Silvertips fall behind early, can’t recover
SPOKANE. - The Spokane Chiefs started quickly, then held on for a 3-2 victory over the Everett Silvertips in a Western Hockey League game Saturday night.
Spokane scored 45 seconds into the game on a goal by Brandon Bowman. The Chiefs upped the lead to 2-0 on Mitch Wahl’s goal later in the period.
Everett cut the deficit to 2-1 on Zach Hamill’s seventh goal of the season at the 2:21 mark of the second period, but Spokane answered about six minutes later on Levko Koper’s goal.
Shane Harper scored with 2:55 remaining for the Silvertips to make it 3-2, but they could not get the equalizer.
Irving Leland stopped 25 of 28 shots for Everett (11-10). Dustin Tokarski stopped 26 of 28 shots for Spokane.
CHIEFS 3, SILVERTIPS 2
Everett
0
1
1
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2
Spokane
2
0
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3
First — 1, Spokane, Bowman 12 (Bruton), 0:45. 2, Spokane, Wahl 6 (Bruton, Ulmer), 15:14. Second — 3, Everett, Hamill 7 (Crowley, Beach), 2:21 (pp). 4, Spokane, Koper 4 (Langlow, Johnson), 8:57. Third — 5, Everett, Harper 4, 17:05. Shots on goal — Everett 8-4-16 — 28. Spokane 13-8-7 — 28. Power plays — Everett 1-3; Spokane 0-3. Goalies — Everett, Irving (28 shots-25 saves). Spokane, Tokarski (28-26). A — 7,238.