Hooker has 4-point night in Cougars 6-3 win over Giants

Apr 10, 2021 | 11:24 PM

KAMLOOPS, BC – The Prince George Cougars jumped back into the win column on Saturday with an emphatic 6-3 win over the Vancouver Giants at the Sandman Centre.

Prince George ended their three-game winless streak and snapped the Giants five-game win streak in the process. The win evened the Cougars’ record to 2-2-1-1 through six games, as they sit third in the B.C. Division.

Jonny Hooker led the way, as he scored the game-winner and finished with four points (1-3-4). He was the game’s first star. Ethan Browne chipped in with a goal and an assist and Hudson Thornton scored his first WHL goal in his debut. Craig Armstrong scored the team’s first short-handed goal of the season, and Connor Bowie and Koehn Ziemmer also found the back of the net.

In his final start before heading off to the World Under-18 Hockey Championship with Team Canada, Tyler Brennan earned his second win by stopping 26 shots. He leaves with a 2-0-1-1 record, to go along with 2.16 goals-against average, a .933 save percentage, and one shutout.

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The Cougars put to an end the Giants’ Trent Miner’s shutout streak, as he had not allowed a single goal against in his previous five appearances. He surrendered five on 28 shots in the loss Saturday.

The Giants led 2-1 midway through the first period before the Cougars scored four unanswered goals to pull away. Browne and Ziemmer scored in the opening frame, as the Cougars battled back from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits. In the middle stanza, it was Armstrong (short-handed) and Hooker who scored to grab the Cougars a 4-2 lead after two periods. Thornton and Bowie (empty-net) tacked on third period markers.

Prince George will be back on the ice Monday (April 12) against the very same Vancouver Giants in hopes of finding another notch in the win column.

by Ethan Ready

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Hooker has 4-point night in Cougars 6-3 win over Giants

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