VIDEO: A third-period rush by Royals defeats Vancouver Giants<\/p>\n
Published 10:00 am Sunday, March 15, 2026<\/p>\n
Another game started well and ended badly for the Vancouver Giants, who were tied 2-2 with Victoria Royals before a third-period push by the visitors ended with a 5-2 loss for the home team at Langley Events Centre Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
They were tied tied 1-1 after 20 minutes of play and 2-2 after 40.<\/p>\n
Victoria notched two goals in the first half of the third period before adding an empty net goal with three minutes left to take the win.<\/p>\n
Brett Olson and Braydon Riggall were the goal scorers for the Giants.<\/p>\n
Caleb Matthews scored twice for Victoria, while Roan Woodward, Nolan Stewart and Max Silver each found the back of the net once.<\/p>\n
Vancouver falls to 24-38-1-2 (51 points), while Victoria improves to 28-28-6-3 (65 points).<\/p>\n
Victoria scored on the power play with 2:29 left in the first, when Timofei Runtso found Woodward in the right face-off circle, who ripped home his 32nd goal of the season to give the Royals a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Vancouver tied it up at 1-1 less than a minute later when Olson netted a rebound in front of the Victoria crease after a 2-on-0 breakaway from Blake Chorney and Joe Iginla.<\/p>\n
Royals took the lead back with a goal in the first two minutes of the second period when Matthews made a move past a Giant in front of the net and buried the bouncing puck into the net.<\/p>\n
Less than eight minutes later, the Giants responded for the second time when Tomik passed to Riggall who scored to even the score 2-2 after two periods.<\/p>\n
Stewart scored off a broken stick at the 6:16 mark of the third to give Victoria a 3-2 lead before taking the 4-2 lead four minutes later from a goal by Silver on a 2-on-1 rush.<\/p>\n
Matthews hit the empty net for Victoria with 3:07 left to take the 5-2 victory.<\/p>\n
Giants\u2019 are back on the road with their next game is scheduled this afternoon, Sunday,against the Seattle Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n
Saturday, March 21, will be their final home game of the regular season and Fan Appreciation Night at 7 p.m. against Kamloops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A third-period rush by Royals defeats Vancouver Giants Published 10:00 am Sunday, March 15, 2026 Another game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-538555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538555","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=538555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}