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Six-goal game a 'magnetic' event for Chiefs' Ryan Stack

On a night when teammate Brody Dale hit the century mark, Ryan Stack of the Kelowna Chiefs had a game for the ages in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League play on Tuesday at the Rutland Arena.

Stack, an 18-year-old right winger out of West Vancouver, scored six times to set a KIJHL record and lead the first-overall Chiefs to an 11-2 win over the visiting Princeton Posse.

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow/Inset: Dunsmoor Creative </who>Ryan Stack said the puck was a like magnet during his six-goal game on Tuesday.In what proved to be a laugher — especially after the Chiefs needed overtime three days earlier to edge the Posse 4-3 in Princeton — Stack opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal and completed his hat trick in the first period. He added to power-play markers three minutes apart in the second period and established the KI record early in the third.

“It was a bit unreal, that’s for sure,” said Stack who had scored 17 goals in 28 previous games since joining the Chiefs in late September. “There was a lot of puck luck out there. The puck was like a magnet — it just kept coming to my stick from all over the ice.”

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Zach Erhardt contributed a goal and four assists in the Chiefs' lopsided win.Chiefs coach, Ken Law, who was behind the bench with the Osoyoos Coyotes when Rainer Glimpel set the league record of five goals in 2015, said it was more than luck that Stack was so productive.

“I’ve been around the league a long time (nine years) and haven’t seen a player have the puck control that Ryan had tonight. The puck just followed him around and he took advantage of his chances.”

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Myles Mattila set up Stack's shorthanded goal and finished with goal and an assist.His first goal came off a 2-on-1 break that saw him take a pass from Myles Mattila and deke Princeton goaltender Dominic Bosa and backhanded the puck into the net. His first PP goal was a one-timer low glove side from the slot off a feed from Zach Erhardt while on his third tally, he took advantage of a Posse defender losing his stick by side-stepping him and putting the puck high on the glove side.

Another one-timer on another pass from Erhardt resulted in Stack’s fourth goal, while he put away his fifth off a rebound on a shot by Erhardt.

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Stack's linemate, Juanre Naude, assisted on three goals.“That’s when Zach and I started to chuckle about it,” recalled Stack, who had scored six times in one game in his first year of bantam hockey at the Hollyburn Winter Club in West Vancouver? “I have never had a rebound come so soft and flat to my stick. It just couldn’t believe what was happening.”

In the dressing room between the second and third period, much of the chatter was about Stack and what was unfolding.

“A couple of guys knew the record was five goals, so they knew I had a chance to break it,” said Stack. “So, yes, I was aware of it.”

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>With a goal and three assists, Brody Dale, reached the 100-point mark.It didn’t take long for him to make history.

On another 2-on1 break, this time with linemate Juanre Naude, Stack drove to the net and Naude found him for a tip-in goal at 2:49 of the third period.

“Juanre told me afterward that one of the guys was calling for a drop pass, but he knew he had to get it to me for the chance at the record.”

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Shane Zilka stopped 35 shots for his 13th win of the season.Although conceding it was a special night him personally, he said it took a team effort to make it so.

“Everyone was working so hard and the passes I got were great. I just happened to be on the receiving end and had the kind of night where just about everything was going in,” noted Stack, who also hit the cross-bar in the first period.

Stack came to the Chiefs after being a late cut of the Coquitlam Express of the B.C. Hockey League. He played 11 games and posted two goals and three assists with the Express last season while earlier playing 25 games with the Prince George Spruce Kings of the BCHL, also finishing with two goals and three assists.

He’s obviously found a home with the Chiefs — playing on a line with Naude and centre Lane Paddison — and he’s ecstatic about being a part of the team that boasts a league-best 34-2-1-0-2 record, one point better than the Kimberley Dynamiters.

“We have a lot of players with a very high hockey IQ and there’s definitely a lot of perseverance on this team. Several times this season we’ve been down in the second and third period but we’re never out of the fight.

“We all feel we have the right personnel to win it all, but we just have to put on the work boots to make it happen.”

Almost lost in the historic evening was a four-point night (one goal, three assists) by Dale, who now has a league-best 100 points (41 goals and 59 assists) in 35 games.

Second in league scoring is his linemate, Erhardt, who with his goal and four helpers last night has 79 points in 39 games. Dylan Kent and Naude finished with three assists in the lopsided affair while the other Kelowna goals came from Mattila, Paddison and Kayson Gallant.

Despite the nine-goal difference in the final score, Zane Zilka was forced to make 35 saves on 38 Princeton shots to earn his 13th win in goal for the Chiefs.

Up next for the Chiefs is meeting with the Sicamous Eagles on Friday at the Rutland Arena beginning at 7 p.m.



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