The Vancouver Giants have won four in a row. They’re feeling pretty good about themselves. We have video evidence. Carter Popoff, in the midst of talking about how well goaltender Payton Lee played in a 3-0 win over the Prince Albert Raiders on Wednesday at the Pacific Coliseum, gets a couple special visitors.
That’s acting equipment manager Chad Scharff and then team vice-president Dale Saip making pitstops beside Popoff.
It’s those kind of good times right now with Vancouver, outside of Jackson Houck leaving Wednesday’s game with an apparent lower body injury. Houck, Vancouver’s first-line right winger, seemed to get injured when he missed a check on a Prince Albert player in the third. He came back for a shift, had trouble moving and went to the dressing room with about three minutes to go.
He opened the scoring against Prince Albert, marking his fifth goal in four games.
He’s being listed as day-to-day.
Vancouver also got goals from Joel Hamilton and, into an empty net, Tyler Benson. Lee made 29 saves.
The first period was dreary, but Vancouver turned things up in the second and third and brought a work ethic through their entire line-up that coach Claude Noel had been preaching at practice all week.
Noel mentioned more than once how pleased he was with the play of Alec Baer, Vladimir Bobylev and Jesse Roach, which was his No. 4 unit.
Here’s more Popoff.
Vancouver visits Victoria on Friday and then hosts the Royals on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Raiders announced that they had traded star defenceman Josh Morrissey to the Kelowna Rockets after the game.
