The Northwest Giants earned a berth in yet another B.C. Major Midget Hockey League playoff championship.
The defending regular season champions dispatched the Greater Vancouver Canadians 2-0 in the best-of-three playoff semifinal at the Burnaby Winter Club on Saturday.
The Burnaby-based club took the opening game 2-1 on Friday with first-period goals by Quinn Thompson and defenceman Dante Fabbro, who scored the eventual game-winner less than a minute later.
On Saturday, Greater Vancouver struck first with a goal by Alex Whitwham late in the first period.
But Burnaby’s Keyvan Mokhtari, with his first of two goals on the night, tied it up in the middle frame.
Colton Kerfoot tallied the game-winning goal, sparking an unanswered three-goal splurge in the final period. Burnaby’s Justin Szeto and Fabbro, with his first of two helpers in the game, drew assists on the Kerfoot goal.
Mokhtari and Thompson also scored in the third period.
The Giants will face the Okanagan Rockets, who needed all three games to get past a scrappy Valley West Hawks bunch, in a best-of-three final at the Burnaby Winter Club, beginning Friday, March 21.
Game 2 is scheduled for Saturday, March 22. Both games are 6:30 p.m. starts.
If necessary, a third and deciding game will be played on Sunday at 11 a.m.
