The Spokane Chiefs defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This was the second of three consecutive games against the Chiefs, as the two teams play again at 7:05 p.m. today in Spokane.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Chiefs (26-12-1-0) skated out to an early lead just 19 seconds into the game. Brendan Kichton scored on the power play to put Spokane in front 1-0, with Todd Fiddler and Reid Gow getting the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle (16-22-2-1) managed to tie the game with six seconds left in the first period on a rush up the ice. Jared Hauf got the puck in the neutral zone and moved it to Branden Troock skating up the right boards. Troock slid a pass to Shea Theodore in the slot who shot the puck low glove side past Spokane goalie Eric Williams for his eighth of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The teams headed into the first intermission tied 1-1, with Spokane leading the shot count 16-7 after one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle took a 2-1 lead from a great individual effort by Mitch Elliot. He caused a turnover at the Spokane blue line and skated into the slot to rip a shot high past Williams’ glove. The unassisted goal came at 3:26 of the second and was Elliot’s second goal of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane tied the game 2-2 off an unassisted, shorthanded effort by Colin Valcourt. It was Valcourt’s 13th goal of the season and came at 7:22.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle then scored to take a 3-2 lead at the 17:20 mark of the second. Brendan Rouse moved a loose puck in the neutral zone to Seth Swenson. Swenson skated in the offensive zone dropped the puck to Troock and skated to the net to set up a screen. Troock waited and let a shot rip that slid through Williams’ pads for his third goal of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane managed to tie the game once more at 3-3 through Mike Aviani’s 20th goal of the year. Todd Fiddler was given the assist on the goal coming at 19:07 of the second.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Shots for the second period were 13-13, with the score tied 3-3 heading into the final frame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane scored the final goal of the game at 6:12 of the third period. Liam Stewart scored an unassisted goal off a Seattle turnover in the T-Birds’ zone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Shots in the third period were 10-8 Seattle, and ended 37-30 in favor of Spokane.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Spokane goaltender Eric Williams made 27 saves on 30 shots to improve his record to 20-10-1-0 on the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattlegoalie Brandon Glover made 33 saves on 37 shots and now posts an overall record of 15-17-2-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
T-Birds single game tickets for the season are available online at the T-Birds website and at the ShoWare Center box office. The ShoWare Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday game days at 10 a.m. and Sunday game days at noon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
T-Birds season tickets are on sale. Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period <\/strong>– 1, Spokane, Kichton 12 (Fiddler, Gow), :19 (pp). 2, Seattle, Theodore 8 (Troock, Hauf), 19:54. Penalties – Glover, Sea (delay of game), :09. Elliot, Sea (interference), 10:38. Foulk, Sea (tripping), 14:39. Wray, Sea (fighting), 18:07. Smith, Spo (fighting), 18:07.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – 3, Seattle, Elliot 2 (unassisted), 3:26. 4, Spokane, Valcourt 13 (unassisted), 7:22 (sh). 5, Seattle, Troock 3 (Swenson, Rouse), 17:20. 6, Spokane, Aviani 20 (Fiddler), 19:07. Penalties – Walchuck, Spo (interference), 15:40. Fiddler, Spo (high sticking), 15:13. Proft, Spo (fighting), 17:08. Sanvido, Sea (fighting), 17:08.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 7, Spokane, Stewart 9 (unassisted), 6:12. Penalties – Forsberg, Sea (tripping), 3:49. Aviani, Spo (holding), 10:03. Fram, Spo (delay of game), 16:30.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 7-13-10 30, Spokane 16-13-8 37. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 37 shots-33 saves (15-17-2-1); Spokane, Williams 30-27 (20-10-1-0). Power plays – Seattle 0-4; Spokane 1-4. A – 3,280. Referees – Ryan Benbow, Adam Griffiths. Linesmen – Zach Brooks, Kevin Boris.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Spokane Chiefs defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-3 Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center. This was the second of three consecutive games against the Chiefs, as the two teams play again at 7:05 p.m. today in Spokane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":4418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417"}],"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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}