WHL Spokane Chiefs

Americans tip Chiefs in OT

Published on April 23, 2008 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Spokane Chiefs News Release


The Tri-City Americans evened the Western Conference Championship series at two games a piece as Kruise Reddick scored 2:07 into overtime in the Spokane Arena. Spokane and Tri-City will play game five Saturday in Kennewick and return to the Spokane Arena on Monday, April 28th for game six of the series.

Tickets for game six will go on sale Wednesday morning at 9:00 am at the Chiefs ticket office or TicketsWest at (800) 325-SEAT.

For the 12th time in 14 playoff games, Spokane scored the first goal as Mitch Wahl tapped a cross ice Chris Bruton feed top shelf at 4:29 of the first period. The Americans scored their first two goals of regulation in this series with two 19-seconds a part late in the period. Colton Yellow Horn scored a power play goal at 19:20 and Jarrett Toll snapped in a shot from the point at 19:39 to take a 2-1 lead into the intermission.

The Americans had been shutout in two of the previous three games and won game two1-0 in double overtime.

Drayson Bowman tallied his first goal of the series with a snap shot on the power play at 18:49 at the second period from the right circle. Stefan Ulmer assisted on the play.

The Americans outshot Spokane 12-5 in a scoreless third period and 33-20 in the game.

Reddick tallied the game winner after Drew Hoff forced Chiefs goaltender Dustin Tokarski to misplay the puck behind the net. Hoff tipped it out to Reddick in front of the net and he snapped it in.

Game four marked the third time the two have gone into overtime and the sixth time in their last seven playoff games, dating back to 2002.

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