{"id":2329639,"date":"2026-03-15T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2329639"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:39:08","slug":"video-a-third-period-rush-by-royals-defeats-vancouver-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/video-a-third-period-rush-by-royals-defeats-vancouver-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A third-period rush by Royals defeats Vancouver Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_info\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\">VIDEO: A third-period rush by Royals defeats Vancouver Giants<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:00 am Sunday, March 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- END BYLINE -->\n                          <\/div>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<p>Another game started well and ended badly for the Vancouver Giants, who were tied 2-2 with Victoria Royals before a third-period push by the visitors ended with a 5-2 loss for the home team at Langley Events Centre Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Victoria Royals at Vancouver Giants 03\/14 | WHL Highlights 2025-26\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/USynz5VE4ds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>They were tied tied 1-1 after 20 minutes of play and 2-2 after 40.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria notched two goals in the first half of the third period before adding an empty net goal with three minutes left to take the win.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Olson and Braydon Riggall were the goal scorers for the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Matthews scored twice for Victoria, while Roan Woodward, Nolan Stewart and Max Silver each found the back of the net once.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver falls to 24-38-1-2 (51 points), while Victoria improves to 28-28-6-3 (65 points).<\/p>\n<p>Victoria scored on the power play with 2:29 left in the first, when Timofei Runtso found Woodward in the right face-off circle, who ripped home his 32nd goal of the season to give the Royals a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver tied it up at 1-1 less than a minute later when Olson netted a rebound in front of the Victoria crease after a 2-on-0 breakaway from Blake Chorney and Joe Iginla.<\/p>\n<p>Royals took the lead back with a goal in the first two minutes of the second period when Matthews made a move past a Giant in front of the net and buried the bouncing puck into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Less than eight minutes later, the Giants responded for the second time when Tomik passed to Riggall who scored to even the score 2-2 after two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart scored off a broken stick at the 6:16 mark of the third to give Victoria a 3-2 lead before taking the 4-2 lead four minutes later from a goal by Silver on a 2-on-1 rush.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews hit the empty net for Victoria with 3:07 left to take the 5-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Giants\u2019 are back on the road with their next game is scheduled this afternoon, Sunday,against the Seattle Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 21, will be their final home game of the regular season and Fan Appreciation Night at 7 p.m. against Kamloops.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source hopestandard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: A third-period rush by Royals defeats Vancouver Giants Published 10:00 am Sunday, March 15, 2026 Another game started well and ended badly for the Vancouver Giants, who were tied 2-2 with Victoria Royals before a third-period push by the visitors ended with a 5-2 loss for the home team at Langley Events Centre Saturday. 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