Chiefs pull out shootout win over Royals

Spokane Chiefs coach Don Nachbaur wasn’t too thrilled with his team’s performance level on Friday night, but his team did pick up two points in the standings with a 6-5 shootout victory over the Victoria Royals to remain ahead of Vancouver for fourth in the Western Conference standings.

When I asked Cole Wedman, who scored his first Western Hockey League goal in the game, what it’s going to take for the Chiefs to beat the lower-end teams the same way they’ve been beating the high-end teams, he pointed out that the team - as a whole - needs to “manage the puck better and put the same effort in against those teams as (they) do against teams like Tri-City and Portland.”