{"id":31422,"date":"2017-11-12T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/blazers-sneak-past-thunderbirds-4-2-video\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T17:30:00","slug":"blazers-sneak-past-thunderbirds-4-2-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/blazers-sneak-past-thunderbirds-4-2-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers sneak past Thunderbirds | 4-2 | VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='s2nFriendlyFrame k-w05uilk03e-350480-4316' data-type='single'><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player4\/embedcode.js?SC=w05uilk03e-350480-4316' data-type='s2nScript'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Kamloops Blazers defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-2 in a Western Hockey League game Saturday night in front of 5,052 at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>On T-Birds Military Appreciation Night, the team wore special military-themed jerseys that were auctioned off during the game to support military charities.<\/p>\n<p>Kamloops (7-12-0-0) took a 1-0 lead at 1:30 of the first period on a power-play goal by Nick Chyzowski. Garret Pilon and Joe Gatenby had the assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers made it a 2-0 lead at 4:58 of the first on a goal from Ondrej Vala. Pilon had the only assist.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds outshot the Blazers 13-11 in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle (9-7-1-1) cut the Kamloops lead to one at 3:42 of the second period. Matthew Wedman took a pass on the left wing from Austin Strand to go on a two-on-one break with Blake Bargar. Wedman centered the puck from the left circle to Bargar and he redirected the puck through Kamloops goalie Max Palaga&rsquo;s legs.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Bird tied the game 2-2 on the power play 1:37 after Bargar&rsquo;s goal. Donovan Neuls passed the puck from the right point to Nolan Volcan to the right of the goal. Volcan centered the puck to Ian Briscoe in the slot who took a wrist shot. Volcan knocked the rebound of Briscoe&rsquo;s shot past Palaga.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers took a 3-2 lead at 15:31 of the second on a goal from Quinn Benjafield. Pilon and Vala had the assists.<\/p>\n<p>Kamloops outshot Seattle 11-10 in the second period. The T-Birds had a 23-22 advantage in shots after two periods.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds pulled goalie Liam Hughes with two minutes left in the game for an extra attacker. Jermain Loewen scored an unassisted empty-net goal with 29 seconds left in the game to secure the win for the Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers outshot the T-Birds 10-3 in the third period and 32-26 in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes is now 4-3-1-0 after stopping 28 of 31 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Palaga improves to 2-2-0-0 stopping 24 of 26 shots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up: Prince Albert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds host the Prince Albert Raiders at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday for the second Directors Mortgage 2-for-Tuesday game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Single-game tickets for the regular season are on sale online on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\" target=\"_blank\">T-Birds website<\/a> and at the ShoWare Center box office.<\/p>\n<p>Season tickets may be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First period<\/strong> &#8211; 1, Kamloops, Chyzowski 5 (Pilon, Gatenby), 1:30 (pp). 2, Kamloops, Vala 4 (Pilon), 4:58. Penalties &#8211; Wedman, Sea (holding), 1:25. McNelly, Sea (major-fighting), 7:02. Ludwar, Kam (major-fighting), 7:02. Palaga, Kam (delay of game-served by Ludwar), 16:38.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second period<\/strong> &#8211; 3, Seattle, Bargar 4 (Wedman, Strand), 3:42. 4, Seattle, Volcan 5 (Briscoe, Neuls) 5:19 (pp). 5, Kamloops, Benjafield 4 (Vala, Pilon), 15:31. Penalties &#8211; Benjafield, Kam (interference), 4:27. Pilon, Kam (hooking), 9:24. Hamaliuk, Sea (charging), 17:52. Neuls, Sea (major-fighting), 17:52. Stuart, Kam (major-fighting), 17:52.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third period<\/strong> &#8211; 6, Kamloops, Loewen 8, 19:31 (en). Penalties &#8211; Benjafield, Kam (hooking), 8:57. Benjafield, Kam (roughing), 19:41. Reagan, Kam (double minor-roughing, 10-minute misconduct), 19:41. Hamaliuk, Sea (cross checking, roughing), 19:41. Malukhin, Sea (roughing), 19:41. McNelly, Sea (roughing), 19:41.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shots on goal<\/strong> &#8211; Seattle 13-10-3 26, Kamloops 11-11-10 32. <strong>Goalies<\/strong> &#8211; Seattle, Hughes 31 shots-28 saves (4-3-1-0); Kamloops, Palaga 26-24 (2-2-0-0). <strong>Power plays<\/strong> &#8211; Seattle 1-3; Kamloops 1-4. A &#8211; 5,052. <strong>Referees<\/strong> &#8211; Brett Iverson, Ryan O&rsquo;Keeffe. <strong>Linesmen<\/strong> &#8211; Michael Bean, Nathan Van Oosten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bargar, Volcan score in 4-2 loss to Kamloops <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":31423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31422","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\/31422"}],"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=31422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31422"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}