Tips Take Down T-Birds
February 6, 2016 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Seattle Thunderbirds News Release
KENT - The Everett Silvertips defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 4-1 Saturday night in front of 5,316 at ShoWare Center.
The T-Birds have a home-and-home series with the Kelowna Rockets on Monday and Tuesday. They are in Kelowna on Monday for a 2pm game. The two teams then play on Tuesday at 7:05pm at ShoWare Center.
Everett (32-16-2-2) took a 1-0 lead at 10:16 of the first period on a wraparound goal by Carson Stadnyk. Cole MacDonald had the only assist.
Stadnyk put back a rebound at 14:43 of the first to give the Silvertips a 2-0 lead. Remi Laurencelle and MacDonald had the assists.
Seattle outshot Everett 8-5 in the first period.
The Silvertips took a 3-0 lead on a power-play goal from Graham Millar at 7:38 of the second period. Matt Fonteyne and Noah Juulsen had the assists.
Logan Flodell replaced Landon Bow in Seattle's after the media timeout of the second period. Bow finished with nine saves on 12 shots. His record falls to 16-20-4-0 with the loss.
The T-Birds lead 18-12 in shots after two periods by outshooting the Silvertips 10-5 in the period.
Seattle (28-21-3-0) got on the board at 2:45 of the third period on an unassisted goal from Brandon Schuldhaus. Schuldhaus took a shot from the left point with traffic in front of Everett goalie Carter Hart. The shot found the back of the net for Schuldhaus' second goal of the season.
Millar scored at 15:26 of the third, just after a T-Birds power play ended, to get the Silvertips fourth goal. Fonteyne and Kevin Davis were credited with the assists.
Flodell stopped five of six shots in 28 minutes of action.
Hart made 23 saves on 24 shots and his record is now 31-15-1-2.
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2015-16 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 am to 5 pm Saturday game days at 10 am and Sunday game days at noon.
T-Birds season tickets are currently on sale. Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.
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