PORTLAND, Ore. — Goals came in threes Saturday night in the game between the Everett Silvertips and Portland Winterhawks. Unfortunately for the Tips, both sequences went in Portland’s favor.
Portland scored the first and third goals of three-goal sequences at both the beginning and end of the game, and that proved to be the difference as the Winterhawks knocked off Everett 5-3.
There were three goals in a span of 1 minute, 30 seconds inside the game’s first five minutes, with Portland scoring the first and last goals to take a 2-1 lead. Then, with the Winterhawks holding a 4-3 lead in the game’s final five minutes, Portland scored the first and last goals as the teams found the net three times in just 31 seconds, providing the final margin.
Paul Bittner scored twice to lead Portland (16-13-0-3). Miles Koules, Dominic Turgeon and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored the other goals for the Winterhawks, while Adin Hill earned the win in net with 21 saves.
Cole MacDonald, Graham Millar and Remi Laurencelle scored for Everett (17-7-3-1). Carter Hart started the game in goal for the Tips, but was pulled after allowing two goals on Portland’s first three shots. He returned at the start of the second period and ended up making 20 saves on 24 shots. Austin Lotz stopped five of six during his first-period cameo.
Portland took the lead just 2:59 into the game as Bittner’s centering feed banked off the skate of a defender in front and into the net. Everett struck less than a minute later as the Tips won a faceoff in the Portland zone and moved the puck to MacDonald, who beat Hill with a shot from the point to tie it at 1-1 at 3:54. But Portland regained the lead on the very next shift, Bittner putting a shot into the top corner at 4:29 to send Hart to the bench in favor of Lotz.
The teams traded goals, with Koules scoring on a rebound late in the first period and Millar scoring on a tip in front late in the second, setting up the frantic finale. Everett’s Kohl Bauml had a half chance while the Tips were short-handed, but went hard into the boards and stayed down. While Bauml was down behind the play, the Winterhawks went the other way and Turgeon scored just after the penalty ended to make it 4-2 at 16:27.
Everett got that goal back just 13 seconds later as Nikita Scherbak circled the net and fed the puck out front for Laurencelle to put away. But just another 17 seconds later Portland scored again, Bjorkstrand taking advantage of a funny bounce to tuck home a rebound to essentially put the game away.
Winterhawks 5, Silvertips 3
Everett111—3
Portland302—5
First Period—1, Portland, Bittner 10 (Hanson, Texeira), 2:59. 2, Everett, MacDonald 6 (Bajkov, Bauml), 3:54. 3, Portland, Bittner 11 (Bjorkstrand, Viveiros), 4:29. 4, Portland, Koules 11 (De Leo, Viveiros), 18:19. Penalties—Wharrie, Everett (fighting), 6:38; McKenzie, Portland (checking from behind), 6:38; Overhardt, Portland (fighting), 6:38; Bjorkstrand, Portland (tripping), 14:27.
Second Period—5, Everett, Millar 9 (Skrumeda, Scherbak), 15:50. Penalties—Turgeon, Portland (cross checking), 9:31; Bajkov, Everett (slashing), 12:13; Cederholm, Portland (high sticking), 20:00.
Third Period—6, Portland, Turgeon 9 (Koules, Schoenborn), 16:27. 7, Everett, Laurencelle 7 (Scherbak, Nikolishin), 16:41. 9, Portland, Bjorkstrand 20 (Viveiros), 16:58. Penalties—Mykitiuk, Everett (10-minute misconduct), 4:52; Betker, Everett (fighting), 11:15; Iverson, Portland (interference-fighting), 11:15; Juulsen, Everett (high sticking), 14:09.
Shots on goal—Everett 9-7-8—24. Portland 9-13-8—30. Power-play opportunities—Everett 0 of 5. Portland 0 of 2.
Goalies—Everett, Hart 4-2-2-0 (24 shots, 20 saves), Lotz (6 shots, 5 saves). Portland, Hill 6-2-0-0 (24 shots, 21 saves).
A—10,095.
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