{"id":37439,"date":"2018-10-31T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/spokane-skates-past-thunderbirds\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T06:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:14:48","slug":"spokane-skates-past-thunderbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/spokane-skates-past-thunderbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Spokane skates past Thunderbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Spokane Chiefs defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-1 in Western Hockey League play Tuesday night at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.<\/p>\n
Spokane (8-4-1-2) took a 1-0 lead at 18:58 of the first period on Jake McGrew’s goal. Ty Smith had the only assist.<\/p>\n
Spokane outshot Seattle 15-9 in the first period.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs went in front 2-0 on Riley Woods’ power-play goal at 7:59 of the second period. Eli Zummack and Smith had the assists.<\/p>\n
Seattle (7-4-2-0) cut the Chiefs’ lead to one at 14:40 of the second. Jaxan Kaluski forced a turnover in the left corner of the Spokane zone. Kaluski threw the puck to the front of the Chiefs net where Noah Philp got a stick on it forcing a scramble. Dillon Hamaliuk slammed the puck past Spokane goalie Bailey Brkin for his eighth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Spokane had a 25-18 advantage in shots by outshooting Seattle 10-9 in the second period.<\/p>\n
Woods scored a power-play goal at 6:20 of the third period off assists from Smith and Brkin to give the Chiefs a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Liam Hughes was pulled with 1:51 left in the third period for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n
Spokane’s Egor Abruzov scored an unassisted empty-net goal at 18:57 to seal the win.<\/p>\n
Hughes finished with 28 saves on 31 shots.<\/p>\n
Brkin made 22 saves on 23 shots.<\/p>\n