The Tri-City Americans scored three first-period goals to defeat the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-1 Tuesday night at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.
Despite the loss, the T-Birds remained in eighth place in the Western Conference playoff standings. They are two points behind the seventh-place Victoria Royals, who lost to the Spokane Chiefs, 4-2 on Tuesday night. The 10th-place Prince George Cougars also lost, 3-2, to the Medicine Hat Tigers and did not gain any ground on the T-Birds. The Everett Silvertips, in ninth place, were idle Tuesday night.
The top eight teams advance to the playoffs.
The T-Birds play the Silvertips at 7:35 p.m. Friday at the Comcast Arena in Everett.
Patrick Holland scored a power-play goal at 3:20 of the first to give the Americans a 1-0 lead. Adam Hughesman and Brendan Shinnimin had the assists.
Connor Rankin put the Americans in front 2-0 at 14:41 of the first. Shinnimin and Holland were credited with the assists.
Tri-City (45-15-1-2) went in front 3-0 at 16:20 of the first on a goal from Justin Feser. Jordan Messier had the only assist.
Tri-City outshot Seattle 20-10 in the first period.
Seattle (21-39-1-1) outshot Tri-City 11-10 in a scoreless second period.
Connor Sanvido cut the Americans lead to two goals at 18:33 of the third period with a power-play goal. Sanvido beat Tri-City goalie Eric Comrie over the blocker with a hard wrist shot. Shea Theodore and Brendan Rouse had the assists.
The Americans finished with a 42-32 advantage in shots on goal.
Seattle goalie Daniel Cotton made 39 saves on 42 shots and his record falls to 0-8-0-0.
Comrie stopped 31 of 32 shots and his record is now 19-5-1-1.
SCORING SUMMARY
First period – 1, Tri-City, Holland 24 (Hughesman, Shinnimin), 3:20 (pp). 2, Tri-City, Rankin 17 (Shinnimin, Holland), 14:41. 3, Tri-City, Feser 32 (J. Messier), 16:20. Penalties – Wardley, Tri (tripping), 1:35. Dallman, Tri (tripping), 8:28. Wagner, Tri (boarding), 16:29.
Second period – No scoring. Penalties – Sanvido, Sea (major-fighting), 2:21. Topping, Sea (major-fighting), 2:21. Dow, Tri (major-fighting), 6:43. Lockhart, Sea (major-fighting), 6:43. Hickman, Sea (10-minute misconduct), 6:43. Yuen, Tri (10-minute misconduct), 6:43. Doty, Sea (unsportsmanlike conduct), 6:56. Comrie, Tri (holding opponents stick-served by Stromwall), 9:49. Ryckman, Tri (roughing), 13:04.
Third period – 4, Seattle, Sanvido 5 (Theodore, Rouse), 18:33 (pp). Penalties – Hickman, Sea (boarding, major-fighting), 3:11. Ryckman, Tri (instigator, major-fighting, 10-minute misconduct), 3:11. Deagle, Sea (roughing), 4:00. Nickles, Tri (unsportsmanlike conduct), 9:42. Doty, Sea (major-fighting), 15:27. Walter, Tri (major-fighting), 15:27. Stromwall, Tri (tripping), 17:22.
Shots on goal – Seattle 10-11-11 32. Tri-City 20-10-12 42. Goalies – Seattle, Cotton 42 shots-39 saves (0-8-0-0); Tri-City, Comrie 32-31 (19-5-1-1). Power plays – Seattle 1-5; Tri-City 1-4. A – 3,679. Referee – Jeff Ingram, Steve Papp. Linesmen – Tim Digby, Trevor Shively.
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