The Kamloops Blazers<\/a> defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds<\/a> 8-2 Saturday night at the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops, British Colubmia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kamloops (16-7-1-0) took a 1-0 lead at 17:05 of the first period on an unassisted goal from Tim Bozun.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Blazers outshot the T-Bird 19-3 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Blazers went in front 2-0 at 2:03 of the second period on Brendan Ranford’s 13th goal of the season. Brady Gaudet had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle (10-12-0-1) cut the Blazers lead to one goal when Luke Lockhart scored a power-play goal at 2:47 of the second. Shea Theodore put a slap shot on goal with Lockhart standing in front of Kamloops goalie Cole Cheveldave. Lockhart tipped Theodore’s shot over Cheveldave’s right should for his fourth goal of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Cole Ully extended the Blazers lead to 3-1 at 9:21 of the second with his third goal of the year. Ranford and Marek Hrbas had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Logan McVeigh scored an unassisted goal at 11:07 of the second to give Kamloops a 4-1 lead after two periods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kamloops led in shots, 33-13, after two periods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dylan Willick made it a 5-1 Kamloops lead when he scored a power-play goal at 3:45 of third period. McVeigh and Matt Needham had the assists on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Colin Smith scored at 5:25 of third to give the Blazers a 6-1 lead. Austin Madaisky and Gaudet were credited with the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Burke Gallimore scored at 6:05 of the third to get the T-Birds second goal of the game. Gallimore beat Cheveldave with a wrist shot from the top of the slot with Lockhart screening the goalie. Brad Deagle had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Blazers scored 51 seconds after the T-Birds second goal to make it a 7-2 lead. Ryan Haines scored off an assist from Brock Balson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Madaisky added a power-play goal at 18:51 of the third for the Blazers final goal of the game. Gaudet and McVeigh had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle goalie Daniel Cotton made 42 saves on 50 shots and his record fell to 0-3-0-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Cheveldave improved his record to 9-3-1-0 by stopping 17 of 19 shots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The T-Birds face the Swift Current Broncos on Tuesday at 7:05pm at ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n T-Birds single game tickets for the 2011-12 season are available online at the T-Birds website 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 T-Birds season tickets are currently on sale. Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period – 1, Kamloops, Bozon 9 (Gaudet), 17:05. Penalties – Ranford, Kam (double-minor high-sticking), 1:50.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period – 2, Kamloops, Ranford 13 (Schaber), 2:03. 3, Seattle, Lockhart 4 (Theodore), 2:47 (pp). 4, Kamloops, Ully 3 (Ranford, Hrbas), 9:21. 5, Kamloops, McVeigh 4, 11:07. Penalties – Gaudet, Kam (checking from behind), 2:30. Sanvido, Sea (tripping), 13:34<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period – 6, Kamloops, Willick 14 (McVeigh, Needham), 3:45 (pp). 7, Kamloops, Smith 15 (Madaisky, Gaudet), 5:25. 8, Seattle, Gallimore 12 (Deagle), 6:05. 9, Kamloops, Haines 3 (Balson), 6:56. 10, Kamloops, Madaisky 4 (Gaudet, McVeigh), 18:51 (pp). Penalties – Sutter, Sea (holding), 3:16. Machacek, Sea (major-check to the head, major-fighting, game misconduct), 17:05. Ranford, Kam (instigator, major-fighting, game misconduct), 17:05.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 3-10-6 19. Kamloops 19-14-17 50 Goalies – Seattle, Cotton 50 shots-42 saves (0-3-0-0); Kamloops, Cheveldave 19-17 (9-3-1-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-3; Kamloops 2-3. A – 4,005. Referee – Adam Griffiths, Devin Klein. Linesmen – Mike Boisvert, Matt Thurston.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kamloops Blazers defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 8-2 Saturday night at the Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops, British Colubmia.<\/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-11449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449"}],"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=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}