The Port Moody Panthers entertained fans at their season home-opener Saturday night, blowing out the Ridge Meadows Flames 10-2.
Alexander McGovern potted the first for the Cats with two minutes left in the first period before the floodgates opened in the second and the team pumped in six goals.
The team got scoring up and down the lineup, with Ivan Erlic, James Jercyznski, Daniel Obcena, Evan Gain, Sam Bodnaruk and Kyle Henderson all finding the back of the net in the second.
Ridge Meadows managed to get a power play goal in the third period, when Brandon Inwood netted a single to make it 8-1. Jake Holland followed up with a second goal for the Flames, but it was not enough to help the team out of the hole it dug for itself earlier in the game.
Cameron Obcena scored another for the Cats, while Panthers forward Derian White scored his second of the game to finish off the visitors 10-2.
Cats goalie Joshua Barrett stopped 23 of 25 shots, while Jeremy Tamelin stopped 37 of 30 he faced, before being chased in favour of backup James Peakman.
But things did not go as easy for the Port Moody Panthers 24 hours later when the club visited the Grandview Steelers at the Burnaby Winter Club Sunday night.
Neither team was able to muster many shots, but it was the Steelers that managed to capitalize, getting their first goal in the first period off the stick of Braeden Gurney.
A power play marker in the second made it 2-0 before Adam Rota scored Grandview’s third goal to go up 3-0, a score that will hold for the rest of the game.
The Panthers will take on Abbotsford this Saturday at the Port Moody Arena at 7:45 p.m., before taking on Mission Monday night at 8 p.m. at home.
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The Coquitlam Express split their weekend match ups, falling to the Chilliwack Chiefs Saturday night before bouncing back against the Surrey Eagles Sunday.
The team struggled early in its first regular season match of the game, but managed to get their offence rolling in the third with goals from Owen Stout, Colton Kerfoot and Jonathan Irving.
However, it was not enough to slow down the Chiefs, who won the match 5-3.
The Express started out stronger in the second game of the weekend on Sunday night. Erik Udahl and Cameron Bertsch both scored in the first, before Kerfoot scored his second of the weekend in the third period.
