Vancouver Giants allowed five power play goals in a 9-4 loss to the Victoria Royals on Saturday night at Save on Foods Memorial Centre.

Early in the second, it was 3-3 before the Royals rung off three straight goals to make it 6-3 after 40 minutes.

Vancouver made it 6-4 early in the third period, but Victoria widened the gap by scoring three in a row.

Ty Halaburda scored twice on the power play, while Ethan Mittelsteadt and Tyus Sparks had the other Giants goals.

Victoria got four goals from Roan Woodward plus single tallies from five different players: Miles Cooper, Caleb Matthews, Ashton Brown, Ludovic Perreault and Timofei Runtso.

Mittelsteadt opened the scoring less than a minute into the game off a wrist shot from the left point.

Victoria tied it on a goal from Cooper before Mat

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