2020-21 WHL Season Review: Portland Winterhawks paherald.sk.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from paherald.sk.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wolf stops 37, Silvertips beat Winterhawks 3-2
Updated 10:07 PM;
Wolf stops 37, Silvertips beat Winterhawks 3-2: Dustin Wolf stopped 37 of 39 shots, and Gage Goncalves’s shorthanded goal 39 seconds into the 3rd period gave the Everett Silvertips a lead they never relinquished, as they beat the Portland Winterhawks 3-2 at Memorial Coliseum Tuesday night. It’s Everett’s ninth straight win over Portland going back to last season, and their fifth this season.
Why Everett won: An unspectacular but steady game from Wolf, the WHL’s best goalie. He has now stopped 169 of 179 shots in five games against Portland this season, all wins.
Seattle Thunderbirds at Portland Winterhawks (Sunday rematch): Preview, updates, chat, how to listen and watch
Updated 8:53 AM;
When: Sunday, April 25, 5pm.
Follow:
Portland Winterhawks
Two major positives for the Portland Winterhawks Saturday night: Seth Jarvis finally getting some reward for effort, and the power play breaking out. Jarvis had a hat trick against the Seattle Thunderbirds in a season where his puck luck hasn’t always been there. Two of those goals were on the power play, boosting the numbers of a unit that surprisingly has been near the bottom of the league. The win put them three points ahead of Seattle for 2nd place in the WHL’s US Division, and another win in the Sunday rematch would put them in the driver’s seat for finishing 2nd.
Portland’s offense shut down, Spokane wins 3-1
Updated 8:27 AM;
Headlines
Portland’s offense shut down, Spokane wins 3-1: Spokane scored two goals in a 3-minute stretch of the 2nd period, and made it hold up in a 3-1 win over Portland at Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington. It’s Portland’s third straight loss and Spokane’s second straight win after a 7-game winless start.
Big guns held down: Portland outshot Spokane 36-21, but the quality wasn’t really there. Portland’s top offensive players, Seth Jarvis, Reece Newkirk, and Jaydon Dureau, were held to 7 shots and 0 points.
The 3-minute stretch: Three minutes early in the 2nd turned the game around on the scoreboard. A very bad defensive breakdown by Portland at the end of a power play led to a Spokane breakaway goal by Bobby Russell. Then, after a penalty to Brody Tallman, Spokane’s Adam Beckman scored the winner on the power play. Beckman, who leads the Western Hockey League in shots per game by a wide margin,