{"id":947064,"date":"2026-10-26T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947064\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:40:20","slug":"spruce-kings-top-of-the-bchl-standings-after-sweeping-vancouver-island-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947064\/","title":{"rendered":"Spruce Kings top of the BCHL standings after sweeping Vancouver Island road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spruce Kings improve to 10-3-0-0 on the 2026-27 BCHL season, good for 20 points in 13 games. They lead the BCHL Coastal East Division over the Coquitlam Express by two points, although the Express have a game in hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793029220_211_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After more than three weeks on the road, the Spruce Kings are back at home on Friday, Oct. 30, when they welcome the Chilliwack Chiefs to Kopar Memorial Arena. Puck drop is at 7:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scoring Summary\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First Period\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1-0, Grizzlies, Jacob Leonard (1) from Hugo Daniel and Landon Poe, 5:34\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1-1, Spruce Kings, Max Mahoney (3) from Dominic Szczygiel and Nick Bianchi (power play), 10:57\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second Period\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2-1, Spruce Kings, Nick Bianchi (2) from Cody Arnold (power play), 9:32\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2-2, Grizzlies, Joey Brehmer (5) from Gabriel Courchesne and Mike Cuesta Flores (power play), 14:37\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Third Period\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3-2, Spruce Kings, Vincent Croteau (1) from Charlie Spencer and Cooper Faughnan, 1:40\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4-2, Spruce Kings, Ryan Wachtel (11) from Cristian Achim and Cooper Faughnan, 9:19\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4-3, Grizzlies, Joey Brehmer 2\u00a0(6) from Gabriel Courchesne and Alex Hendry, 17:54\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goaltending\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cody Arnold (W), Spruce Kings, 30 saves on 33 shots in 60 minutes played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mikus Vecvanags (L), Grizzlies, 21 saves on 25 shots in 59 minutes played.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spruce Kings improve to 10-3-0-0 on the 2026-27 BCHL season, good for 20 points in 13 games.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-947064","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\/947064","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=947064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}