For the third time this season the Giants let a lead slip versus the Tri-City Americans. For the second time they watched a 3-1 lead going into the third period vanish and two points fly out the nearest window. You would think that by now they would learn that even if you let the Americans play a good 20 minutes, you can get burned. The Giants did not play a complete game, failed to score on a replacement goalie until it was too late to really make a statement and allowed a solid lead to slip out of their grasp. I am incensed that they would be so dumb as to sit back and try to protect a lead against this team as they have been burned three out of four games this way. The G’s came out to what should have been an insurmountable lead of 3-0 and then let it get whittled away. Allowing a late goal in the first was poor, but not really bringing a big game in the second was pretty much inexcusable and then allowing the Ams to run roughshod over them in the third is not what elite teams do and if the Giants hope to still be considered elite in this league then they all have to suck it up and make sure they win these games. In didn’t help matters that their goalie allowed two soft ones down the stretch, but the boys needed to have that hunger and in the final frame they didn’t. They should be ashamed they only got a point, not happy.
The Giants scored early when some nice pressure around the net had Bouma stuff the puck in the short-side. Tomas Vincour laid a great body check to spring the puck loose, getting the lone assist. Brett Breitkreuz padded that lead going hard to the net and making a nice move to get the puck past Alexander Pechurskiy. Milan Kytnar garnered the only assist. James Wright made it 3-0 going to the net and tipping the puck past Pechurskiy. Once again it was Tomas Vincour with the helper. Drew Owsley was swapped for Pechurskiy after the third goal. The Ams got one back mid-first when Neal Prokop scored a beauty back-hand past Mark Segal who had his moments, but really needed to bear down in the third as he let in two soft goals he absolutely has to stop.
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