PORTLAND — The crew with the very best file within the Western Hockey League will go into 2025 with that designation intact.
The Everett Silvertips performed spoiler to the Portland Winterhawks New Yr’s Eve celebration crowd of seven,573 with a 7-3 victory Tuesday night time at Memorial Coliseum.
Everett (28-5-2-1, 57 factors) gained its fourth recreation in a row whereas ending Portland’s win streak at six video games. The Winterhawks (20-13-2-0, 42 factors) are third within the WHL’s U.S. Division behind Everett and Spokane.
The Silvertips began quick with Lukas Kaplan scoring 43 seconds into the sport.
Portland would tie it up at 9:26 within the first interval when Kyle McDonough scored a short-handed objective, assisted by Kyle Chyzowski.
Everett would then rating the subsequent 4 objectives of the sport, two approaching energy performs, plus back-to-back objectives by Dominik Rymon for a 5-1 benefit early within the second interval.
Josh Zakreski’s twenty first objective of the season on a Portland energy play despatched the sport into the third interval with Everett on high 5-2. Diego Buttazzoni scored his seventeenth objective of the season to get Portland inside 5-3, however Everett would add a power-play objective by Tyler MacKenzie and an empty netter from Jesse Heslop to complete it.
Faculty certain
Portland defenseman Tyson Jugnauth, a 2022 NHL draft choose of the Seattle Kraken from Kelowna, B.C., introduced Tuesday has dedicated to Michigan State for subsequent season. As a 20-year-old, Jugnauth’s WHL eligibility runs out on the finish of this season, which is his second in Portland after two years on the College of Wisconsin. He leads all WHL defensemen with 47 factors as he rides a 10-game level streak with 19 assists.
Up subsequent
The primary recreation of the brand new yr for the Winterhawks is Thursday at dwelling in opposition to Spokane. It will likely be the primary of three video games in a row for Portland as it will likely be at Tri-Metropolis on Friday and again dwelling Saturday to play Wenatchee.
