Giants and Blazers both missing key players for home-and-home series

The Vancouver Giants and Kamloops Blazers will offer up some ideas this weekend on the age-old question of whether a top defenceman is of greater value to a team than a No. 1 goalie or vice versa.
The Giants will be missing over-age rearguard Darian Skeoch to suspension and 16-year-old rookie phenom blue liner Bowen Byram to the Under-17 World Challenge tournament for both ends of a home-and-home set against the Blazers. Kamloops, meanwhile, is expected to be without starting netminder Dylan Fer