The Tri<\/span>-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds<\/span> 4-3 in overtime Saturday night at the ShoWare<\/span> Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle went up 1-0 at 12:35 of the first period on pretty play by Seth<\/span> Swenson<\/span> and Connor Sanvido<\/span>. Just as the T-Birds killed off a penalty Swenson<\/span> got control of the puck just inside the Seattle blue line. Swenson<\/span> skated up ice with<\/span> Sanvido<\/span> on his right and Justin Hickman coming out of the penalty box. Coming down the slot Swenson<\/span> toe-dragged the puck past an Americans defender, faked left forcing Tri<\/span>-City goalie Luke Lee-Knight to slide to his right. Then Swenson<\/span> dropped the puck back to Sanvido<\/span> who had a wide open net. Sanvido<\/span> easily put the puck into the net for his 12th<\/span> goal of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The T-Birds outshot the Americans 11-6 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle (19-29-4-1) took a 2-0 lead at 10:59 of the second period on Jesse Forsberg’s<\/span> fifth<\/span> goal of the year. Riley Sheen sent the puck to Hickman behind the Americans net. Hickman passed it to the Forsberg<\/span> at the left point. Forsberg<\/span> skated towards the high slot and took a wrist shot with<\/span> traffic in front of the net that beat Lee-Knight on the glove side.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tri<\/span>-City (31-19-1-2) cut the T-Birds lead to one goal when Parker Bowles<\/span> scored at 12:31 of the second. Zachary Yuen<\/span> and Justin Gutierrez had the assists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The T-Birds led in shots, 30-16, after two periods by outshooting the Americans 19-10 in the second period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Americans tied the game 2-2 at 9:01 of the third period when Malte<\/span> Stromwall<\/span> scored. Drydn<\/span> Dow and Parker Bowles<\/span> had the assists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Swenson<\/span> put the T-Birds in front 3-2 at 14:27 of the third when he scored on a breakaway. Connor Honey got the puck at the Tri<\/span>-City blue line and centered it to Swenson<\/span> entering the zone alone. Swenson<\/span> came down on Lee-Knight and beat him the glove side for the go-ahead goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tri<\/span>-City tied the game 3-3 at 18:27 when Justin Feser<\/span> scored with<\/span> Lee-Knight on the bench for an extra attacker. Both<\/span> teams had a player in the penalty box, so the goal was scored in four-on-four situation with<\/span> the goalie<\/span> pulled. Mitch Topping had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tri<\/span>-City outshot<\/span> Seattle 11-5 in the third period but Seattle led 35-27 in total shots after regulation play.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Feser<\/span> scored the game winner 27 seconds into the overtime when he put back a rebound. Stromwall<\/span> and Dow had the assists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle outshot Tri-City 35-28 in the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seattle goalie Brandon Glover made 24 saves on 28 shots and his record is now 18-21-4-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lee-Knight stopped 32 of 35 shots and his record is now 10-5-0-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The T-Birds travel to Victoria to take on the Royals on Tuesday and Wednesday. Both games are at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n For T-Birds tickets, go online at the team website or visit ShoWare<\/span> Center box office. The ShoWare<\/span> 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.<\/span> The T-Birds office is 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period<\/strong> – 1, Seattle, Sanvido<\/span> 12 (Swenson<\/span>), 12:35. Penalties – Gutierrez, Tri<\/span> (interference), 5:14. Hickman, Sea (goaltender interference), 10:25. Elliot, Sea (boarding), 15:52.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period <\/strong>– 2, Seattle, Forsberg<\/span> 5 (Hickman, Sheen), 10:59. 3, Tri<\/span>-City, Bowles<\/span> 17 (Yuen<\/span>, Gutierrez), 12:31. Penalties – Wardley<\/span>, Sea (major-fighting), 6:56. Walter, Tri<\/span> (major-fighting), 6:56. Yuen<\/span>, Tri<\/span> (interference), 13:17<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 4, Tri<\/span>-City, Stromwall<\/span> 16 (Dow, Bowles<\/span>), 9:01. 5, Seattle, Swenson<\/span> 15 (Honey, Kambeitz<\/span>), 14:27. 6, Tri<\/span>-City, Feser<\/span> 28 (Topping), 18:27. Penalties – Elliot, Sea (cross checking), 1:25. Gutierrez, Tri<\/span> (holding opponent’s stick), 5:16. Hauf<\/span>, Sea (hooking), 17:12. Stromwall<\/span>, Tri<\/span> (hooking), 17:53.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Overtime<\/strong> – 7, Tri-City, Feser 29 (Stromwall, Dow), :27. Penalties – No penalties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 11-19-5-0 35, Tri<\/span>-City 6-10-11-1 28. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 28 shots-24 saves (18-21-4-1); Tri<\/span>-City, Lee-Knight 35-32 (10-5-0-0). Power plays – Seattle 0-4; Tri<\/span>-City 0-4. A – 3,070. Referees – Pat Smith<\/span>. Linesmen – Nick Bilko<\/span>, Nathan Van Oosten<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tri-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 in overtime Saturday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280"}],"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=19280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}