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There are plenty of ways to set the tone for a seven-game playoff series. But usually, so many of them don’t all happen in one game.

It was a battle of attrition, but after a Game 6 double-overtime 5-4 win on Tuesday, the Spokane Chiefs outlasted the Victoria Royals to advance to the Western Hockey League Western Conference finals.

Of course, Tuesday’s Game 6 in the Western Conference semifinals went to overtime. With the way the series played out, there was no other logical conclusion.

Of course, it went to overtime. And like the previous two overtime games in the series, the Spokane Chiefs found a way to come up with the same – positive – result. 

Down 4-1 entering the third period, the Spokane Chiefs made a furious comeback to force overtime. It took nearly the entire extra session, but the Chiefs continued their offensive onslaught and found the winner.

VICTORIA, B.C. – The Spokane Chiefs had not held a lead during play against the Victoria Royals in any of the first three games of their Western Hockey League Western Conference semifinal series.

VICTORIA, B.C. – Victoria’s Teydon Trembecky finished a hat trick with 30 seconds left and the Spokane Chiefs lost to the Royals 4-3 in Game 3 of the Western Hockey League Western Conference semifinals at Memorial Arena on Wednesday.

For the second game in a row the Spokane Chiefs found themselves down 2-0 to the Victoria Royals midway through the second period. Unlike Sunday's come-from-behind victory, the Chiefs did not score the next goal – or complete the comeback. 

The Spokane Chiefs closed out Vancouver in their first-round series in five games on April 5. They've been off since, and their Western Conference semifinal series against the Victoria Royals was the last of the four Western Hockey League second-round matchups to start – with some completing two games before the Chiefs and Royals got started.

The Spokane Chiefs dispatched the Vancouver Giants in five games in the first round of the Western Hockey League Western Conference playoffs, reaching the second round for the first time since 2019.

Young Mike Boyle used to watch sports on television with his father.