The Chilliwack Chiefs rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period to score three unanswered goals to edge the Prince George Spruce Kings 4-3 Tuesday night at the Coliseum.
The Game 4 win for the Chiefs means they swept the best-of-seven B.C. Hockey League Mainland Division final series 4-0 and eliminated the Kings from the second round of the playoffs.
Tuesday night in front of 892 hostile Kings fans at the Coliseum, the Chiefs trailed 3-1 going into the third period.
But goals from Liam Ferguson and Jordan Kawaguchi tied the game at 3-3 with just a little more than five minutes remaining in regulation.
Chilliwack forward Tipper Higgins tallied the winner with 19.5 seconds left in the game, 40 seconds into a Chiefs power play.
You can't say the Kings didn't give it their best in Game 4 as they faced elimination for the first time in the 2015 playoffs.
Tied at 1-1 going into the second period, the Kings successfully killed off a four-minute minor penalty even though Chilliwack spent the majority of the time in the Kings offensive zone.
That was until Prince George cleared the zone, Chiefs netminder David Jacobson came out of his net right to the blue line where he mishandled the puck and Braiden Epp skated in and tapped the puck into the net with 19 seconds left in the Kings penalty.
Michael Buonincontri gave Prince George two-goal cushion when he slotted the puck past Jacobson on a power play for a 3-1 lead.
The game was tied at 1-1 after the first period.
Chiefs forward Craig Puffer's seemingly harmless-looking shot slid past Kings netminder Jesse Jenks at the 9:08 mark.
That was after the Kings had spent the majority of time in Chilliwack's end trying to score the first goal.
They were finally rewarded when Epp snuck the puck past Jacobson with 1.8 seconds left.
Prince George outshot the Chiefs 17-6 in the first period and the shots on goal were in Prince George's favour at 34-32 after 60 minutes.
Loose pucks: The Kings were without forwards Jarry Leung (upper body) and Cole Todd and defenceman Viktor Dombrovskiy (concussion). Affiliate players Tavis Roch (defenceman) and forwards Cole Zimmerman and Trevor Pereverzoff took their place.
