Brendan Shinnimin scored four goals and Patrick Holland had four assists for the Tri-City Americans <\/a>in a 5-1 victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds<\/a> Sunday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle plays their next five games on the road. First up, the T-Birds travel to Kennewick to face the Americans on Tuesday, February 28, at the Toyota Center at 7:05 p.m. Seattle then faces the Everett Silvertips Friday, March 2, at the Comcast Arena at 7:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle (21-38-1-1) is in eighth in the Western Conference playoff standings, two points behind the seventh place Victoria Royals. The T-Birds are one point ahead of the ninth place Silvertips.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tri-City (44-15-1-2) scored two goals in the last five minutes of the first period to give them a 2-0 lead. Shinnimin scored the Americans first goal of the night at 16:17. Patrick Holland had the only assist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shinnimin scored for Tri-City on a power-play goal at 19:04 of the first. Adam Hughesman and Holland had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Americans led the T-Birds 15-2 in shots on goal after the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tri-City took a 3-0 lead at 1:21 of the second period on a five-on-three power-play goal from Shinnimin, his third of the night. Justin Feser had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shinnimin scored his and the Americans’ fourth goal of the game at 11:23 on a power play. Holland is credited with the single assist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tri-City led Seattle 27-9 in shots after two periods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Hughesman scored the Americans’ fifth goal of the night on a power play at 3:06 of the third. Shinnimin and Holland had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle got on the board with a goal from Luke Lockhart at 12:23 of the third. Shea Theodore passed the puck to Burke Gallimore who carried it to the left circle. Gallimore took a shot but that was stopped by Tri-City goalie Ty Rimmer’s pads. Lockhart got the rebound and shot the puck past Rimmer’s right side to score his 12th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Americans finished with a 34-21 advantage in shots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Daniel Cotton stopped 29 on 34 shots for Seattle bringing his record to 0-7-0-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rimmer made 20 saves on 21 shots for Tri-City increasing his record to 26-10-0-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n T-Birds single game tickets for the 2011-12 season are available online at the T-Birds website<\/a> and at the ShoWare Center box office. The ShoWare Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday game days at 10 a.m. and Sunday game days at noon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n