{"id":38995,"date":"2019-02-09T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/winterhawks-slide-past-thunderbirds\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:30:00","slug":"winterhawks-slide-past-thunderbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/winterhawks-slide-past-thunderbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Winterhawks slide past Thunderbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-1 in a Western Hockey League game at the accesso ShoWare Center on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Portland took a 1-0 on a goal from Joachim Blichfeld at 2:07 of the first period. Reece Newkirk and John Ludvig the assists.<\/p>\n
The Winterhawks went in front 2-0 at 10:41 of the first on a power-play goal by Ludvig. Seth Jarvis and Brendan De Jong had the assists.<\/p>\n
Portland outshot Seattle 12-6 in the first period.<\/p>\n
The Winterhawks went ahead 3-0 at 11:18 of the second on a goal from Lane Gilliss. Jaydon Dureau and Jared Freadrich had the assists.<\/p>\n
Seattle outshot Portland 9-8 in the second period and the Winterhawks led 20-15 in shots after two periods.<\/p>\n
Seattle (20-26-5-1) cut the Winterhawks’ lead to two goals at 16:13 of the third on a five-on-three power play goal by Matthew Wedman. Noah Philp had the puck between the tops of the circle and passed it to Wedman in the right circle. Wedman one-timed the pass over Portland goalie Shane Farkas. Jarret Tyszka had the second assist.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds pulled goalie Cole Schwebius for an extra attacker with a minute left in the game. Portland was able to hold off a T-Birds push and Josh Paterson scored into an empty net with 24 seconds left in the game.<\/p>\n
Portland outshot Seattle 28-26 in the game.<\/p>\n
Schwebius had 24 saves on 27 shots. Farkas had 27 saves on 28 shots.<\/p>\n