{"id":32732,"date":"2018-01-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/americans-get-past-thunderbirds\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T21:30:00","slug":"americans-get-past-thunderbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/americans-get-past-thunderbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans get past Thunderbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='s2nFriendlyFrame k-tRuCfNcFYj-371251-4316' data-type='single'><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player4\/embedcode.js?SC=tRuCfNcFYj-371251-4316' data-type='s2nScript'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Tri-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-2 in a Western Hockey League game Sunday night at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds&rsquo; next game is 5:05 p.m. Saturday against the Victoria Royals at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle (26-18-4-2) took a 1-0 lead at 3:43 of the second period. Turner Ottenbreit passed the puck up ice to Matthew Wedman, who split the Tri-City defenseman to come in alone on Americans goalie Patrick Dea. Wedman beat Dea over the glove for his 11th goal of the season. Jarret Tyszka had the second assist.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle goalie Dorrin Luding kept the game scoreless stopping several Americans breakaways through two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Tri-City (25-16-7-0) tied the game 1-1 at 7:16 of the third period. Riley Sawchuk scored on a two-on-one break. Isaac Johnson and Liam Belcourt had the assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans took a 2-1 lead at 12:50 of the third on the power play. Morgan Geekie got a loose puck in the slot and beat Luding.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle pulled Luding with 1:16 left in the game for an extra attacker. Sawchuk was able to hit the empty net at 18:51 of the third to get the Americans third goal.<\/p>\n<p>Off the ensuing faceoff, the T-Birds got the puck deep in the Americans zone and pulled Luding a second time. Turner Ottenbreit took a slap shot that Zack Andrusiak tipped past Dea with 28 seconds left for his 23rd goal of the season. Wedman had the second assist.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds kept the pressure on in the last 28 seconds with the extra attacker but were unable to secure the tying goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tri-City outshot Seattle 35-31 in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Luding finished the game with 32 saves on 34 shots and his record is 8-11-1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Dea had 29 saves on 31 shots and his record is 13-9-6-0.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\/#sm.00001so5sv0bgqfs0rbmu62xardq9\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> or visit the ShoWare Center box office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First period<\/strong> &#8211; No scoring. Penalties &#8211; Hamaliuk, Sea (boarding), 2:14. Mutala, Tri (high-sticking), 10:31. Strand, Sea (holding), 18:11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second period<\/strong> &#8211; 1, Seattle, Wedman 11 (Ottenbreit, Tyszka), 3:43. Penalties &#8211; Huo, Sea (slashing), 7:09. Gatenby, Tri (tripping), 15:25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third period<\/strong> &#8211; 2, Tri-City, Sawchuk 7 (Johnson, Belcourt), 7:16. 3, Tri-City, Geekie 17, 12:50 (pp). 4, Tri-City, Sawchuk 8 (James), 18:51 (en). 5, Seattle, Andrusiak 23 (Ottenbreit, Wedman), 19:32. Penalties &#8211; Volcan, Sea (tripping), 3:29. James, Tri (boarding), 10:27. Wedman, Sea (boarding), 11:41. Rasmussen, Tri (faceoff violation), 15:49.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shots on goal<\/strong> &#8211; Seattle 11-9-11 31, Tri-City 13-10-12 35. <strong>Goalies<\/strong> &#8211; Seattle, Luding 34 shots-32 saves (8-11-1-0); Tri-City, Dea 31-29 (13-9-6-0). <strong>Power plays<\/strong> &#8211; Seattle 0-4; Tri-City 1-5. A &#8211; 2,848. <strong>Referees<\/strong> &#8211; Duncan Brow, Bryan Bourdon. <strong>Linesmen<\/strong> &#8211; Anthony Guzzo, Daniel Spore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedman, Andrusiak score in 3-2 loss to Tri-City | VIDEO <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":32734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32732","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\/32732"}],"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=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}