a whole was excellent. Outside of one period in Kamloops, we had a really good week. It\u2019s a great way to kick start the final stretch here in March. Friday was the most fun \u2013 it felt like a playoff game in Kelowna on Friday. Today, the battle from the kids and having to come back late and the resilience of the group [was great]. Selfishly, I just wish there was 15-20 more games left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giants started off strong when Preston notched his 16th goal of the season just 17 seconds into the game when he received a cross-ice bank pass from Sam Charko to give the Giants the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Giants maintained their 1-0 lead entering the second period.<\/p>\n
Kelowna tied the game with just under four minutes left in the middle frame when a deflected pass from Iginla found its way to Cihar who buried it right in front of the net.<\/p>\n
Vancouver responded less than two minutes later, when Chorney sniped his seventh goal of the season top corner after capitalizing on a rebound from the left face-off circle to give the Giants the 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
The Rockets found the equalizer midway through the third when Smith snapped a wrist shot goal from the left face-off dot on the power play to send the game to overtime.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless OT, the Giants got three shootout goals: one each from Preston, Iginla and Tomik, plus four saves from Hood, who sealed the deal with a save on Carson Wetsch in the sixth round.<\/p>\n
Next, Giants have a home and home with Victoria on Friday and Saturday, before heading to Seattle on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Overtime win at home for Vancouver Giants against Kelowna Published 7:00 am Monday, March 9, 2026 On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-524736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}