Any hope of the Vancouver Giants putting up a perfect season are now dead after the Chilliwack Bruins defeated the Vancouver Giants 3-2 in a shootout Sunday night in Chilliwack.

All kidding aside the 4-0 Giants struggled in Chilliwack and put forth their worst effort of the season. Despite having five first period powerplays the Giants were unable to get on the scoreboard until Chris Cloud scored his second goal of the season at 18:02 to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. The G-men outshot the Bruins 13-5 through the first 20 minutes of play.

The second period saw the Bruins turn the tables on the Giants when Cody Kulhanek scored only 2:11 into play to tie the game. The usual road game that the Giants usually play all but disappeared and the Bruins got through the second period with the tie intact, having outshot the Giants 9-7.

The third period started with much of the same as the Giants were unable to put together any momentum and struggled to find their game as the Bruins again outshot the Giants in the period 9-8. Spencer Machacek gave the Giants a late 2-1 lead scoring short-handed with less than four minutes to play. But a little over a minute later Kulhanek struck again and the Bruins found themselves in a 2-2 with the Memorial Cup champs.

Things were looking up for the Giants as they again went to the powerplay at 17:27 and 19:30 but were unable to convert on either opportunity. The two teams made it through an uneventful overtime frame before heading to the shootout.

In the shootout Repik, Cloud and Machacek all failed to score during the first round of shots while Sexsmith kept the Giants in it with saves against Jadon Potter, Oscar Moller and Nick Holden. The first sudden death shooter for Vancouver, Brent Regner, was also stopped by Matt Esposito before Mark Santorelli put his shot off the post and in to give the Bruins the win.

GiantsBeat.com Player of the Game: Cody Kulhanek. The winger scored two gritty goals including the tying to goal and provided enough grit to make every shift count. If some of the Giants forwards had matched Kulhanek's effort tonight the game would not have been in question at all.