Landon Bow made 23 saves to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 5-0 win over the Everett Silvertips on Wednesday night at Xfinity Arena in Everett to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven WHL playoff series.
Game 4 of the second-round playoff series is 7:35 p.m. Friday in Everett, with the series returning to Kent for Game 5 at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at the ShoWare Center.
The shutout was Bow’s second of the playoffs.
Mathew Barzal and Nolan Volcan each had three assists. Defense partners Ethan Bear and Turner Ottenbreit each had a goal and an assist.
The T-Birds killed off three Everett power plays in the first 12 minutes of the first period.
Seattle took a 1-0 lead at 1:39 of the second period on Scott Eansor’s third goal of the playoffs.
The T-Birds took a 2-0 lead at 9:14 of the second on a Bear goal.
Keegan Kolesar put the T-Birds in front 3-0 at 16:08 of the second with a carbon copy of the Bear goal. Barzal had the puck in the left circle and found Kolesar in the high slot. Kolesar beat Carter Hart with a wrist shot on the glove side with Volcan screening Hart.
Everett’s Dawson Leedahl was called for a kneeing major penalty on Kolesar with 6:53 left in the third period. The T-Birds capitalized on the five-minute power play with two power-play goals.
Volcan passed the puck from the right corner to Ottenbreit in the slot. Ottenbreit beat Hart with a wrist shot for his first goal of the playoffs.
Jerret Smith passed puck from the right corner to Barzal behind the net. Barzal found Donovan Neuls in the low left circle. Neuls one-timed the pass from Barzal and put the puck through Hart at 15:07 of third.
Everett pulled Hart and replaced him with Mario Petit after the fifth Seattle goal. Hart stopped 26 of 31 shots in the loss. Petit had one save in just less than five minutes of action.
Seattle outshot Everett 15-5 in the third period and 32-23 in the game.
Tickets
Single-game tickets are on sale on the T-Birds website and at the ShoWare Center box office. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday game days at noon.
SCORING SUMMARY
First period – No scoring. Penalties – Barzal, Sea (tripping), 4:17. Ottenbreit, Sea (charging), 7:49. Hauf, Sea (checking from behind), 10:30.
Second period – 1, Seattle, Eansor 3 (Bear, Ottenbreit), 1:39. 2, Seattle, Bear 3 (Barzal, Volcan), 9:14. 3, Seattle, Kolesar 5 (Barzal, Volcan), 16:08. Penalties – Bear, Sea (kneeing), 4:08. Khomenko, Evt (goaltender interference), 10:48.
Third period – 4, Seattle, Ottenbreit 1 (Volcan, Leth), 14:10 (pp). 5, Seattle, Neuls 2 (Barzal, Smith), 15:07 (pp). Penalties – Eansor, Sea (cross checking), 4:05. Leedahl, Evt (major-kneeing, game misconduct), 13:07.
Shots on goal – Seattle 7-10-15 32 Everett 11-7-5 23. Goalies – Seattle, Bow 23 shots-23 saves (6-1); Everett, Hart 31-26 (2-2), Petit 1-1. Power plays – Seattle 2-2; Everett 0-5. A – 3,232. Referees – Reid Anderson, Brett Iverson. Linesmen – Adam Brastad, Ron Dietterle.
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