The Kamloops Blazers score five unanswered goals in the third period Friday night to break open a tie game and take a 7-2 victory over the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds at the Interior Savings Centre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds face the Everett Silvertips at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at ShoWare Center. The Silvertips are 1-3-0-1, and this is the first meeting of the year between the teams.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kamloops (4-0-0-1) took a 1-0 lead at 12:51 of the first period on a power-play goal by Colin Smith. J.C. Lipon and Brendan Ranford had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kamloops outshot Seattle 15-6 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle (2-3-0-0) got on the board at 7:42 of the second on a power-play goal from Connor Honey. Shea Theodore moved the puck up ice and got it to Honey in the left circle. Honey spun towards the slot and put a wrist shot on goal. Honey’s shot beat Kamloops goalie Cole Cheveldave over the glove for his first goal of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds were awarded a penalty shot at 17:49 of the second when the referees ruled Kamloops covered the puck in their crease. Honey took the penalty shot but was stopped by Cheveldave.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle outshot Kamloops 12-11 in the second period but the Blazers led in shots 26-18 after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds tied it up 2-2 39 seconds into the third period. Jerret Smith moved the puck from the Seattle zone to Jesse Forsberg who carried it up the left wing. Forsberg put a shot on goal from the bottom of the left circle with Honey crashing the net. Honey redirected the puck past Cheveldave for his second goal of the night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kamloops took the lead back at 4:28 of the third on a goal from DePape. Ranford and Willick were credited with the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Willick made it a 4-2 lead for Kamloops when he scored at 7:22 of the third. Ranford and Lipon had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kamloops went in front 5-2 on a power-play goal by Lipon. Bozon and Ranford had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ranford scored on a shorthanded breakaway at 14:48 of the third to give the Blazers a 6-2 lead. The goal was unassisted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bozon capped the scoring for Kamloops at 16:02 of the third on assists from Lipon and Marek Hrbas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kamloops outshot Seattle 9-6 in the third period and 35-24 in the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Brandon Glover (2-2-0-0) stopped 28 of 35 shots he faced. He was replaced by Justin Myles in goal after Kamloops seventh goal. Myles did not face a shot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period <\/strong>– 1, Kamloops, Smith 3 (Lipon, Ranford), 12:51 (pp). 2, Kamloops, Willick 2 (DePape), 15:04. Penalties – Delnov, Sea (tripping), 12:29. Swenson, Sea (cross checking),<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second <\/strong>period – 3, Seattle, Honey 1 (Theodore), 7:42 (pp). Missed Penalty Shot – Honey, Sea, 17:49. Penalties – Cross, Kam (tripping), :45. Connolly, Kam (double minor-high sticking), 3:46. Swenson, Sea (hooking), 3:52. Gaudet, Kam (closing hand on puck), 17:49.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third <\/strong>period – 4, Seattle, Honey 2 (Forsberg, Smith), :39. 5, Kamloops, DePape 1 (Ranford, Willick), 4:28. 6, Kamloops, Willick 3 (Ranford, Lipon), 7:22. 7, Kamloops, Lipon 1 (Bozon, Ranford), 12: 46 (pp). 8, Kamloops, Ranford 1, 14:48 (sh). 9, Kamloops, Bozon 4 (Lipon, Hrbas), 16:02. Penalties – Wolf, Sea (hooking), 12:24. Macklin, Kam (interference), 12:56. Elliot, Sea (major-fighting), 18:45. Trzonkowski, Kam (major-fighting), 18:45. Forsberg, Sea (roughing), 18:45. Macklin, Kam (roughing), 18:45.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 6-12-6 23, Kamloops 15-11-9 35. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 35 shots-28 saves (2-2-0-0), Myles 0-0; Kamloops, Cheveldave 24-22 (2-0-0-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-4; Kamloops 2-3. A – 4,506. Referee – Kevin Bennett, Matt Thurston. Linesmen – Riley Balson, Kris Hartley.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kamloops Blazers score five unanswered goals in the third period Friday night to break open a tie game and take a 7-2 victory over the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds at the Interior Savings Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}