2026 WHL Playoffs Daily Recap: April 19
A look at all the action from the second round of the 2026 WHL Playoffs.
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Johnson, Ravensbergen knocked it down for Carles.
Kursak, Carles in the middle to Shergot.
Shergot trying to get to center.
The Cougars break back onto it, and it's picked up by Tyrone Sobry.
Sobry to center.
He fires it into the Penticton zone.
Britton Olstad lost it.
Gazowski holds it in.
Gazowski lost the handle on the puck, got it taken right off his stick.
Here's Drancek.
Drancek flicks it ahead to Britton Olstad.
He trying to go and get to this against Anisimov in below the goal line.
Lee Shergot trying to get onto it, but Olstad takes it away again.
Olstad chips it in behind the goal.
Sean Burak at the right circle, goes down low.
It's picked up now by Drancek.
Sam Drancek to the right circle.
He spins and shoots.
Save.
Rebound, scores!
They score.
Jacob Kwaczneika and the Penticton Vees, in their first year of WHL existence, are headed to the Western Conference Final.
Kwaczneika picks up the rebound two-sixteen into overtime, and the Penticton Vees would score.
And for Kwaczneika, that is his team-leading seventh goal of the playoffs.
He will never score a bigger one, has not scored a bigger one for this Penticton Hockey Club.
In stunning fashion, the Penticton Vees have erased a two-nothing deficit and won this game three-two in overtime.
Kwaczneika scoring for Penticton.
This Prince George Cougar crowd standing as they want to salute their Prince George Cougars for what was a remarkable season.
But it is a season that has come to a close.
Ravensbergen made the first save.
Kwaczneika there with a gigantic goal at two-sixteen.
And now the fans are yelling, "Cougars!"
