Diego Buttazzoni took the puck off the again wall on a breakaway and put it within the web with 2:03 to play within the second time beyond regulation because the Portland Winterhawks beat Prince George 5-4 Wednesday in Recreation 4 of the Western Hockey League playoffs at Portland.
Portland takes a 3-1 lead within the best-of-seven first-round sequence with Recreation 5 coming Friday evening at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Each workforce’s goalies refused to again down within the additional time. Portland’s Ondrej Stebetak stopped 22 photographs within the time beyond regulation intervals alone and 49 of 53 photographs general in almost 97 minutes of ice time.
Prince George goalie Joshua Ravensbergen was simply as spectacular with 26 of 27 photographs stopped in time beyond regulation and 51 of 56 general.
Trailing 4-3 after Carson Carles scored a power-play aim for Prince George with 1:54 remaining, Portland went with the additional attacker and Miller bought puck in entrance of the web and was capable of get it previous Ravensbergen.
The Winterhawks took a 3-2 lead simply 2:37 into the third interval when Hudson Darby scored a power-play aim in entrance of the web. It was additionally his first WHL playoff aim.
Prince George scored the following two targets, one by Los Angeles Kings prospect Koehn Ziemmer and the opposite by Carels, previous to the Winterhawks sending the sport into time beyond regulation.
Carter Sotheran, a 2023 fifth-round draft decide of the Philadelphia Flyers, bought issues began for the Winterhawks shortly, scoring a power-play aim 2:16 into the sport.
The Cougars wouldn’t reply till 2:25 to play within the first interval to tie it up 1-1, however the Winterhawks grabbed the lead going into the second interval with a aim by Chyzowski with 1:10 remaining within the interval.
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Portland seems to shut out the sequence in Recreation 5 on Friday. Puck drops at 7 p.m. on the Coliseum. If crucial, Video games 6 and seven are again at Prince George on Sunday and Monday.
