The Tri-City Americans dropped their third straight game with a 4-3 loss to the Seattle Thunderbirds on Sunday at Sho Ware Center in Kent. It was the Americans' seventh straight road game.
Tri-City (45-21-1-2, 93 points) led the Western Conference in points from
Dec. 13 until yesterday's 6-3 loss to Portland, but remains tied with Everett (44-19-3-2, 93) for the conference lead with three games left in the regular season.
Tri-City fell behind 2-0 after goals by Seattle's Burke Gallimore and Tyler Alos in the first 4:47 of the first period. Neal Prokop responded for the Ams with a goal at 6:34 to cut the lead to 2-1, but the T-birds picked up two more goals in the second period to take a 4-1 lead.
The Ams got third-period goals from Johnny Lazo and Justin Feser to pull within one at 4-3, but Seattle goalie Calvin Pickard held them from there.
Tri-City goalie Alexander Pechurskiy stopped 24 of 28 shots.
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Not only have the Thunderbirds lost 19 consecutive games in Kennewick, they had two goals disallowed Friday night in a 7-3 loss to the Tri-City Americans before an announced crowd of 6,064.
Adam Hughesman and Patrick Holland each had two goals to lead the Americans to their 12th consecutive win, as well as their 12th win in a row on home ice.
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LETHBRIDGE, Alberta -- The Tri-City Americans made a clean sweep of their three-game trek through the Central Division, wrapping up their road trip with a 7-3 victory Saturday night over the Lethbridge Hurricanes at Enmax Centre.
Defenseman Zach Yuen scored two goals and Patrick Holland, playing in his hometown, had a goal and two assists for the Americans (15-5-0-0, 30 points), who have won five in a row.
"We played pretty well except for the first 40 minutes tonight," Tri-City coach Jim Hiller said. "Fortunately, we were able to get away with a subpar performance in the first two periods."
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KENT -- Patrick Holland scored the game-winner at 6:29 of the third period Friday night to lead the Tri-City Americans to a 4-2 victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds at ShoWare Center.
The Americans (20-7-0-0, 40 points), coming off an abysmal 6-2 loss Wednesday to Kelowna, kept their slim lead atop the Western Conference and U.S. Division with their league-leading 20th win.
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KENNEWICK — The Tri-City Americans have the Victoria Royals at home tonight, but there’s a couple of items from last night worthy of mentioning.
With his two goals, Justin Feser hit the century mark, and Adam Hughesman played his 316th game, moving past Kruise Reddick (315) into sixth place on the all-time games played list.
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KENT -- The Tri-City Americans had their shots -- 43 of them, to be precise -- but the host Seattle Thunderbirds made the most of their chances for a 3-0 WHL win Friday at ShoWare Center in Kent.
Sean Aschim, Chance Lund and Burke Gallimore each scored in the third period for Seattle, with the first two goals coming inside of six minutes of the final period.
The margin came despite the Americans' 15-9 shooting advantage in the period. Aschim's goal came on the power play, another twist to the game.
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