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Adam Hall's Hat-Trick Goal Sinks the Silveritps in Overtime

April 23, 2022 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Vancouver Giants News Release


Vancouver Giants celebrate a big overtime win
Vancouver Giants celebrate a big overtime win
(Vancouver Giants, Credit: Kristin Ostrowski)

Everett, WA - Friday night at the Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, WA the Vancouver Giants skated to a 5-4 overtime victory to draw first blood in their opening round playoff series with the Everett Silvertips. Adam Hall (3G,OA) recorded his third goal of the night at 9:47 of overtime while Fabian Lysell set a Giants playoff single-game record with five assists. Alex Cotton and Colton Langkow added the other markers for the Giants. For Everett Niko Huuhtanen responded with a goal and an assist. The Silvertips led by two goals on three separate occasions while the Giants never once lead the game on Friday.

1st Period:

EVT - Ryan Hofer opened the scoring for Everett on a deflection from Olen Zellweger's point shot at 6:24.

EVT - At 19:09 Alex Swetlikoff parked himself in the slot, and one-timed home a feed from Jacob Wright during a Silvertips power play. Niko Huuhtanen earned the second assist.

Shots: 16-11 Everett

2nd Period:

VAN - The Giants first goal of the night came at 3:18 on a power play courtesy of Adam Hall. The over-ager skated into the high slot, took a feed from Fabian Lysell and wired home his first of three on the night. Zack Ostapchuk added the second assist.

EVT - Just under three minutes later at 6:11, Jacob Wright knocked home a Ty Gibson rebound past Jesper Vikman to restore the two-goal cushion for Everett. Ryan Hofer had the second assist on the play.

VAN - With under a minute to go in the second, Colton Langkow parked himself in front of the Everett goal and tipped an Alex Cotton point shot home to record his first career WHL goal. Fabian Lysell helped set the play up and earned the second assist.

Shots: 8-8

3rd Period:

EVT - Early in the third at 2:24, Niko Huuhtanen's blast from the right-wing circle went up and over the right shoulder of Jesper Vikman to give the Everett Silvertips their third two-goal lead of the night. The lone helper came from Ronan Seeley.

VAN - The final comeback bid of the evening for the Giants began at 6:47 when Adam Hall pounced on an Alex Cotton rebound and tucked a backhander home on the power play to make the score 4-3. The second assist? Fabian Lysell.

VAN - Then with the net empty and time winding down, Alex Cotton tied the score at 4-4 off a shot through traffic from the high slot. Cotton's first of the playoffs was set up by both Fabian Lysell and Zack Ostapchuk.

Shots: 11-9 Vancouver

Overtime:

VAN - At 9:47 of the first overtime, Adam Hall helped the Giants complete their comeback with his third goal of the night which came off a shot from the left-wing circle off the rush. Both Zack Ostapchuk and Fabian Lysell drew the assists on Hall's first career WHL hat-trick.

Shots: 10-5 Vancouver

GAME SUMMARY

Final Score: Vancouver 5 - Everett 4 (OT) - Giants lead the series 1-0.

Final Shots: 40-38 Vancouver

Jesper Vikman: 34/38 saves for Vancouver

Koen MacInnes: 35/40 saves for Everett

Vancouver Power Play: 2/4

Everett Power Play: 1/2

3 Stars:

1) Adam Hall (3G - VAN)

2) Fabian Lysell (5A - VAN)

3) Hiko Huuhtanen (1G, 1A - EVT)

Next Game: These two teams meet again tomorrow night at 6:05 PM for Game 2.

NOTES

- Dating back to March, 2018 and Round 1 against the Victoria Royals, the Vancouver Giants have now started each of their previous six playoff series with a victory.

- Fabian Lysell set a Vancouver Giant single-game playoff record with five assists.

- Adam Hall becomes the third Giant this season (during the regular season or playoffs) to record a hat-trick. Both Payton Mount (March 27th vs. PG) and Zack Ostapchuk (April 9 at KEL) have recorded hat-tricks this season.

- The Vancouver Giants were the only bottom seeded team in the Western Conference to win a game on Friday night as Kelowna, Prince George and Spokane all lost their respective games.

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Fabian Lysell and Adam Hall after the game-winner
Fabian Lysell and Adam Hall after the game-winner
(Kristin Ostrowski)		 Vancouver Giants celebrate a big overtime win
Vancouver Giants celebrate a big overtime win
(Kristin Ostrowski)		  



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