The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 6-2 Saturday night at the Moda Center.<\/p>\n
Portland took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Cody Glass at 11:56 of the first period. Skyler McKenzie and Matthew Quigley had the assists.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds tied the game 1-1 on a power-play goal by Austin Strand at 13:42 of the first. Jarret Tyszka crossed the puck from the right point to Strand at the left point. Strand skated into the high slot and took a wrist shot that beat Portland goalie Cole Kehler low on the stick side. Nolan Volcan had the second assist.<\/p>\n
The Winterhawks went in front 2-1 on a goal by McKenzie at 16:01 of the first. Glass had the only assist.<\/p>\n
Portland extended the lead to 3-1 at 1:27 of the second period on a goal from Henri Jokiharju. Ryan Hughes and Joachim Blichfeld had the assists.<\/p>\n
Strand struck for a second power-play goal at 13:34 of the second to cut the Winterhawks lead to one. Strand came down the right wing with the puck and cut towards the net. Strand beat Kehler with a backhand shot from in close for his second goal of the game. Donovan Neuls and Jarret Tyszka had the assists.<\/p>\n
Matthew Quigley scored at 5:43 of the third period to give the Winterhawks a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Keoni Texeira had a power-play goal at 13:18 of the third and Brad Ginell scored at 16:19 of third to get Portland’s final two goals.<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Liam Hughes made his first start for Seattle since being acquired from the Edmonton Oil King and had 46 saves on 52 shots.<\/p>\n
Kehler had 14 saves on 16 shots.<\/p>\n
Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n The T-Birds’ next game is Tuesday in Kennewick against the Tri-City Americans at 7:05 p.m. at the Toyota Center. … The game against the Winterhawks on Saturday was the first game of a nine-game broadcast schedule on JOEtv. The T-Birds’ next home game is 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7. The game will be broadcast on JOEtv in the Seattle area. … Single-game tickets for the 2017-18 season are on sale online on the T-Birds website<\/a> and at the accesso ShoWare Center box office. Season tickets may be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n First period<\/strong> – 1, Portland, Glass 2 (McKenzie, Quigley), 11:56. 2, Seattle, Strand 1 (Tyszka, Volcan), 13:42 (pp). 3, Portland, McKenzie 2 (Glass), 16:01. Penalties – Wedman, Sea (tripping), 4:24. Ottenbreit, Sea (delay of game), 6:42. Blichfeld, Por (roughing), 11:56. Ormsby, Sea 15:37. MacEachern, Por (roughing), 15:37.<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 4, Seattle, Jokiharju 1 (Hughes, Blichfeld), 1:27. 5, Seattle, Strand 2 (Neuls, Tyszka), 13:34 (pp). Penalties – Wedman, Sea (boarding, major-fighting), 1:59. Gracie’s, Por (unsportsmanlike conduct, major-fighting), 1:59. Ottenbreit, Sea (roughing), 7:10. Hyman, Sea (roughing), 9:59. Kolle, Por (roughing), 9:59. Sharp, Por (hooking), 13:34. McKenzie, Por (slashing), 14:44. De Jong, Por (slashing), 19:31.<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 6, Portland, Quigley 1 (Blichfeld), 5:43. 7, Portland, Texeira 1 (Bellows, Jokiharju), 13:18 (pp). 8, Portland, Ginnell 1 (Hanus), 16:19. Penalties – Overhardt, Por (closing hand on puck), 4:43. Ottenbreit, Sea (major-check to the head, game misconduct), 10:58. Overhardt, Por (roughing), 10:58.<\/p>\n Shots on goal<\/strong> – Seattle 5-4-7 16, Portland 16-20-17 52. Goalies<\/strong> – Seattle, Hughes 52 shots-46 saves (0-1-0-0); Portland, Kehler 16-14 (2-0-0-0). Power plays<\/strong> – Seattle 2-6; Portland 1-4. A – 9,065. Referees<\/strong> – Jeff Ingram, Kyle Kowalski. Linesmen<\/strong> – Jarrod Bowman, Erik Freeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strand has two goals in loss at Portland <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":30724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30723","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\/30723"}],"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=30723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30723"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}