Tri-City Americans run over Calgary Hitmen 5-1
Four players had a goal and an assist, and Vladislav Lukin handed out three assists as the Tri-City Americans improved to 7-1 on home ice with a 5-1 victory Wednesday over the Calgary Hitmen at Toyota Center.
The Americans (14-7-1-0, 29 points) improved to 5-1 in November, and with two-power-play goals, have scored on the man advantage in 11 consecutive games.
Tri-City goalie Evan Sarthou, in his first game at Toyota Center this season, stopped 24 of 25 shots to improve to 3-0-0-0 this season. He was working on a shutout until Calgary’s Micheal Zipp scored at 11:48 of the third period.
Juuso Välimäki, Michael Rasmussen, Tyler Sandhu and Morgan Geekie all had a goal and an assist for Tri-City, while Parker Wotherspoon accounted for the fifth goal.
Geekie opened the scoring at 13:01 of the first period, with Lukin and Sandhu with the assists. It was the 100th career assist for Sandhu, and stretched his point streak (1 goal, 11 assists) to seven games.
Rasmussen assisted on Sandhu’s short-handed goal in the second period to run his point streak (7 goals, 6 assists) to seven games, then scored his league-leading 18th goal of the season at 10:55 of the third period.
Calgary (7-8-2-0, 16 points) is 1-3 on their trek through the U.S. Division. The trip began with a win over Seattle last week, then have lost three in a row to Portland, Everett and now Tri-City.
Americans 5, Hitmen 1
Calgary | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 |
Tri-City | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | 5 |
First — 1, TC, Geekie 11 (Lukin, Sandhu), 13:01 (pp). Penalties — Gennaro, Cal (hooking), 6:13; Stallard, Cal (tripping), 11:01.
Second — 2, TC, Wotherspoon 6 (Välimäki, Lukin), 8:46 (pp). 3, TC. Sandhu 2 (Rasmussen, Yorke), 19:32 (sh). Penalties — Van de Leest, Cal (high-sticking), 6:56; Olson, TC (interference), 18:50.
Third — 4, TC, Välimäki 4 (Leason, Geekie), 7:09. 5, TC, Rasmussen 18 (Lukin), 10:55. 6, Cal, Zipp 2 (Gennaro), 11:48. Penalties — Twarynski, Cal (high-sticking). 9:53; Olson, TC (high-sticking), 10:29; Zipp, Cal (roughing), 14:53; Olson, TC (roughing), 14:53; Gennaro, Cal (roughing), 16:36; Yaremko, TC (slashing), 16:36; Coghlan, TC (interference), 18:34; Yeryomenko, Cal (hooking), 18:54; Krebs, TC (holding), 19:50.
Shots — Cal 10-8-7 — 25. TC 8-5-9 — 22. Power plays — Cal 0-6. TC 2-7. Goalies — Cal, Dumba 2-3-1-0 (22 shots-17 saves). TC, Sarthou 3-0-0-0 (25-24). Referees — Kevin Bennett and Adam Griffiths. A — 2,909.
This story was originally published November 16, 2016 at 10:14 PM with the headline "Tri-City Americans run over Calgary Hitmen 5-1."