A severe case of the second period blues came back to bite the Prince George Spruce Kings.
Two goals by Nico Grabas followed by singles from Dustin Renas and Easton Schlender paced the Chilliwack Chiefs to a convincing 6-2 win over the BCHL’s most northern franchise.
It was a perfect road start for the Spruce Kings who scored the only goal in the game’s opening 20 minutes courtesy of Mathis Laplante who capped off a feed from Quesnel’s Carter Hesselgrave for a 1-0 lead at intermission.
Whatever was said at intermission by Chiefs bench boss Brian Maloney stuck like glue as Chilliwack swarmed under PG in the middle frame outshooting them by a 12-1 margin, capping it off with the four-pack of markers.
Darik Olson and Dominic Greico added third period singles for the Chiefs for snapped an eight-game losing streak.
During that skid, Chilliwack was lit up by the Spruce Kings at the Kopar Memorial Arena by scores of 10-1 and 5-2 on October 3rd and 4th.
Dracen Campbell notched his first BCHL on the man-advantage for the Spruce Kings with under two minutes remaining dropping to an even 5-5-0-0 on the campaign.
Colin Reay took the loss in goal making 27 saves. His counterpart, David Di Girolamo stopped a mere 16 Spruce King pucks that came his direction.
PG continues its weekend road trip tonight (Saturday) with an evening tilt against the Surrey Eagles (0-10-0-0) at 7:00 from the South Surrey Arena.
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