The Kootenay Ice defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 6-2 Nov. 27 at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
The Ice were led by a two-goal effort from Steele Boomer, and a solid showing by Ice netminder Nathan Lieuwen who made 23 saves on 25 shots.<\/p>\n
Luke Lockhart picked up the game’s first goal on a wrist shot at 8:44 of the first period. Kootenay was unable to clear on the penalty kill and Brenden Dillon fed Lockhart for his 11th of the season to give the T-Birds the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
After a scramble around Seattle’s net, Kootenay evened the game at 1-1 on a power-play goal by Steele Boomer. Kevin King and Matt Fraser assisted on the goal at 13:07 of the first.<\/p>\n
Later in the period, the Ice scored two more power-play goals in just more than a minute. At 17:33, Boomer netted his second goal of the game, assisted by Jagger Dirk and Fraser to give the Ice the 2-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
At 18:43, King extended the Kootenay lead to 3-1 in what proved to be the game-winning goal. Brayden McNabb had the only assist.<\/p>\n
After one period of play the Ice led the T-Birds in shots 17 to 5.<\/p>\n
The Ice extended their lead to 4-1 at 1:35 of the second period when Drew Czerwonka deflected a James Martin shot from the blue line past goalie Calvin Pickard. Joe Antilla also picked up an assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
Jesse Ismond put the Ice up 5-1 at 5:03 of the second period. King assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
After the fifth Ice goal Michael Salmon replaced Pickard in net. Pickard made 18 saves on 23 shots and his record falls to 11-6-2-4.<\/p>\n
The Ice scored again before then end of the second on a goal from Sam Reinhart at 18:38. Antilla had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
Kootenay (17-7-0-2) outshot Seattle 12-8 in the second period and led 29-13 in total shots after two periods.<\/p>\n
Travis Bobbee scored the Thunderbirds (11-6-3-4) second goal of the night at 9:48 of the third period. Charles Wells and Erik Bonsor assisted Bobbee on the goal that cut Kootenay’s lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds outshot the Ice 12 to 9 in the third period but Kootenay held a 38-25 advantage in shots for the game.<\/p>\n
Salmon stopped 14 of 15 shots in 34 minutes of action.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds next game is Tuesday, November 30, against the Medicine Hat Tigers at ShoWare Center at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/p>\n
First period – 1, Seattle, Lockhart 11 (Dillon), 8:44 (pp). 1, Kootenay, Boomer 5 (King, Fraser), 13:07 (pp). 2, Kootenay, Boomer 6 (Dirk, Fraser), 17:33 (pp). 3, Kootenay, King 12 (McNabb), 18:43 (pp). Penalties – Boomer, Ktn (slashing), :19. Ismond, Ktn (slashing), 8:17. Wells, Sea (elbowing), 12:02. Lund, Sea (roughing), 17:16. Doty, Sea (double-minor roughing), 17:16. Czerwonka, Ktn (roughing), 17:16.<\/p>\n
Second period – 4, Kootenay, Czerwonka 7 (Martin, Antilla), 1:35. 5, Kootenay, Ismond 7 (King), 5:03. 6 Kootenay, Reinhart 1 (Antilla), 18:38. Penalties – Dillon, Sea (unsportsmanlike conduct), :45. McNabb, Ktn (unsportsmanlike conduct), :45. Boomer, Ktn (cross-checking) 13:17.<\/p>\n
Third period – 2 Seattle, Bobbee 3 (Wells, Bonsor), 9:48. Penalties – McNabb, Ktn (tripping), 2:16. Ismond, Ktn (hooking), 7:15.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal – Seattle 5-8-12 25. Kootenay 17-12-9 38. Goalies – Seattle, Pickard 23 shots-18 saves (11-6-2-4) Salmon 15- 14; Kootenay, Lieuwen 25-23 (12-5-0-1). Power plays – Seattle 1-5; Kootenay 3-3. A – 4,074. Referee – Matt Kirk, Jason Nissen. Linesmen – Zach Brooks, Kiel Murchison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Kootenay Ice defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 6-2 Nov. 27 at the ShoWare Center.
\nThe Ice were led by a two-goal effort from Steele Boomer, and a solid showing by Ice netminder Nathan Lieuwen who made 23 saves on 25 shots.
\nLuke Lockhart picked up the game’s first goal on a wrist shot at 8:44 of the first period. Kootenay was unable to clear on the penalty kill and Brenden Dillon fed Lockhart for his 11th of the season to give the T-Birds the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}