Tips Week in Review: Everett extends win streak to seven

Published 9:20 am Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Everett Silvertips wrapped up their five-game road trip with a pair of victories on Friday and Saturday, extending their win streak to seven.

Everett (9-0-1-0, 19 points) does not have a regulation loss yet this season. The Silvertips have built a five-point lead in the Western Conference ahead of three other teams tied for second, and they sit atop the league standings by a single point over Saskatoon (9-3-0-0, 18 points) and Edmonton (9-3-0-0, 18 points).

Everett 5, Penticton 2

Facing former Silvertips goaltender Jesse Sanche, Everett managed to jump ahead early when Jaxsin Vaughan fed Rylan Pearce with a cross-ice pass to the right point. Pearce drifted right behind the right circle before ripping a shot through traffic past Sanche at 5:53 of the first period.

Shea Busch doubled the lead at 19:05 with a one-timer off a pass from Julius Miettinen, and Pearce scored his second of the night on a tight-angle shot from the right corner at 1:19 of the second period to make it 3-0.

Carter Bear pushed it to 4-0 with a power-play goal at 14:13 of the second, finishing off a passing sequence from Landon DuPont and Jesse Heslop before Penticton finally got on the board with a goal from Diego Johnson at 3:15 of the third period.

Each side scored one more goal — Nolan Chastko for Everett at 7:22 and Brittan Alstead for the Vees at 19:39 — to make it a 5-2 final.

Silvertips goalie Raiden LeGall earned first star of the game with a 25-save effort, while Sanche capped a busy night with 39 saves in the loss.

Everett 3, Kelowna 2

It took a come-from-behind effort on Saturday to keep the season-opening point streak alive. Recently acquired goalie Anders Miller was tested right away, after Kelowna’s Daniel Pekar slipped behind the defense to retrieve the puck off the wall and beat him from the right circle to make it 1-0 at 3:20 of the first period.

The Rockets doubled the lead at 7:41 of the second period, when Will Sharpe hesitated on a long rebound directly to him behind the left circle, allowing Matias Vanhanen to drift past the shooting lane before firing it to the top right corner.

Everett cut it to 2-1 at 16:51 of the second period, when DuPont intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and sent it up for a zone entry. The puck ping-ponged between Bear and Zackary Shantz before Heslop skated in to push the loose puck in with his backhand.

Given a power-play opportunity following a slashing and unnecessary roughness penalty from Nate Corbet at 18:05 of the second, the Silvertips tied it 2-2 at 19:51 when Miettinen punched in a rebound from the right circle.

It took just 37 seconds into the third period for Everett to take the lead. After Vanhanen and Rhys Jamieson won a board battle near the blue line of Kelowna’s zone, Jamieson fed the puck down to Miettinen outside the left circle and found open ice in the slot to slam home a centering pass to make it 3-2.

Jamieson’s first WHL goal would ultimately serve as the game-winner, with Miller (35 saves) stopping all 12 of Kelowna’s third-period shots to hang on for his first win with Everett.

Three Stars of the Week:

First Star: Julius Miettinen. The 19-year-old forward had two points in each game this past weekend, delivering assists on each of the winning goals. The Seattle Kraken prospect is tied for second in the WHL with 18 points this season.

Second Star: Rylan Pearce. The 20-year-old defenseman had nine career WHL goals entering Friday’s game against Penticton and boosted it by 22.2 percent with a pair of tallies in the 5-2 win.

Third Star: Anders Miller. The 19-year-old goaltender overcame a 2-0 deficit in his Silvertips debut to backstop his new team to victory on Saturday. Kelowna outshot Everett 37-31, but Miller’s 35 saves kept the Silvertips in the game long enough to make the comeback possible.

The week ahead:

The Silvertips return to Angel of the Winds Arena for two matchups on Friday and Saturday after five games on the road. First is Saskatoon, the Eastern Conference co-leaders, at 7:05 p.m. on Friday before a rematch against Penticton on Saturday at 6:05 p.m.