{"id":38864,"date":"2019-02-02T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/silvertips-skate-past-thunderbirds\/"},"modified":"2019-02-02T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:16:23","slug":"silvertips-skate-past-thunderbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/silvertips-skate-past-thunderbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvertips skate past Thunderbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Everett Silvertips defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-2 Friday night at the accesso ShoWare Center in the first game of a home-and-home series between the Western Hockey League teams.<\/p>\n
Seattle and the Kamloops Blazers are tied for the second wild-card playoff spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Seattle (19-23-5-1) took a 1-0 lead at 14:51 of the first period. Andrej Kukuca’s forecheck down the right boards forced a turnover that Noah Philp was able to corral. Philp skated around the net and found Simon Kubicek at the high point. Kubicek took a slap shot with Kukuca in front of Everett goalie Dustin Wolf that missed the net and rebounded off the end boards. Kukuca spun from in front of the net and swatted the puck past Wolf at the left post as the puck came off the boards. <\/p>\n
Everett (36-12-1-1) tied the game 1-1 on an unassisted shorthanded goal by Bryce Kindopp at 16:37 of the second.<\/p>\n
Kindopp scored a power-play goal 26 seconds into the third period to give Everett a 2-1 lead. Zack Andrusiak and Connor Dewar had the assists. Kindopp scored a five-on-three power-play goal at 6:42 of the third to make it a 3-1 Silvertips lead. Andrusiak and Dewar had the assists.<\/p>\n
Seattle cashed in on their own five-on-three power play to cut the Silvertips lead to one goal at 8:11 of the third. Kukuca had the puck at center ice and passed it to Noah Philp to the left of the net. Philp quickly moved the puck through the low slot to Matthew Wedman to the right of the net. Wedman beat a lunging Wolf high for his 23rd goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Dawson Butt scored at 14:11 of the third and Zack Andrusiak at 15:23 to get Everett’s final two goals.<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Roddy Ross had 33 saves on 38 shots, and his record is now 6-2-0-1. Wolf made 29 saves on 31 shots, and his record is 32-11-1-0.<\/p>\n