The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-2 Saturday afternoon in a preseason game at the Red Lion Hotels’ Preseason Tournament at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This was the T-Birds’ second game at the tournament. They beat the Tri-City Americans 4-2 Friday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle won all three of its games at the Everett Silvertips Preseason Tournament over Labor Day weekend and now have a 4-1-0-0 preseason record.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds close out the preseason schedule with a home-and-home series against the Silvertips. The T-Birds visit Everett this Friday, Sept. 13, for a 7:35 puck drop against the Silvertips. The T-Birds then make their only pre-season appearance at ShoWare Center on Saturday, Sept. 14, for a 7:05 p.m. contest against the Silvertips. Single game tickets for the home preseason game are on sale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Portland went in front 1-0 at 3:16 of the first period on a goal from Presten Kopeck. Adam Rossignol and Ethan Price had the assist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Winterhawks extended their lead to 2-0 on a power-play goal from Chase De Leo at 18:23 of the first. Shaun MacPherson had the only assist on the goal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle outshot Portland 9-6 in the first period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Devon Fordyce started in net for the T-Birds and played 33 minutes. He made five saves on seven shots. Logan Flodell replaced Fordyce.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds led in shots 17-14 after a scoreless second period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Portland scored two goals less than two minutes apart in the middle of the third period to take a 4-0 lead. Alex Schoenborn scored at 7:48 and Ethan Price scored at 9:45.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The T-Birds cut the Winterhawks lead to two goals with two shorthanded goals on the same penalty kill. With Connor Honey in the penalty box Griffin Foulk scored at 16:17 and Scott Eansor scored at 17:03.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Portland outshot the T-Birds 37-28 in the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Flodell stopped 28 of 30 shots in just over 27 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jarrod Schamerhorn played the entire game for Portland and stopped 26 of 28 shots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Season opener Sept. 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The T-Birds will drop the puck for the 2013-14 regular season against the Portland Winterhawks at ShoWare Center on Saturday, September 21 at 7:05pm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n T-Birds single game tickets for the 2013-14 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 currently 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, Portland, Kopeck 1 (Rossignol, Price), 3:16. 2, Portland, De Leo 4 (MacPherson), 18:23 (pp). Penalties – Pederson, Sea (hooking), 7:58. Hanson, Por (slashing), 14:10. Barzal, Sea (holding), 14:24. Hickman, Sea (tripping), 18:05.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period<\/strong> – No scoring. Penalties – McKenzie, Por (interference), 1:43. Schoenborn, Por (tripping), 4:42. Turgeon, Por (tripping), 9:39. Douglas, Sea (tripping), 12:45. Schoenborn, Por (elbowing), 15:41. Texeira, Por (holding), 16:42. Smith, Sea (tripping), 18:14.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period<\/strong> – 3, Portland, Schoenborn 2 (MacPherson, Rossignol), 7:48. 4, Portland, Price 2 (Kopeck, Rossignol), 9:45. 5, Seattle, Foulk 1 (Sheen), 16:17 (sh). 6, Seattle, Eansor 1 (Swenson), 17:03 (sh). Penalties – De Leo, Por (tripping), 2:45. Allridge, Por (major-fighting, game misconduct) 11:12. Folk, Sea (major-fighting, game misconduct),11:12. Honey, Sea (unsportsmanlike conduct), 15:12. Iverson, Por (roughing, game misconduct), 17:32. Hickman, Sea (roughing, game misconduct), 17:32. Swenson, Sea (slashing), 18:08. Schoenborn, Por (roughing), 19:22. Wolf, Sea (roughing), 19:22.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal<\/strong> – Seattle 9-8-11 28, Portland 6-8-23 37. Goalies<\/strong> – Seattle, Fordyce 7 shots-5 saves, Flodell 30-28 (1-1-0-0); Portland, Schamerhorn 28-26 (1-1-0-0). Power plays<\/strong> – Seattle 0-7; Portland 1-7. Referees<\/strong> – Mike Langin, Fraser Lawrence. Linesmen – Jeremi Del Campo, Eric Nyberg.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-2 Saturday afternoon in a preseason game at the Red Lion Hotels’ Preseason Tournament at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}