The Seattle Thunderbirds battled but dropped a 2-1 Western Hockey League game to the Everett Silvertips in front a season-high 6,216 fans at the accesso ShoWare Center on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds have dropped 12 of their last 15 games.<\/p>\n
The full house was just eight fans short of tying a T-Birds single-game attendance record at ShoWare. The record of 6,224 fans was set in Game 5 of the WHL championship series against the Regina Pats on May 17, 2017.<\/p>\n
Everett (24-7-1-0) went in front 1-0 at 16:25 of the first period. Sean Richard poked the puck in after a long scramble in the T-Birds crease. Seattle goalie Liam Hughes and coach Matt O’Dette protested, to no avail, that Hughes was interfered with in the crease.<\/p>\n
Seattle tied the game 1-1 at 3:59 of the second period. Samuel Huo won a faceoff in the right circle to Nolan Volcan on the boards. Volcan skated the puck up the wall and around the top of the circle before taking a hard wrist shot with traffic in front of Everett goalie Dustin Wolf, beating the goalie over the blocker.<\/p>\n
Max Patterson scored the winning goal for the Silvertips at 7:46 of the third period on a breakaway. The play came right after the T-Birds couldn’t convert on a three-on-one break.<\/p>\n
Seattle outshot Everett 16-11 in the third period and 44-38 in the game.<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Liam Hughes had 36 saves on 38 shots.<\/p>\n
Wolf had 43 saves on 44 shots.<\/p>\n