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By Victor Kaisar

Capitals 4 Spruce Kings 3

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Dec 20, 2025 | 10:53 AM

PRINCE GEORGE — The Prince George Spruce Kings went 0 for 8 on the power play Friday (Dec. 19) as they fell 4-3 to the Cowichan Valley Capitals at Kopar Memorial Arena.

The Spruce Kings outshot the BCHL’s leading team 41-26 but couldn’t find a way to victory, despite coming back from two goals down..

Prince George opened the scoring through Tai Ushio at 1:14 of the second period but the Capitals struck twice in a two minute span through Gavis Nemis and Anthony Hall later in the period.

Cowichan Valley added to their lead in the third when Carter Dekay scored at 4:20, but the Spruce Kings found a way back to tie the game at 3-3. Marcus Lougheed made it 3-2 with his 10th of the season before Dominic Szczygiel restored parity at 14:14.

Nemis had other ideas as he fired home his second of the game with less than three minutes to play to put the Capitals in the lead once again.

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Cowichan’s Rhett Stosser picked up the win as he turned aside 38 of 41 shots as the Capitals improve to 23-6-1-0. Ryder Green picked up the loss in the Spruce Kings net as he stopped 22 of 26 shots.

The 15-11-1-0 Spruce Kings will hope for a better outcome at Kopar Memorial Arena when they rematch with the Capitals at 6:00 p.m. Saturday in the final BCHL game of 2025 for both teams.