It all comes down to one game for the Seattle Thunderbirds and Kelowna Rockets in their first-round WHL playoff series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Myles Bell scored the game-winning goal at 10:39 of overtime Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center to give the Rockets a 4-3 win and tie the series 3-3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Game 7 is 7:05 tonight at Prospera Place in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kelowna took a 1-0 lead 22 seconds into the game when Cody Fowlie scored. Tyson Baillie and Dylan McKinlay had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle came right back and tied the game 1-1 at 2:40 of the first period on an unassisted goal from Connor Sanvido. Sanvido got to a loose puck along the right boards and headed towards Kelowna goalie Jordon Cooke. Sanvido beat Cooke over the glove for his first goal of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds went in front 2-1 at 8:33 of the first. Justin Hickman moved the puck into the Kelowna zone on the left side and then passed to Riley Sheen in the left circle. Sheen took a shot that Cooke stopped but Adam Kambeitz got the rebound. Kambeitz beat a sprawling Cooke for the go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Luke Lockhart put the T-Birds in front, 3-1, 50 seconds after their second goal. Roberts Lipsbergs made a big hit in the left corner to free the puck from a Kelowna defenseman. Lipsbergs carried the puck around the net and centered to Lockhart coming into the slot. Lockhart beat Cooke high for the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Rockets cut the T-Birds to one goal at 14:56 of the first when Tyrell Goulbourne scored. Damon Severson and Nick Merkley were credited with the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kelowna tied the game 3-3 at 16:20 of the first on Fowlie’s second goal of the game. Baillie and Madison Bowey had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kelowna outshot Seattle 20-11 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Rockets led in shots 43-21 after two periods by outshooting the T-Birds 23-10 in the second period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds killed off a five-minute major penalty to Justin Hickman for the last 3:35 of the second period and first 1:25 of the third period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds outshot the Rockets 15-12 in the third period. The Rockets had a 55-36 advantage in shots after 60 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds outshot the Rockets 7-4 in overtime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Brandon Glover stopped 55 of 59 shots and his record in the playoffs is 3-3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cooke made 40 saves on 43 shots and his record is now 3-3 in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period<\/strong> – 1, Kelowna, Fowlie 2 (Baillie, McKinlay), :22. 2, Seattle, Sanvido 1, 2:40. 3, Seattle, Kambeitz 1 (Hickman, Sheen), 8:33. 4, Seattle, Lockhart 3 (Lipsbergs), 9:23. 5, Kelowna, Goulbourne 1 (Severson, Merkley), 14:56. 6, Kelowna, Fowlie 3 (BaIlie, Bowey), 16:20. Penalties – No penalties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – No scoring. Penalties – Hickman, Sea (major-checking to the head, game misconduct), 16:25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – No scoring. Penalties – Olsen, Kel (slashing), 5:25. Bell, Kel (boarding), 10:30.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Overtime<\/strong> – 7, Kelowna, Bell 4 (Martin, Severson), 10:39. Penalties – No penalties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 11-10-15-7 43, Kelowna 20-23-12-4 59. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 59 shots-55 saves (3-3); Kelowna, Cooke 43-40 (3-3). Power plays – Seattle 0-2; Kelowna 0-1. A – 4,344. Referees –<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It all comes down to one game for the Seattle Thunderbirds and Kelowna Rockets in their first-round WHL playoff series. Myles Bell scored the game-winning goal at 10:39 of overtime Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center to give the Rockets a 4-3 win and tie the series 3-3. Game 7 is 7:05 tonight at Prospera Place in British Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506"}],"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=18506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}