The Vancouver Giants defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-2 Friday afternoon at the Delta Hotels Preseason Classic at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett.<\/p>\n
Classic play will continue for the T-Birds as they face the Everett Silvertips at 7 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
Seattle jumped out to an early 1-0 lead 53 seconds into the first period on Graeme Bryks’ goal. Bryks took a pass from Zack Andrusiak, put a shot on goal, got his own rebound and snapped it past Vancouver goalie Trent Miner. Andrej Kukuca had the second assist.<\/p>\n
The Giants tied the game 1-1 on Milos Roman’s power-play goal at 10:17 of the first. Vancouver went in front 2-1 with 36 seconds left in the first on Cyle McNabb’s power-play goal.<\/p>\n
McNabb struck a second time just after a power play ended at 9:57 of the second period to put the Giants in front 3-1.<\/p>\n
Seattle cut the Giants lead to one goal at 10:41 of the third period. Andrusiak skated the puck into the offensive zone and stopped in the right circle. Andrusiak found Cade McNelly pinching down from the left point with a pass. McNelly beat Vancouver goalie Drew Sim low on the blocker side with a snap shot.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds pulled goalie Cole Schwebius for an extra attacker with just over a minute to go in the game. The T-Birds had good pressure in the Giants zone, but Roman was able to find the empty net with four seconds left to get the Giants the win.<\/p>\n
Vancouver outshot Seattle 25-24 in the game.<\/p>\n
Schwebius played for the entire game for the T-Birds and had 21 saves on 24 shots.<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n First period<\/strong> – 1, Seattle, Bryks 1 (Andrusiak, Kukuca), :53. 2, Vancouver, Roman 1 (Kannok Leipert), 10:17 (pp). 3, Vancouver, McNabb 1 (Barberis), 19:24 (pp). Penalties – Tyszka, Sea (cross checking), 6:56. McIsaac, Sea (roughing, cross checking), 9:58. Holt, Van (roughing), 9:58. Williams, Sea (tripping), 13:27. MacLean, Sea (tripping), 13:58. Dhaliwal, Van (roughing), 13:58. Kannok Leipert, Van (interference), 14:37. McNelly, Sea (roughing), 17:44.<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 4, Vancouver, McNabb 2 (Sourdif), 9:57. Penalties – Kannok Leipert, Van (slashing), 3:01. Holt, Van (slashing), 6:37. MacLean, Sea (roughing), 7:56.<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 5, Seattle, McNelly 1 (Andrusiak, Kukuca), 10:41. 6, Vancouver, Roman 2 (Holt), 19:56 (en). Penalties – Torzsok, Van (interference), 4:52. MacLean, Sea (roughing), 9:09. Barberis, Van (roughing), 9:09.<\/p>\n Shots on goal<\/strong> – Seattle 4-11-8 24, Vancouver 9-12-5 26. Goalies<\/strong> – Seattle, Schwebius 24 shots-21 saves (0-1-0-0); Vancouver, Miner 13-12 (1-0-0-0), Sim 12-11. Power plays<\/strong> – Seattle 0-5; Vancouver 2-6. Referees<\/strong> – Stephen Campbell, Troy Paterson. Linesmen<\/strong> – Michael Ellis, Cameron Wetmore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Vancouver Giants defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-2 Friday afternoon at the Delta Hotels Preseason Classic at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett.<\/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-36500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500"}],"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=36500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36500"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}