Silvertips rally, fall to Americans in overtime

Published 1:30 am Friday, February 25, 2022

KENNEWICK — Alex Swetlikoff scored on a power play with just 55 seconds remaining as the Everett Silvertips rallied from down 4-1 to force overtime, but Luka Dragicevic scored as time was running down in the extra period to give the Tri-City Americans a 6-5 win on Friday night.

Austin Roest, Jacob Wright, Michal Gut and Olen Zellweger also scored for the Silvertips in the game.

Koen MacInnes made 16 saves and Evan May had three saves for Everett (35-7-3-5).

Americans 6, Silvertips 5 (OT)

Everett 0 1 4 0 — 5

Tri-City 0 4 1 1 — 6

1st Period- No Scoring.Penalties-No Penalties

2nd Period-1, Tri-City, Huo 19 (Bell, Lajoie), 0:24. 2, Everett, Roest 9 (Hemmerling), 6:47. 3, Tri-City, Moravec 12 (Bouchard, Huo), 7:38. 4, Tri-City, Bell 14 (Huo, Ernst), 10:16. 5, Tri-City, Huo 20 (Ernst), 17:25. Penalties-Dragicevic Tc (high sticking), 1:56; Greenway Tc (hooking), 4:49; Gut Evt (tripping), 5:24; Campbell Evt (cross checking), 17:49.

3rd Period-6, Everett, Wright 18 (Gut, Zellweger), 4:34 (PP). 7, Everett, Gut 11 (Hemmerling, Campbell), 6:37. 8, Tri-City, Lajoie 9 (Huo, Bell), 8:19. 9, Everett, Zellweger 11 (Gut, Campbell), 10:21. 10, Everett, Swetlikoff 22 (Zellweger, Gut), 19:05 (PP). Penalties-Huo Tc (hooking), 2:45; Ng Evt (roughing), 7:20; Moravec Tc (roughing), 7:20; Dragicevic Tc (roughing), 17:24; Swetlikoff Evt (high sticking), 19:28.

OT Period-11, Tri-City, Dragicevic 6 (Bell, Moravec), 4:34. Penalties-No Penalties

Shots on Goal-Everett 11-13-19-0-43. Tri-City 8-12-4-1-25.

Power Play Opportunities-Everett 2 / 4; Tri-City 0 / 3.

Goalies-Everett, MacInnes 15-3-0-3 (21 shots-16 saves); May 0-0-1-0 (4 shots-3 saves). Tri-City, Avakyan 5-9-1-0 (43 shots-38 saves).

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