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<\/p>\nThe road trip presents a challenge against two teams from the Coastal West, a division against which Brooks has managed just one win this season.<\/p>\n
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The Bandits also have an overtime loss to the Cowichan Valley Capitals and a 4-2 loss to Victoria at the BCHL Showcase in Nisku.<\/p>\n
The Powell River Kings enter the weekend with a 6-6-1 record, and the Bandits will play a familiar face in former teammate defenceman Mark Konstantinov.<\/p>\n
He won a championship with the Bandits last season and will face his former team for the first time.<\/p>\n
Konstantinov has one point in 12 games with Powell River.<\/p>\n
The Kings are coached by Brennan Menard, who previously led the Sherwood Park Crusaders for three seasons, compiling a 111-55-9 record.<\/p>\n
Menard\u2019s Crusaders pushed Brooks to seven games in the second round of last year\u2019s BCHL playoffs before the Bandits advanced with a decisive win in Game 7.<\/p>\n
Powell River forward Michael Mikan is another player with experience against Brooks.<\/p>\n
He played 41 combined games with the Okotoks Oilers and Sherwood Park Crusaders last season and was held to one point during the seven-game playoff series against the Bandits.<\/p>\n
The Harvard commit leads the Kings with 17 points in 13 games, including a team-high eight goals.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s matchup against Victoria gives the Bandits a chance to avenge an October loss against the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n
Victoria sits atop the Coastal West standings with a 9-4-0 record, despite losing four of its last six games.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies have built their early success around defence, allowing 30 goals through 13 games, compared with 50 for Brooks.<\/p>\n
The Bandits have scored 59 goals this season, 16 more than Victoria\u2019s 43, but have also conceded 20 more.<\/p>\n
Victoria\u2019s leading presence in net is former Bandit goaltender Mikus Vecvanags, a Montreal Canadiens prospect.<\/p>\n
Vecvanags has nine wins in 12 starts, with a 2.01 goals-against average and a .938 save percentage.<\/p>\n
He appeared in five games for Brooks during the 2024-25 season, winning four, before his rights were traded to Victoria.<\/p>\n
Brooks will also bring several productive players into the weekend. Dmitrijs Dilevka leads the Bandits with 19 points and 15 assists, tied for second in the BCHL scoring race.<\/p>\n
Makaio Van Tassel\u2019s 10 goals are tied for fifth in the league.<\/p>\n
Defenceman Zachary Deleau leads all BCHL blueliners with 17 points and is tied for the league lead among defencemen with four goals.<\/p>\n
Forward Koby Francis has 12 points in seven games, giving him 1.71 points per game, second in the league among players with at least six appearances.<\/p>\n
The Bandits visit Powell River on Friday, with puck drop scheduled for 8 p.m. Mountain time.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game in Victoria begins at 7 p.m. Mountain time.<\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from Ryan Reed, Brooks Bandits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road trip presents a challenge against two teams from the Coastal West, a division against which Brooks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-951957","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\/951957","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=951957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}