VICTORIA 4 CHILLIWACK 2
Luc Pelletier keeps on scoring and the Victoria Grizzlies keep on winning.
For the sixth time in his last four ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Hockey League games, the veteran Pelletier found the back of the net on Saturday night at The Q Centre and the goal helped the Grizzlies knock off the Chilliwack Chiefs 4-2 to push their win streak to four games.
Pelletier, who’s headed to the NCAA and Princeton University next fall, got the first of two Grizzlies’ power-play goals in the second period that gave Victoria the lead after Chilliwack’s Matt Argentina beat Oliver Auyeung-Ashton midway through the first period to give the Chiefs an early lead. Anthony Carone had the other Grizzlies’ power-play marker in the middle period.
Reegan Hiscock gave the Grizzlies some breathing room six minutes into the third when he took a nice feed from Carone and beat Chiefs goaltender Austin McNicholas in close.
Charlie Gollub iced it with an empty-netter. Hiscock and Carone both finished with three-point nights.
The Chiefs’ Nico Grabas was credited with the game’s final goal with under a second left in regulation.
Auyeung-Ashton finished with 41 saves to pick up his 12th win of the season.
The Grizzlies (19-11-0-1) now get ready for a key home-and-home set with the Nanaimo Clippers beginning Friday night at Frank Crane Arena and finishing up Saturday night at The Q Centre. The Chiefs (16-13-1-0) host Prince George on Friday.
LOOSE PUCKS: The Grizzlies were without two key defencemen on Saturday as Nathan King sat out due to a suspension and Richard Baran was still en route back from Sweden where he was a member of the Slovakian team at the world junior hockey championship. Both are expected back in the lineup next weekend.
