{"id":1015,"date":"2016-01-04T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/americans-drop-t-birds-4-2-whl\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:45:30","slug":"americans-drop-t-birds-4-2-whl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/americans-drop-t-birds-4-2-whl\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans drop T-Birds, 4-2 | WHL"},"content":{"rendered":"
Parker Bowles had two goals to lead his Tri-City Americans to a 4-2 Western Hockey Leage win over the Seattle Thunderbirds on Saturday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tri-City (16-20-2-0) built a 2-0 lead before Seattle (20-14-3-0) responded at 16:18 of the first period with a power-play goal. Nick Holowko sent the puck to Jarret Smith at the left point. Smith crossed the puck to Turner Ottenbrei, who took a slap shot with traffic in front of Tri-City goalie Evan Sarthou. Ottenbreit’s shot found the top left corner of the net for his third goal of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle outshot Tri-City 16-6 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bowles scored a power-play goal at 3:18 of the second period to give the Americans a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds replaced Flodell with Taz Burman after the third Americans goal. Flodell had five saves on eight shots and his record is now 13-10-3-0 on the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Josh Uhrich cut the Tri-City lead back to one goal at 6:56 of the second. Owen Seidel passed the puck from the T-Birds zone to Uhrich at center ice to spring him on a partial breakaway. Uhrich came down the left wing and snapped the puck over Sarthou’s glove for the goal. The goal was Uhrich’s first as a T-Bird.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tri-City outshot Seattle 7-5 in the second period. The T-Birds led 21-13 in shots after two periods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Morgan Geekie scored at 15:02 of the third period to get the Americans fourth goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Burman made 13 saves on 14 shots in 24 minutes of action. Sarthou had 27 saves 29 shots and his record is now 13-18-2-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n