{"id":50298,"date":"2021-06-22T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/seattle-thunderbirds-to-play-six-preseason-whl-games\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:09:00","slug":"seattle-thunderbirds-to-play-six-preseason-whl-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/seattle-thunderbirds-to-play-six-preseason-whl-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Thunderbirds to play six preseason WHL games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Thunderbirds will play six Western Hockey League preseason games prior to the 2021-22 regular season, including one at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle starts the preseason at the Silvertips Preseason Classic in Everett. They will play their first game at the Classic against the Portland Winterhawks at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 10 followed by a 2 p.m. Sept. 11 game against the Spokane Chiefs on Saturday, September 11 at 2 pm. The Classic ends for the T-Birds on Sunday,and a noon Sept. 12 contest against the Tri-City Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Preseason play continues for the T-Birds at the Red Lion Hotels&rsquo; Preseason Tournament at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. The T-Birds play at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, against Everett and play at noon Sept. 19 against Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds wrap up the preseason with a home game against Everett at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Tickets for the game will go on sale on a date in August to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The regular season home opener is at 6:05 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9 against Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds will announce their full 2021-22 regular season schedule on June 23.<\/p>\n<p>Single game tickets for the regular season will go on sale on a date to be determined in August online on the T-Birds website and at the accesso ShoWare Center box office.<\/p>\n<p>Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home game at ShoWare Center in Kent set for Sept. 21 against Everett <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":50299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-50298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50298"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50298"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}