Tri-City Americans score 18 goals in 2 games to open preseason
The Tri-City Americans are off to a smashing start to begin the preseason, scoring 18 goals in two games at the Everett Preseason Classic.
Rookie Sasha Mutala and veteran Nolan Yaremko each had a hat trick Friday night as the Americans cruised to a 9-4 victory over the host Silvertips.
Saturday, Vladislav Lukin and Parker AuCoin each scored twice, and Mutala had a goal and two assists as Tri-City beat Portland 9-3.
Tri-City finishes tournament play at 11:30 a.m. Sunday against Vancouver.
On Friday, Yaremko scored twice for a 2-1 lead after the first period. Yaremko finished his hat trick in the second, and Mutala scored three goals for a 6-2 lead after 40 minutes. Morgan Geekie scored twice, and AuCoin added a goal in the third for Tri-City, which was outshot 39-36 by Everett.
Brett Leason handed out four assists for Tri-City, while Beck Warm picked up the win in goal.
Saturday, Tri-City led 4-0 before Portland got on the board late in the second period. The Americans closed out the game with five goals in the third period.
Patrick Dea picked up the win in goal for Tri-City, which outshot the Winterhawks 35-30.
Americans 9, Silvertips 4
Tri-City | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | 9 |
Everett | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 4 |
First — 1, Evt, Bajkov 1 (Fonteyne, Walker), :16. 2, TC, Yaremko 1 (Krebs, Stewart), 6:00. 3, TC, Yaremko 2 (James), 18:45.
Second — 4, Evt, Bajkov 2 (Fonteyne, Dewar), 1:05. 5, TC, Mutala 1 (Geekie, Leason), 3:17. 6, TC, Mutala 2 (Coghlan, Leason), 4:10. 7, TC, Yaremko 3 (Rasmussen, AuCoin), 9:18 (pp). 8, TC, Mutala 3 (Leason, Bouchard), 15:38.
Third — 9, Evt, Sutter 1, 2:28. 10, TC, AuCoin 1, 3:00. 11, Evt, Christiansen 1 (Bajkov), 6:52. 12, TC, Geekie 1 (Brown, Gatenby), 16:44. 13, TC, Geekie 2 (Leason, Krebs), 18:07.
Shots — TC 5-16-14 — 35. Evt 16-14-9 — 39. Power plays — TC 1-5. Evt 0-4.
Americans 9, Winterhawks 3
Tri-City | 2 | 2 | 5 | — | 9 |
Portland | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 |
First — 1, TC, AuCoin 2, 6:44. 2, TC, Leason 1 (Sapego, O’Reilly), 16:21.
Second — 3, TC, AuCoin 3 (Geekie, Mutala), 1:14 (pp). 4, Sapego 1 (Mutala, AuCoin), 9:46. 5, Por, Gricius 2 (Colina, Veloso), 14:53 (pp).
Third — 6, TC, Lukin 1 (Gatenby, Focht), 5:19. 7, Por, Kolle 1 (Quigley, MacEachern), 7:57. 8, Por, Veloso 1 (Colina, Quigley), 10:20 (pp). 9, TC, Johnson 1, 11:55. 10, TC, Lukin 2 (Bouchard), 12:29. 11, TC, Sawchuk 1, 13:23 (sh). 12, TC, Mutala 4 (Bouchard, Gatenby), 17:55.
Shots — TC 9-10-16 — 35. Por 13-8-9 — 30. Power plays — TC 2-7. Por 2-8.
This story was originally published September 2, 2017 at 5:13 PM with the headline "Tri-City Americans score 18 goals in 2 games to open preseason."