The Tri-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-2 in overtime Saturday night at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
It was the third consecutive game between the T-Birds and Americans. Seattle won 5-4 on Tuesday in Kent, and Tri-City prevailed 4-2 in Kennewick on Friday.<\/p>\n
Tri-City (6-4-0-0) took a 1-0 lead at 7:26 of the first period on Mitchell Brown’s goal. Sasha Mutala and Parker AuCoin had the assists. The Americans made it 2-0 lead at 10:37 of the first on Riley Sawchuk’s goal. Blake Stevenson and Connor Bouchard had the assists.<\/p>\n
Seattle (6-2-2-0) cut the Tri-City lead to one early in the second period. Nolan Volcan found Andrej Kukuca all alone in front of Tri-City goalie Beck Warm. Kukuca was stopped on his first attempt but got the puck back to the right of the net. Kukuca skated behind the net and scored a wraparound goal. Matthew Wedman had the second assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
Wedman tied the game 2-2 at 16:06 of the third period. Goalie Liam Hughes left the puck behind the net for defenseman Owen Williams, who made a stretch pass to Wedman at the Americans blue line. Wedman carried the puck into the left circle and beat Warm with a snap shot on the short side over the blocker.<\/p>\n
A minute before the tying goal, Wedman blocked a point shot while the T-Birds were on the penalty kill. Wedman hobbled to his feet and was able to clear the puck as the T-Birds killed off the Tri-City power play.<\/p>\n
Mutala scored at 1:46 of overtime for the game-winning goal. Krystof Hrabik had the only assist.<\/p>\n
Tri-City outshot Seattle 30-24 in the game.<\/p>\n
Hughes had 27 saves on 30 shots and his record is 5-1-1-0.<\/p>\n
Warm made 22 saves on 24 shots and his record is 5-4-0-0.<\/p>\n