WHL Portland Winterhawks

Seattle Beats Portland 5-3

Published on November 29, 2008 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Portland Winterhawks News Release


The Seattle Thunderbirds get goals from five different scorers, and they hold off a late rally by the Portland Winter Hawks, winning in front of 3,568 at the Rose Garden on Saturday afternoon.

Portland's losing streak is now at seven games and their record drops to 7-21-0-0 (14 points) while Seattle improves to 12-13-1-2 (27 points).

Jeremy Schappert, Devon LeBlanc, Brenden Silvester, David Richard and Greg Scott scored for Seattle, with Scott's goal being an empty -net goal to seal the victory.

Portland got on the scoreboard first when Ryan Kerr scored his first goal of the season and as a Winter Hawk, pounding home a slap-shot halfway through the first period. Seattle scored two second period goals to take a 2-1 lead after two periods.

Killian Hutt would tie the score early in the third period, bouncing in a bad angle shot off of Seattle goaltender Calvin Pickard and in to tie it at 2-2. Seattle would get the next two goals to make it 4-2, but Portland would make it interesting when Luke Walker set up Troy Rutkowski for a short-handed goal with just over a minute remaining in regulation, narrowing the gap to 4-3. Scott's empty-net goal would round out the scoring.

Pickard stopped 28 of 31 shots to get his third victory of the season against Portland for Seattle, while Kurtis Mucha would handle 32 of 36 shots in the loss for Portland.

Both teams would go scoreless on the power play with Portland going 0 for 3 and Seattle going 0 for 2.

Next up, the Hawks will be on home ice on Tuesday night, taking on the Kootenay Ice in a 7:00 start at the Memorial Coliseum.

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