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The team will also be hosting the 2nd Annual Indigenous Hockey Night at CN Centre on January 20

Zac Funk, with his 42nd goal of the season, and Hudson Thornton scored for the B.C. Division-leading Cougars (28-12-0-0).

BRANDON, Man. — It has been a challenging season for the rebuilding Vancouver Giants, but they looked mighty impressive on Saturday with a 4-0 Western Hockey League road victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings at Westoba Place.

Brogan McNeil scored the only goal for the Kings.

Sveta Boykova led UNBC with 18 points and 15 rebounds while Adaiah Tupas-Singh chimed in with an impressive 11 points and six boards.

Josh Gillespie secured his second double-double in as many games with a 12 point, 13 rebound, seven block stat line.

Alexis Cournoyer and Kazumo Sasaki each scored two goals for the Kings, with singles from Skogen Schrott, Owen Goodbrand and Lindon Makow.

Cougars netminder Ty Young kicked out 38 shots for the win

With 0.8 seconds left on the clock, UNBC came within inches of tying the game off a spectacular in-bound pass alley-oop attempt but the ball hit the outside of the rim.

With only an eight-player rotation, rookie Viktoriia Filatova led the charge with a career-best 17 points along with four rebounds and two assists