Americans rally, but fall to Spokane in OT
Kailer Yamamoto scored just 47 seconds into overtime Saturday to give the Spokane Chiefs a 5-4 home victory over the Tri-City Americans.
With Spokane getting two points on the the night, the U.S. Division standings are getting a little cozy.
Everett leads with 60 points, followed by Portland (58), Seattle (54), Tri-City (53) and Spokane (51).
Tri-City (23-16-7-0), which now is 5-7 in overtime games, will get a much-needed week off before hosting Spokane (24-19-1-2) next Saturday, and Seattle on Sunday.
The Chiefs led 3-0 early in the second period behind goals from Ethan McIndoe, Jake McGrew and Zach Fischer.
Jake Bean and Isaac Johnson scored 1:43 part in the second period to pull the Americans within 3-2 after 40 minutes.
Luke Toporowski gave Spokane a 4-2 lead midway through the third, but the Americans were not done.
Rookie Sasha Mutala scored at 14:21, and rookie defenseman Mitchell Brown scored his second goal of the year at 15:33 to even the score at 4-4.
Dylan Coghlan handed out two assists for the Americans to give him 31 on the year.
Beck Warm got the start for Tri-City, stopping 12 of 14 shots before Patrick Dea took over in the second period. Dea finished with 27 saves.
Chiefs 5, Americans 4 (OT)
Tri-City | 0 | 2 | 2 0 | — | 4 |
Spokane | 2 | 1 | 1 1 | — | 5 |
First — 1, Spo, McIndoe 13 (Anderson-Dolan, Yamamoto), 4:39. 2, Spo, McGrew 11 (McIndoe, Yamamoto), 17:13 (pp).
Second — 3, Spo, Fischer 20 (Elynuik, Woods), 4:32. 4, TC, Bean 8 (AuCoin, Coghlan), 9:17. 5, TC, Johnson 13, 11:00.
Third — 6, Spo, Toporowski 3 (Fafrak, Smith), 10:43. 7, TC, Mutala 7 (Bean, Coghlan), 14:21. 8, TC, Brown 2 (Mutala, Bouchard), 15:33.
Overtime — 9, Spo, Yamamoto 5, :47.
Shots — TC 12-13-10-0 —35. Spo 14-11-18-1 — 44. Power plays — TC 0-3. Spo 1-2. Goalies — TC, Warm (14 shots-12 saves), Dea 11-9-6-0 (20:00 of 2nd, 30-27). Spo, Brkin 8-12-2-0 (35-31). Referees — Tyler Adair and Kevin Webinger. A — 10,397.
This story was originally published January 20, 2018 at 10:46 PM with the headline "Americans rally, but fall to Spokane in OT."