WHL Everett Silvertips

Simpson Shines In Tri-City's 3-1 Victory

Published on February 14, 2009 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Everett Silvertips News Release


Everett, WA - Kent Simpson, in his first start since January 30th, made 49 saves in a great performance against Tri-City despite a 4-1 loss for Everett. Ryan White scored his fifth goal of the season Saturday night. Chet Pickard had a strong start in net for the Americans making 35 saves for his 28th win of the season. Johnny Lazo took home the night's first star with two goals in an 11 second span.

This brings the 'Tips record to 24-26-7-2 with 57 points in 59 games played taking them to sixth place in the Western Conference. Everett stands two points behind fifth place Kamloops Blazers. The Silvertips are now 3-5-1-1 in their last 10 games. The Silvertips come back Wednesday night to the Comcast Arena to take on the Portland Winter Hawks at 7:05!

Ryan White started off Saturday night's scoring just one minute and 39 seconds into the game. A seemingly harmless dump-in from the neutral zone found eyes for the back of the net bouncing underneath Chet Pickard's right arm for a quick 1-0 Silvertips lead. Johnny Lazo added two goals in just 11 seconds to give Tri-City the 2-1 lead. The first coming at 11:55 when Lazo let off a quick wrist shot from the slot to tie the game. Lazo's second goal of the night, at 12:06, had the American's forward rush into the Everett zone off the faceoff and beat Simpson with a great placed wrist shot up high.

The Americans added to their lead after Taylor Procyshen added his 33rd goal of the season on the power play. Procyshen found himself open in the slot after a great pass from Brett Ploufe and went top shelf at 15:03 increasing the Tri-City lead to two. Kent Simpson had a great second period stopping 26 of 27 shots faced.

After a back and forth period, and Everett pulling Simpson, Tri-City sealed a victory after Mitch Fadden put home an empty net goal securing a 4-1 victory for Tri-City.

The Silvertips come back to Comcast Arena this Wednesday, February 18th to take on U.S. Division rival Portland Winter Hawks at 7:05! Tickets are on sale now at the new everettsilvertips.com and at the Comcast Arena Box Office! For ticket information, including season seats and ticket packages, please call the Silvertips' front office at (425) 252-5100.

As always, radio coverage of Silvertips hockey will be provided by North Sound 1380 KRKO, while highlights of audio broadcast, video packages and relevant multimedia will be provided by the Western Hockey League's website, www.whl.ca.

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