Vancouver Giants hope to reach Seventh Heaven!

With all of the hoopla surrounding the Vancouver Canucks and their Northwest Division title, Vancouver’s other hockey team has been forgotten in the shuffle.

It's been a very entertaining series so far, with the Vancouver Giants taking the first two games at home against the Spokane Chiefs. Vancouver seemed poised to cruising to a series win against their rivals down south, but the Chiefs had other ideas.

Spokane took the next three, putting themselves in a position to close out the series at home. After losing 3 straight, and facing elimination on the road, it could have been easy to roll over and die, but the Giants hung in tight and prevailed to force a game 7 at the Coliseum.

"The series is so close and competitive," said centre James Wright of the Giants who scored a pair of third period goals and assisted on Evander Kane's double-overtime winning tally in Game 6.
Although the Giants have the advantage of the home crowd, they are going to be in tough against the defending champions, who will no doubt put up a valiant fight.

The Giants have never won a Game 7, but before last game, they had never won a Game 6 either. In 2007 the Giants faced the Medicine Hat Tigers in the finals and fell to them in the Seventh game. Last season these same Chiefs had Vancouver down 3-2 and closed them out in 6 games en route to winning it all.

Vancouver coach Don Hay made the right call moving Wright in between Kane and Garry Nunn in the third period of Game 6. He was tight lipped about his lineup for Game 7, but he's been known to stick with a winning lineup.

Under Hay, the Giants are 0-3 when a series has gone beyond 5 games. But once the puck drops, none of that matters. The two teams are going to leave it all on the ice, and hopefully our Giants can come out on top.