The Seattle Thunderbirds earned a 3-1 victory over the Kamloops Blazers on Sunday evening at ShoWare Center behind two goals from Roberts Lipsbergs and good goaltending from Brandon Glover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Glover stopped 30 of 31 shots to get the win in his third game in three nights. His record improves to 13-10-1-0 with the win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The first period ended scoreless, with each team failing to convert on the power play. Glover stopped all 12 shots in the period for Seattle, while Kamloops’ (21-7-1-2) Taran Kozun stopped all nine shots he saw.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Thunderbirds (14-13-1-0) took a 1-0 lead midway through the second period on Roberts Lipsbergs 12th goal of the year. Connor Honey knocked the puck past a pinching Blazers defender to start a two-on-one rush up the ice with Lipsbergs. Honey hesitated and then passed the puck across to Lipsbergs who faked Kozun and put a backhander in the open net. The goal came at 9:05 of the period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Both teams had several power plays during the period but failed to capitalize. Shots for the second frame were 9-7 Seattle, and 19-18 Kamloops overall after two periods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In the third period, Kamloops tied the game at 1-1 off Joe Kornelsen’s backhand goal. Charles Inglis and Tyler Bell had the assists for Kamloops with the goal coming at 13:29.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle responded three minutes later when Justin Hickman scored his seventh of the year. Riley Sheen chased a Blazer’s defender into their zone and managed to get the puck to a trailing Hickman who rifled a snap shot past Kozun to give the T-Birds a 2-1 lead late in the third. The goal came at 16:52 of the period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Lipsbergs scored his second goal of the game with 40 seconds remaining to seal the win for Seattle. He got a breakout pass from Jesse Forsberg along the left hash marks and threw the puck down the rink and into the empty net to make take the final tally to 3-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It was Lipsbergs’ 13th goal of the year and third in the past two games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Shots in the third period were 13-12 Seattle, and ended 31-31 overall. Kozun made 29 saves for Kamloops and his record is now 5-2-1-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2012-13 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 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> – No Scoring. Penalties – Wray, Sea (boarding), 11:04. Hrbas, Kam (tripping), 13:43.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 1, Seattle, Lipsbergs 12 (Honey), 9:05. Penalties – Hauf, Sea (interference), 2:26. Connolly, Kam (holding), 11:19. Lipsbergs, Sea (boarding), 12:35. Macklin, Kam (tripping), 15:32. Lipsbergs, Sea (hooking), 17:13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 2, Kornelsen 1 (Inglis, Bell), 13:29. 3, Seattle, Hickman 7 (Sheen), 16:52. 4, Seattle, Lipsbergs 13 (Forsberg), 19:20. Penalties – Grist, Kam (slashing), 2:11. Hansen, Kam (charging), 5:38. Wardley, Sea (roughing, misconduct), 19:31.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 9-9-13 31, Kamloops 12-7-12 31. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 31 shots-30 saves (13-10-1-0); Kamloops, Kozun 31-29 (5-2-1-1). Power plays – Seattle 0-5; Kamloops 0-5. A – 2,550. Referee – Ian Croft. Linesmen – Zach Brooks, Kevin Boris.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Seattle Thunderbirds earned a 3-1 victory over the Kamloops Blazers on Sunday evening at ShoWare Center behind two goals from Roberts Lipsbergs and good goaltending from Brandon Glover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22033","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\/22033"}],"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=22033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22033"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}