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Chiefs get goals from seven players in 7-2 rout of Victoria Royals

From staff reports

VICTORIA, B.C. – The Spokane Chiefs put an emphatic end to a three-game skid, getting goals from seven players in a 7-2 rout of the Victoria Royals in Western Hockey League play on Saturday night.

A red-hot Riley Woods put the Chiefs on top early with a goal at 5 minutes, 57 seconds of the opening period. Tyson Feist assisted on Woods’ 15th goal of the season. Woods, who added an assist, has five goals in his past three games; he’s eighth in the league in scoring.

Phillip Schultz pulled the Royals even with a short-handed goal at 11:33 in the first, but the Chiefs (9-7-1-2, 21 points) got goals from Luke Toporowski on the power play and Filip Kral to take a 3-1 lead heading into the second period.

Nine seconds in, the Chiefs took a 4-1 lead on Eli Zummack’s seventh goal of the season, with Kral picking up his second assist of the night.

After Kaid Oliver halved the lead for Victoria with a goal at the 13:22 mark, the Chiefs answered, Adam Beckman finding the net for the ninth time this season. Cordel Larson and Carter Chorney added empty-net goals for Spokane in the final 2:57, wrapping up the rout and avenging Friday night’s 7-5 loss to the Royals. Toporowski, Beckman and Chorney scored goals in both games.

Chiefs goalie Dawson Weatherill stopped 30 of 32 shots on goal.

Spokane’s penalty-kill unit was stellar, as Victoria whiffed on all six attempts with a man advantage. The Chiefs found the net on 1 of 3 power-play tries. The Royals outshot the Chiefs 32-29 for the match.

With the victory, the Chiefs moved a point ahead of the idle Tri-City Americans for third place in the U.S. Division of the Western Conference. Victoria, second in the B.C. Division, fell to 10-6-0-0.

The Chiefs cap off their three-game road swing with a trip to Seattle to take on the Thunderbirds on Tuesday night at 7:05.