The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-0 Saturday night at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds are 32-16-2-3, fourth in the Western Conference playoff standings. They are two points behind Victoria and two points ahead Spokane.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds face the Everett Silvertips at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Portland (36-12-2-3) took a 1-0 lead at 5:50 of the second period on a five-on-three power-play goal by Nic Petan. Petan finished off a passing play from Oliver Bjorkstrand and Derrick Pouliot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Winterhawks extended the lead to 2-0 with on an unassisted shorthanded goal by Adam Rossignol at 7:44 of the third period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bjorkstrand scored a power-play goal at 16:29 of the third to give the Winterhawks a 3-0 lead. Petan and Pouliot had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Taran Kozun made 46 saves on 49 shots and his record is now 12-20-2-1. The loss was his first since joining the T-Birds at the trade deadline from the Kamloops Blazers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Portland goalie Brendan Burke stopped 16 shots to get the win and shutout. His record is now 29-10-2-2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2013-14 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
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period<\/strong> – No scoring. Penalties – Price, Por (roughing), 7:06. Henry, Sea (roughing), 7:06. Henry, Sea (hooking), 9:16. Hickman, Sea (cross checking), 15:36. Troock, Sea (hooking), 18:40.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 1, Portland, Petan 28 (Bjorkstrand, Pouliot), 5:50 (pp). Penalties – Kolesar, Sea (major-fighting, game misconduct), 3:37. Smith, Sea (roughing), 5:20. Troock, Sea (roughing), 9:56.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 2, Portland, Rossignol 3, 7:44 (sh). 3, Portland, Bjorkstrand 37 (Petan, Pouliot), 16:39 (pp). Penalties – Yakubowksi, Sea (checking from behind), 3:35. De Leo, Por (holding), 6:03. Troock, Sea (slashing), 16:07. Haar, Por (hooking), 19:12.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal <\/strong>– Seattle 8-2-6 16, Portland 11-22-16 49. Goalies <\/strong>– Seattle, Kozun 49 shots-46 saves (12-20-2-1); Portland, Burke 16-16 (29-10-2-2). Power plays<\/strong> – Seattle 0-2; Portland 2-8. A – 6,861. Referees <\/strong>– Curtis Marouelli, Derek Zalaski. Linesmen – Bevan Mills, Nathan Van Oosten.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-0 Saturday night at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.<\/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-13157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157"}],"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=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}