WHL Everett Silvertips

Team Wide Effort Leads to 7-3 Win Over Portland

February 19, 2009 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Everett Silvertips News Release


Everett, WA - The line of Shane Harper (1G, 1A), Zack Dailey (1G, 1A) and Dan Iwanski (2A) combined for six points on Wednesday night in route to a 7-3 victory over the Portland Winter Hawks. Everett had contributions from seven different goal scorers including Byron Froese who took home the night's second star with a goal and an assist pushing the rookie forward to 51 points. WHL rookie leading scorer Kellan Tochkin added two assists increasing his point totals to 64. Cambell Elynuik scored his first career WHL goal Wednesday night in just his second career game. Tyler Parker, Daniel Bartek and Chris de la Lande rounded off the scoring for the 'Tips.

This brings the 'Tips record to 25-26-7-2 with 59 points in 60 games played taking them to fifth place in the Western Conference. Silvertips are now 4-4-1-1 in their last 10 games. The Silvertips return to action Friday night heading to Kennewick, WA to face the Tri-City Americans at 7:05.

Froese collected his 14th goal of the year, on the power play, to open up the scoring Wednesday night. The Silvertips capitalized on a Sawyer Mick hooking penalty at 8 minutes and 42 seconds, scoring just four seconds after the start of the man advantage. Graham Potuer collected his 15th assist of the season setting up Froese and helping Everett to a 1-0 lead. Portland continued to take penalties and the Silvertips continued to take advantage. A 5 on 3 power play led to Dailey's 10th goal of the season at 12:57. Dailey received a Taylor Ellington pass and scored on his second opportunity after a good Kurtis Mucha save, going five-hole and increasing Everett's lead to two. Ryan Kerr's slashing penalty at 14:55 gave Everett their fifth power play of the period and Chris de la Lande would use it to his advantage scoring his fourth goal of the season. The goal, coming at 16:21, started from an amazing tape to tape pass from Shane Harper through the slot finding de la Lande to make the score 3-0 Everett after 20 minutes of play.

Harper continued his strong play into the second period breaking up many Portland breakout's which led to the right winger's 27th goal of the season. Harper collected a rebound off of chances from Dailey and Iwanski pushing Everett's lead to four. Mick would break up Thomas Heemskerk's shutout streak that reached just over 100 minutes of play at 16:29. Mick fought hard in front of the Everett net popping the puck over Heemskerk's shoulder to bring the score to 4-1. Just 16 seconds later Parker found himself on a breakaway, going top shelf past Mucha to give the rookie forward his second career WHL goal at 16:45. Mucha would be pulled after Everett's fifth goal in place of Ian Curtis.

Bartek started off the third with his 16th goal of the season. Bartek increased Everett's lead to 6-1 after collecting an Ellington rebound in front at 50 seconds of the third period. In just his second career WHL game, Elynuik scored his first career WHL goal collecting a Froese rebound on top of the crease at 3:27, making score 7-1 in favor of the Silvertips. Chris Francis put home his 15th of the year after a good pass from Riley Boychuk found Francis alone on the backdoor at 12:34 making the score 7-2. Troy Rutowski added Portland's third goal of the night at 17:51 on the power play. Everett held off the rest of Portland's small comeback to hold on to a 7-3 victory.

The Silvertips come back to Comcast Arena this Saturday, February 21st to take on the Kelowna Rockets 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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