For 2 groups that simply completed collection involving a number of overtimes, maybe it was to some reduction that it solely took 1 minute, 34 seconds into this time beyond regulation to get a winner.
Regardless of some third-period heroics, the Portland Winterhawks got here up quick in OT on Friday because the Everett Silvertips received Sport 1 of the second spherical Western Hockey League playoff collection 3-2 at Angel of the Winds Area in Everett.
Silvertips proper winger Jesse Heslop scored the profitable aim, his first of those playoffs. His was the third Everett participant to the touch the puck on the play, beating Winterhawks goalie Ondrij Stebetak with a shot that discovered the decrease nook of the aim.
Everett, the WHL regular-season champs, was coming off a 4-2 collection win over the Seattle Thunderbirds. The Silvertips received Sport 2 of that collection in time beyond regulation after which clinched with a double-OT win in Sport 6 on Monday.
Portland, the WHL Western Convention No. 5 seed, wanted all seven video games to dispatch Prince George within the first spherical. The Winterhawks misplaced the primary sport of that collection in OT then received Sport 4 in double OT. They received Sport 7 on Monday 4-2 to earn the matchup with No. 1 Everett.
On Friday, Stebetak made 40 saves on 43 photographs. Within the second interval alone, he stopped 20 of 21 photographs.
Portland’s Carter Sotheran, a Philadelphia Flyers prospect, tied the sport at 2-2 with 7:42 to play. Assists went to Hudson Darby and Jordan Duguay. It was Sotheran’s fifth aim of the playoffs.
Tyson Jugnauth, a Seattle Kraken prospect, scored the primary aim of the collection with an help from Sotheran and Ryan Miller 8:42 into the sport.
Everett would tie it up within the second interval on a power-play aim by Austin Roest, a Nashville Predators prospect. Portland had simply six photographs on aim within the interval.
It didn’t take lengthy for the Silvertips to take the lead as Tarin Smith, an Anaheim Geese prospect, scored 2:16 into the third interval.
Up subsequent
Sport 2 of the best-of-seven is at 6:05 p.m. Saturday in Everett. Video games 3 and 4 are in Portland on Tuesday and Wednesday, each with 7 p.m. puck drops.
