The Brandon Wheat Kings defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-1 Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center. The loss ended the T-Birds three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle goalie Daniel Cotton started in net for the T-Birds against the Wheat Kings of Manitoba, Canada. It was Cotton’s first career start in the Western Hockey League and first start for the T-Birds this season. Cotton (0-1-0-0) made 45 saves on 48 shots in his debut.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Wheat Kings led the T-Birds 12-11 in shots after a scoreless first period in front of a crowd of 2,784.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Brandon’s Brenden Walker scored the first goal of the game at 6:12 of the second giving the Wheat Kings a 1-0 lead. Alessio Bertaggia and Mark Stone had the assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Dakota Conroy scored the Wheat Kings second goal at 19:13 of the second period assisted by Eric Roy and Jason Swyripa. Brandon (6-3-01) led 31-15 in shots after two periods of play by outshooting Seattle 15-4 in the second period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle (3-4-0-0) got on the board at 10:59 of the third period. Brendan Rouse won a face off in the right circle of the Seattle zone to Kyle Verdino who skated behind Cotton and then made a pass up the left boards. The puck went across the center line to Luke Lockhart who carried it into the Brandon zone. Lockhart had a partial breakaway with a Wheat Kings defender closing in on him as he approached Brandon goalie Brandon Anderson. Lockhart beat Anderson through his legs for his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Darian Dziurzynski scored Brandon’s third goal of the night at 13:38 of the third period assisted by Michael Ferland and Paul Ciarelli.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bertaggia iced the game for the Wheat Kings when he scored an empty-net goal at 18:04 of the third period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ryley Miller had the only assist on Brandon’s fourth goal. Anderson stopped 31 of 32 shots improving his overall record to (3-3-0-0).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle plays the Everett Silvertips Friday, Oct. 21, at the Comcast Arena at 7:35 pm. The T-Birds return home to the ShoWare Center on Sunday, Oct. 23, to face Everett at 5:05 pm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2011-12 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
SCORING SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n First period – No scoring. Penalties – Doty, Seattle (interference), 3:02. Bertaggia, Brandon (interference), 5:07. Miller, Brn (roughing), 5:43. Rouse, Sea (tripping), 8:17. Swyripa, Brn (roughing), 11:09. Verdino, Sea (checking from behind), 11:09. Doty, Sea (roughing), 11:09. Noebels, Sea (delay of game), 13:27. Alos, Sea (roughing), 18:25. Bertaggia, Brn (roughing), 18:25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Second period – 1, Brandon, Walker 3 (Bertaggia, Stone), 6:12. 2, Brandon, Conroy 1 (Roy, Swyripa), 19:13. Penalties – Dziurzynski, Brn (holding), 19:42.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Third period – 3, Seattle, Lockhart 1 (Verdino, Rouse), 10:59. 4, Brandon, Dziurzynski 4 (Ferland, Ciarelli), 13:38. 5, Brandon, Bertaggia 7 (Miller), 18:04. Penalties – Pulock, Brn (delay of game). :08.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shots on goal – Seattle 11-4-17 32. Brandon 12-9-18 49. Goalies – Seattle, Cotton 48 shots-45 saves (0-1-0-0); Brandon, Anderson 32-31 (3-3-0-0). Power plays – Seattle 0-4; Brandon 0-4. A – 2,784. Referee – Pat Smith. Linesmen – Zach Brooks, Ron Dietterle.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Brandon Wheat Kings defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-1 Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center. The loss ended the T-Birds three-game winning streak.<\/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-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176"}],"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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}