VIDEO: Vancouver Giants end regular season with overtime loss to Kamloops<\/p>\n
Published 9:00 am Sunday, March 22, 2026<\/p>\n
Vancouver Giants ended their regular season with an overtime loss to the Kamloops Blazers Saturday night at Langley Events Centre on Fan Appreciation Night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kamloops took a 1-0 lead late in the first and extended it to 2-0 early in the second. Vancouver cut into the lead with a goal from Ethan Mittelsteadt at the 6:41 mark of the second period and then got the tying goal from Joe Iginla late in the middle frame. Vancouver took their first lead of the game with a goal from Mathis Preston midway through the third, before Kamloops responded with a goal just a minute later to send the game into overtime tied at 3-3. The Blazers then won the game with a goal just 15 seconds into overtime.<\/p>\n
Vancouver finishes the season at the bottom of the 12-team western conference with a record of 25-39-2-2 (54 points), while No. 5-ranked Kamloops has clinched a spot in the playoffs with 75 points thanks to a record of 31-24-7-6.<\/p>\n
Mittelsteadt, Iginla and Preston were the goal scorers for Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Lafreniere found the back of the net twice for Kamloops, while Evaschesen and Thomson also tallied goals for the Blazers.<\/p>\n
Kamloops opened the games scoring on the power play when JP Hurlbert sent a cross-ice pass to Tommy Lafreniere who sniped a one-timer home to give the Blazers the 1-0 lead after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Blazers added in the early second when Lafreniere sent a backhand pass to Josh Evaschesen who made a move and buried the pick to take the 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Mittelsteadt got Vancouver on the board when he made a move past one defender and sniped a one-timer from the slot to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n
The Giants tied the game near the end of the second period when Holowaychuk made a beautiful cross-ice pass to Iginla who notched it top shelf to make it 2-2 entering the final frame.<\/p>\n
Preston got the Giants the 3-2 lead in the third period when he got his 18th goal of the season with a one-timer from the face-off dot.<\/p>\n
The Blazers responded just a minute later when Harrison Brunicke sent a backhand to Andrew Thomson in the slot who buried it into the open net.<\/p>\n
Kamloops then won the game 4-3 with an overtime winner just 15 seconds in when Lafreniere tipped the puck in the back of the net after a give and go with Jordan Keller.<\/p>\n
All three stars of the game were Giants: First, Kelton Pyne \u2013 28 Saves on 32 Shots, second, Ethan Mittelsteadt \u2013 1G, 2 SOG and third, Misha Volotovskii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Vancouver Giants end regular season with overtime loss to Kamloops Published 9:00 am Sunday, March 22, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-555079","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\/555079","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=555079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}