The Tri-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 Sunday night at the ShoWare Center in the T-Birds season finale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The 2010-2011 Seattle Thunderbirds season awards were announced after the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Most Valuable Players were Brenden Dillon and Calvin Pickard. Dillon finished the season with 8 goals and 51 assists, Pickard finished the season with a .916 save percentage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Rookie of the Year was Marcel Noebels. Noebels finished the season with 28 goals and 26 assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Top Scorer was Burke Gallimore, who scored 34 goals and had 36 assists on the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Defenseman of the Year and Most Improved Award was given to Dillon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Humanitarian Award was given to Travis Toomey.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Scholastic Award was given to Mitch Elliot. Elliot attends Kent-Meridian High School.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Most Dedicated Award was given to Austin Frank and Michael Salmon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds opened the game’s scoring at 2:09 of the first period. Noebels sent a hard wrist shot ringing off the underside of the crossbar and in the back of the net for his 28th goal of the year. Noebels’ goal was unassisted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Americans tied the game up 1-1 at 15:30 of the first period. Drydn Dow scored, assisted by Lucas Nickles and Marcus Messier.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds regained the lead just before the end of the first period. Connor Sanvido scored his second goal of the season to take the 2-1 lead, assisted by Luke Lockhart at 18:58.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The first period would end with Seattle holding the 2-1 advantage, while Tri-City held a 14-7 shot advantage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Americans scored the second period’s lone goal in the second period at 6:30. Jordan Messier scored, assisted by Tyler Schmidt and Patrick Holland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
After forty minutes, Tri-Cities had outshot Seattle 21-16.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tri-Cities scored first in the third period when Justin Feser scored, assisted by Jordan Messier and Holland on the power-play at 5:50.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle knotted the game up at 3-3 after Tyler Alos backhanded a clean rebound to the back of the net. Lockhart and Erik Bonsor assisted on the goal at 16:16 of the third.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds outshot the Americans 16-9 during the third period, leaving them with a 32-30 advantage at the end of regulation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tri-Cities netted the game winner at 2:39 of the overtime period. Kruise Reddick scored, assisted by Jordan Messier and Connor Rankin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Americans outshot the T-Birds 2-1 in the shootout, but the T-Birds outshot the Americans 33-32 for the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Salmon (0-2-1-1) made 28 saves on 32 shots for the Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Chris Driedger (6-6-0-1) made 30 saves on 33 shots for the Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period – <\/strong>1, Seattle, Noebels 28 (unassisted), 2:09. 2, Tri-Cities, Dow 4 (Nickels, Messier), 15:30. 3, Seattle Sanvido 2 (Lockhart), 18:58. Penalties – <\/strong>Doty, Sea (roughing), 7:48. Doty, Sea (10-minute misconduct), 7:48.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period – <\/strong>4, Tri-Cities, Messier J 26 (Schmidt, Holland), 6:30. Penalties – <\/strong>Rankin, Tri (tripping), 6:39. Alos, Sea (slashing), 13:50. Schmidt, Tri (slashing), 14:54. Toomey, Sea (roughing), 20:00.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period – <\/strong>5, Tri-Cities, Feser 26 (Messier J, Holland), 5:50 (PP). 6, Seattle, Alos 6 (Lockhart, Bonsor), 16:16. Penalties – <\/strong>Bonsor, Sea (boarding), 5:02.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Overtime – <\/strong>7, Tri-Cities, Reddick 20 (Messier J, Rankin), 2:39. Penalties – <\/strong>No Penalties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – <\/strong>Seattle 7-9-16-1 33. Tri-City 14-7-9-2 32. Goalies – <\/strong>Seattle, Salmon 32 shots-28 saves (0-2-1-1); Tri-City, Driedger 33-30 (6-6-0-1). Power plays – <\/strong>Seattle 0-2; Tri-City 1-4. A – <\/strong>3,494. Referee – <\/strong>Colby Smith, Trevor Hansen. Linesmen – <\/strong>Justin Hull, Chris Sweeting.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tri-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 Sunday night at the ShoWare Center in the T-Birds season finale. The 2010-2011 Seattle Thunderbirds season awards were announced after the game. The Most Valuable Players were Brenden Dillon and Calvin Pickard. Dillon finished the season with 8 goals and 51 assists, Pickard finished the season with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}