Team heads to Kent next winter<\/b><\/p>\n
After starting their second-round playoff series with a bang, the Seattle Thunderbirds ended with a thud.<\/p>\n
One week after a 7-1 rout of Tri-City to begin the Western Hockey League Western Conference semifinals, the Thunderbirds saw their season come to an end last Friday night with a 4-0 loss to the Americans in Kennewick.<\/p>\n
Tri-City won the best-of-7 set, four games to one, and will meet the winner of the Spokane-Vancouver series for the conference championship.<\/p>\n
After its convincing Game 1 victory, Seattle managed just four more goals in the next four games, and was shut out twice.<\/p>\n
The upcoming offseason for the T-birds will include getting ready for their move to the new Kent Events Center. Seattle will begin the 2008-09 season next September in KeyArena while the final touches are put on the Kent facility.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s new home, which will seat 6,025 fans, is expected to be ready in January.<\/p>\n
Tri-City scored the only goal it would need last Friday at 14:59 of the first period off the stick of Jason Reese. The Americans increased their lead to 2-0 by the end of two periods, then added another pair of goals in the third.<\/p>\n
The Thunderbirds outshot Tri-City, 32-25, but were unable to get a puck past Chet Pickard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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