{"id":7270,"date":"2016-04-30T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/t-birds-to-face-wheat-kings-for-whl-crown-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T06:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T13:30:28","slug":"t-birds-to-face-wheat-kings-for-whl-crown-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/t-birds-to-face-wheat-kings-for-whl-crown-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Birds to face Wheat Kings for WHL crown | Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Thunderbirds will play the Brandon Wheat Kings in the best-of-seven WHL Championship series, beginning next Friday in Brandon, Manitoba.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Wheat Kings defeated the Red Deer Rebels 5-2 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Championship Friday night in Brandon to win their best-of-seven series 4-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 1 faceoff is 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The T-Birds host Games 3, 4 and 5 of the WHL Championship on May 10, 11 and 13 at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The T-Birds advanced to the WHL championship with a 4-0 sweep of the Kelowna Rockets in the Western Conference final.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tickets, promotions<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 3 will be a Directors Mortgage 2-for-Tuesday game, featuring two-for-one tickets in all price levels and $2 concession specials on beer, hot dogs, popcorn and soda.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 4 is White Out Wednesday. The first 5,000 fans at Game 4 will receive a special, limited edition, free T-Birds white T-shirt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Single-game tickets go on sale at noon on Tuesday on the T-Birds website<\/a> and at the ShoWare Center box office. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fans who purchase 10 tickets to Game 4 for $220 will also receive 2 additional free tickets to the game. Fans can purchase the group ticket special online or by calling the T-Birds at 253-239-PUCK (7825).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

WHL Championship Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 1 Friday, May 6 at Brandon, 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 2 Saturday, May 7 at Brandon, 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 3 Tuesday, May 10 at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 4 Wednesday, May 11 at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 5 Friday, May 13 at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.*<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 6 Sunday, May 15 at Brandon, 5 p.m.*^<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Game 7 Monday, May 16 at Brandon, 5 p.m.*<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

* if necessary<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

^ time subject to change (all times local)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Thunderbirds will play the Brandon Wheat Kings in the best-of-seven WHL Championship series, beginning next Friday in Brandon, Manitoba.<\/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-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270"}],"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=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}