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Kings blank the Express 4-0

The waters may have been calm for the Express to cross over from the island to meet the Kings but things got very rough for them once they took the ice.

The Kings were, according to one fan, literally flying on Sunday afternoon and they completely dominated the Express who had won 4-2 over Alberni the night before.

Kings opened the scoring after a furious start on a nice shot top shelf from Chad Niddery at 4:51.

Garbowsky got the assist on Niddery's goal and Niddery repaid the favour on their second of the period when he took his shot and the rebound came out to Garbowksy who waited until he saw an opening and made it 2-0 at 8:49.

Kings totally dominated the period and kept pouring it on in the second.

Teagan Waugh struck for his second goal in two game when he came out from the left corner, took a shot and then gobbled up the rebound to slip it between the legs of the Express goalie.

His goal at 3:50 was more than enough for the Kings who held a wide, 33 – 13 shot margin and if not for some great saves from Express's Devji, could have had more.

Kings have been know to let off the gas with a three goal lead but on Sunday they kept coming and added one more to their total.

A gorgeous goal from the fourth line showed off the depth of the Kings forwards as the crowd gasped at the slickness of the passing play.

Bond Hawryluk hit Bardarson with a pass and he fired a crisp pass to Brendon Hawryluk in the slot who one timed a laser into the net.

All that was left was to protect the shutout for Michael Garteig and the Kings did that with the help of Garteig who made some key saves near the end.

Kings shot total at the end was 46 to 16 for the Express and gave them a glistening 14-3-0-1 record at home.

Defenseman Jason Yee was one of the first to congratulate Garteig on his fifth shutout of the year.

“Last game we had two kind of weak ones and that's not acceptable,” he smiled, “and yep, we wanted to do it for Garts.”

It would be awesome to see him get the league record and as a team obviously our goals against average going down and we battled to do that today.”

He wants it to become a habit as he said, “we want to maintain our game and improve on it.”

Last week's game against Nanaimo taught the Kings a valuable lesson and that is not to take any team lightly.

“We were expected to win this game,” Yee said, “but the advantage goes to the underdog because they have nothing to lose so we had to come out and leave nothing to chance.”

“That's what we did in the first,” he smiled.

Kings didn't get a powerplay goal in the game but Waugh's did come on the tail end of one. Kings coaches obviously are very pleased with the effort and even the powerplay that has shown promise but still struggles.

“The last two games our powerplay has had good shifts and generated some chances, assistant coach Geoff Grimwood said, “and even if you're not scoring at least it's creating something for you and there is some momentum off of it, whereas back in October our powerplay was really deflating us.”

“The last couple of nights I feel even if we aren't scoring at least we had productive shifts and the guys are feeling like a goal might be coming for them.”

A good week for the Kings and it helped them to maintain the gap between themselves and the second place Chiefs.

Ron Armitage Mens Wear Three Stars were:

1. Matt Garbowksy

2. Daniel Schuler

3. Chad Niddery