The Seattle Thunderbirds came back from a two-goal deficit Friday afternoon for a 4-2 win over the Vancouver Giants in their first game at the Delta Hotels Preseason Classic at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett. <\/p>\n
Lucas Ciona scored the game-winning goal 1:33 into the third period of the Western Hockey League game. Ciona forced a turnover at the Seattle blue line and chased the puck down the left wing. Ciona battled a Giants defenseman for the puck to create a two-on-one with Jaxan Kaluski. Ciona skated into the low slot from left to right and stopped up, as Vancouver goalie Drew Sim slid to his left, exposing a big portion of the net. Ciona deposited the puck into the net for his first goal of the preseason.<\/p>\n
Classic play continues for the T-Birds on Saturday as they face the Tri-City Americans at 3 p.m. The Classic ends for the T-Birds on Sunday against the Everett Silvertips at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Vancouver went in front 2-0 in the first period on a power-play goal from Justin Sourdif at 4:25 and a goal from John Little at 13:32.<\/p>\n
Seattle cut the Vancouver lead to one at 15:12 of the second period on a power-play goal from Michael Horon. Tyrel Bauer passed the puck to Horon in the slot. Horon beat Vancouver goalie Drew Sim through the legs. Conner Bruggen-Cate had the second assist.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds tied the game 2-2 1:27 after Horon’s goal. Jared Davidson got to a loose puck in the left circle and snapped it past Sim short side for his first of the preseason.<\/p>\n
Vancouver pulled Sim with 1:33 left in the game. They had extended time in the Seattle zone but Brecon Wood iced the game with 13 seconds left when he hit the empty net.<\/p>\n
Preseason play continues for the T-Birds at the Red Lion Hotels’ Preseason Tournament at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. The T-Birds will begin the tournament on Friday, Sept. 6, against the Tri-City Americans at 7:05 p.m. Tournament play will conclude on Saturday, Sept. 7 with a matchup against the Portland Winterhawks at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds wrap up preseason play with a home game against the Everett Silvertips on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 7:05 p.m at accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds start the 2019-20 Western Hockey League regular season against the Kamloops Blazers on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 6:05 p.m. at accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2019-20 regular season are on sale now online on the T-Birds website and at the accesso ShoWare Center box office.<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n First period – 1, Vancouver, Sourdif 1 (Little), 4:25 (pp). 2, Vancouver, Little 1, 13:32. Penalties – Williams, Sea (hooking), 4:06. Shepard, Van (roughing), 9:23. Ciona, Sea (slashing), 12:00. Alkhimov, Van (interference), 12:13. Ciona, Sea (checking from behind), 14:31. Wood, Sea (tripping), 19:10.<\/em><\/p>\n Second period – 3, Seattle, Horon 1 (Bauer, Bruggen-Cate), 15:12 (pp). 4, Seattle, Davidson 1, 16:39. Penalties – Thompson, Sea (kneeing), 2:23. Thompson, Sea (interference), 5:01. Camazzola, Van (boarding), 9:10. Shepard, Van (charging), 11:21. Ostapchuk, Van (holding), 14:27. Bateman, Sea (boarding), 18:26.<\/em><\/p>\n Third period – 5, Seattle, Ciona 1, 1:33. Penalties – Ciona, Sea (goaltender interference), 1:33. Popowich, Sea (high-sticking), 3:30. Thompson, Sea (charging), 10:18. Pentecost, Van (roughing), 13:24.<\/em><\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 7-7-8 22, Vancouver 14-7-11 31. Goalies – Seattle, Milic 31 shots-29 saves (1-0-0-0); Vancouver, Sim 22-19 (0-1-0-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-6; Vancouver 1-10. Referees – Troy Patterson, Connor Simmons. Linesmen – Michael Bean, Kacey Walker.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rally from 2-0 deficit <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42074"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}