Michael Horon had two goals and two assists and Simon Kubicek, Payton Mount and Brendan Williamson each had a goal and two assists to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to an 8-3 WHL victory over the Portland Winterhawks at the Red Lion Hotels’ Preseason Tournament in Kennewick.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds (4-0-1-0) wrap up preseason play with a home game against the Everett Silvertips at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
Mount leads the T-Birds in scoring during the preseason with four goals and four assists in three games. Horon is second with seven points on two goals and five assists in four games.<\/p>\n
Seattle jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first period on a five-on-three power-play goal by Andrej Kukuca at 5:54 and a power-play goal by Conner Bruggen-Cate at 6:34. Mount and Kubicek had the assists on Kukuca’s goal and Williamson and Tyrel Bauer had the assists on Bruggen-Cate’s goal.<\/p>\n
The T-Birds added three more goals in the first period to get a 5-0 lead after one period.<\/p>\n
Williamson scored at 8:09 on an assist from Michael Horon.<\/p>\n
Horon scored 3:20 after the T-Birds third goal with Williamson and Jared Davidson having the assists.<\/p>\n
Lucas Ciona scored at 13:22 of the first to make it a 5-0 lead. Mount had an assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
In the second period the Winterhawks scored three goals and the T-Birds scored twice.<\/p>\n
Mason Mannek got Portland on the board 22 seconds into the period.<\/p>\n
Mount answered back for the T-Birds at 6:49 on an assist from Owen Williams.<\/p>\n
Lane Gilliss scored at 9:37 and Jaydon Dureau on the power play at 14:26.<\/p>\n
Kubicek scored on the power play at 17:28 on assist from Horon and Bruggen-Cate to make it a 7-3 T-Birds lead after two periods.<\/p>\n
Horon scored the T-Birds’ eighth goal, on the power play, at 6:54 of the third period on assists from Conner Roulette and Kubicek.<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Blake Lyda had 24 saves on 27 shots.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n The T-Birds begin the regular season against the Kamloops Blazers at 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21 at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n Single-game tickets for the regular season are on sale online and at the ShoWare box office.<\/p>\n Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n First period<\/strong> – 1, Seattle, Kukuca 1 (Mount, Kubicek), 5:54 (pp). 2, Seattle, Bruggen-Cate 3 (Williamson, Bauer), 6:34 (pp). 3, Seattle, Williamson 2 (Horon), 8:09. 4, Seattle, Horon 2 (Williamson, Davidson), 11:29. 5, Seattle, Ciona 3 (Mount), 13:22. Penalties – Perna, Por (interference), 4:07. Cicek, Por (boarding), 4:38. McNelly, Sea (kneeing), 13:52. Brondberg, Por (holding), 16:04. Wood, Sea (boarding), 18:17.<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 6, Portland, Mannek 2 (Quigley, Gilliss), :22. 7, Seattle, Mount 4 (Williams), 6:49. 8, Portland, Gilliss 3 (Mannek, Quigley), 9:37. 9, Portland, Dureau 3 (Knak, Smythe), 14:26. 10, Seattle, Kubicek 1 (Horon, Bruggen-Cate), 17:28 (pp). Penalties – Ashton, Sea (high sticking), 3:09. Ciona, Sea (interference),10:43. Jeri-Leon, Sea (high sticking), 12:47. Klassen, Por (goaltender interference), 15:41. Nolan, Por (hooking), 16:45.<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 11, Seattle, Horon 3 (Roulette, Kubicek), 6:54 (pp). Penalties – Bench, Por (too many men-served by Pasternak), 5:40. Hanas, Por (checking from behind), 9:43. Roulette, Seas (roughing), 12:29. Gervais, Por (roughing), 12:29.<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 12-9-8 29, Portland 8-5-14 27. Goalies – Seattle, Lyda 27 shots-24 saves (2-0-0-0); Portland, Giannuzzi 25-18 (0-2-0-1), Lochlan 4-3. Power plays – Seattle 4-7; Portland 1-5. Referees – Adam Griffiths, Bobby Jo Love. Linesmen – Steve Fleming, Josh Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four players have three or more points in 8-3 win over Portland <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42137","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\/42137"}],"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=42137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42137"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}