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Kings take two at home

Kings picked up their second win in two nights by beating the Cowichan Valley Capitals 3-1.

They now lead the Caps 2-0 in the best of seven series and will travel to Duncan for the next couple of games on Monday and Tuesday.

Caps took a different approach to the second game on Saturday night and toned down their physical assault in an attempt to stay out of the penalty box.

The Kings did manage to open the scoring on the powerplay when Mitch Labreche cut across the crease, undressed Brossoit, and tucked in the Kings first goal at 8:26.

Kings mauled Brossoit with 19 shots in the first period while Watson was asked to stop just four.

One other play worth mentioning was the bone crushing check by Garrett on Kings' captain Mat Bodie. Bodie got caught looking at his pass at the Caps blueline and Garrett cleanly walloped Bodie who immediately got up and shook it off.

Caps took advantage of a Kings turnover and converted a nice three onto two crisscross play with the trailor, Chris Daniels, blasting a slapshot in off the crossbar from 30 feet.

Kings kept the pressure up though and with Jackson Garrett serving a hooking minor got a powerplay goal from Waugh, who slammed in a rebound at 11:52 of the second.

That was the winner as Kings kicked in the strong forecheck and pretty much hemmed in the Caps for the rest of the game.

As restrained as the Caps were for most of the night Garrett killed any chance of a comeback late in the game with an undisciplined high stick in the offensive zone. What a killer that was.

Caps pulled Brossoit anyway and Niddery deposited an uncontested empty netter to clinch the 3-1 win.

In the dying seconds MacDonald was sent out to stir things up but the weak attempt to intimidate the Kings was way too little, too late and the Kings coasted to a nice two game lead in the series.

“It was a good close game,” said Matt Garbowsky later.

“They looked like they were trying to run us a bit and chirp,” he said, “but we just take it and keep moving forward.”

Assistant coach Shane Lukinchuk was smiling later and said, “we figured tonight was going to be close – it was.”

“Their goalie played really well,” he complimented, “and he made a couple of big saves in the third to keep them alive.”

Of the Caps only goal he said the turnover was a result of, “everybody was thinking offense at that time and we had good possession but we threw it blind and that's what happens.”

“But other than that,” he explained, “they didn't generate a lot of scoring chances.”

Two game total shots on goal – Kings 105 Caps 38

 Armitage Mens Wear Three Stars:

1. Ben Schmidt – strong on the puck all night

2. Laurent Brossoit – 44 saves on 46 shots kept his team in it.

3. Teagan Waugh – one goal, tireless worker and was a constant threat all night.