The Spokane Chiefs defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-2 Saturday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This was the first of three consecutive games between the teams. They meet again on Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. at the ShoWare Center and then at 7:05 Wednesday at Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane (24-12-1-0) opened the scoring at 15:26 of the first period when Dylan Walchuk scored. Tyler King and Jason Fram had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Chiefs outshot the T-Birds 20-12 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle (16-20-2-1) tied the game 1-1 at 5:22 of the second period with an unassisted power-play goal. Jesse Forsberg got to a loose puck in the neutral zone and skated into the Spokane zone. Forsberg put a wrist shot on goal from between the circles that beat Spokane goalie Eric Williams on the glove side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds took a 2-1 lead at 7:21 of the second. Branden Troock moved the puck up the left board to Griffin Foulk at the left point. Foulk wristed a shot towards Williams. Alexander Delnov slid into the high slot on Foulk’s shot and tipped it. The puck went past a lunging Williams on the stick side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Chiefs tied the game 2-2 at 8:28 of the second on Collin Valcourt’s eighth goal of the season. Connor Chartier had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane went in front 3-2 at 11:40 of the second when Mike Aviani scored. Jackson Playfair and Todd Fiddler were credited with the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane had a 39-24 advantage in shots after two periods by outshooting the T-Birds 19-12 in the second period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Blake Gal scored a five-on-three power-play goal at 11:41 of the third to extend the Chiefs lead to 4-2. Brenden Kichton and Reid Gow had assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kichton added a four-on-four goal at 13:32 of the third for the Chiefs fifth goal of the game. Todd Fiddler and Aviani were credited with the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Brandon Glover stopped 45 of 50 shots and his record is now 15-16-2-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Williams made 34 saves on 36 shots and his record is now 19-10-1-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
T-Birds single game tickets 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 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<\/strong> – 1, Spokane, Walchuk 11 (King, Fram), 15:26. Penalties – Elliot, Sea (roughing), 5:00. Foulk, Sea (high-sticking), 7:54. Aviani, Spo (roughing), 8:24. Troock, Sea (high-sticking), 11:04. Walchuk, Spo (charging), 13:06.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 2, Seattle, Forsberg 4 5:22 (pp). 3, Seattle, Delnov 13 (Foulk, Troock), 7:21. 4, Spokane, Valcourt 8 (Chartier), 8:28. 5, Spokane, Aviani 19 (Playfair, Fiddler), 11:40. Penalties – Wedman, Spo (high-sticking), 4:00. Hauf, Sea (tripping), 15:41<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 6, Spokane, Gal 7 (Kichton, Gow), 11:41 (pp). 7, Spokane, Kichton 11 (Fiddler, Aviani), 13:32. Penalties – McIntosh, Spo (interference), 4:28. Hickman Sea (hooking), 5:26. Hickman, Sea (roughing), 10:07. Wardley, Sea (cross checking), 11:29. Gal, Spo (tripping), 11:52. Sanvido, Sea (tripping), 13:03. Proft, Spo (major-fighting), 19:28. Troock, Sea (major-fighting), 19:28. Wedman, Spo (major-fighting, game misconduct), 19:28. Wardley, Sea (major-fighting, 2 game misconducts), 19:28. Elliot, Sea (roughing), 19:50.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 12-12-12 36, Spokane 20-19-11 50. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 50 shots-45 saves (15-16-2-1); Spokane, Williams 36-34 (19-10-1-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-5; Spokane 2-7. A – 4,191. Referee – Jason Cramer, Steve Papp. Linesmen – Kevin Boris, Chris Sweeting.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Spokane Chiefs defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-2 Saturday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734"}],"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=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}