“With our group, we know we’re capable of doing something special. We know how good we can be.”
Their 6-1 victory over the Royals on Thursday at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre gave the Giants a sweep of the best-of-seven Western Hockey League Western Conference semifinals and vaulted them to the league’s Final Four for the first time since 2009-10 — or back when Montreal Canadiens’ mainstay Brendan Gallagher was a 17-year-old, second-year Giant.
Vancouver needed six games to finish off the Seattle Thunderbirds in the opening round this year for that elusive first series win. The winner of the Chiefs-Silvertips’ series will be a step up in weight class for Vancouver from the Royals. Spokane’s best player is defenceman Ty Smith, who was a first-round pick of the New Jersey Devils last June, or maybe centre Jaret Anderson-Dolan, who was a 2017 second-round pick of the Los Angeles Kings and got into five NHL games this year before being reassigned to Spokane.
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