KENNEWICK — The Everett Silvertips can take consolation from coming away with a point from their most difficult weekend of the season.
However, the Tips were left wondering what could have been.
Mitch Fadden scored his second goal of the game 1 minute, 10 seconds into overtime, giving the Tri-City Americans a 4-3 victory over the Tips Sunday evening.
Everett, playing its third road game in three nights against the top two teams in the Western Conference, led 2-0 late in the second period and 3-2 with less than four minutes remaining in regulation. However, the Tips were unable to hang on for the two points. Everett is now 0-6 in games decided in overtime this season.
Taylor Procyshen scored his second goal of the game to tie it with 3:38 remaining in regulation, and Chet Pickard made 25 saves in goal for the Americans (33-14-0-3).
Zack Dailey, Alex Theriau and Shane Harper scored for Everett (21-21-6-0), which suffered its sixth straight loss. Kent Simpson finished with 36 saves in net for the Tips.
It looked as though the Tips might just steal a victory when Harper was able to chip a loose puck over Pickard from close range, giving Everett a 3-2 lead at 7:49 of the third period.
Everett absorbed Tri-City’s pressure for much of the remainder of the period, but the Tips couldn’t keep the Americans out at 16:22, Procyshen firing a shot under Simpson after a feed from Johnny Lazo.
The Tips managed to kill off a late Tri-City power play, getting the game into overtime and earning a point. But just 1:10 into the extra period Fadden made a nice move around Simpson to win it.
After a scoreless first period Everett took the lead early in the second thanks to a pair of power-play goals. Dailey opened the scoring at 3:31, tipping Graham Potuer’s shot from the point past Pickard. The Tips made it 2-0 1:37 later when Theriau was able to blast a slap shot past Pickard for his first career WHL goal.
The Americans then turned up the pressure, and while Everett was able to withstand it for a while, Tri-City tied it with goals 36 seconds apart late in the period. Fadden snuck a shot under Simpson on the power play at 16:29, then Procyshen scored on a one-timer out front at 17:05 to knot it up.
Americans 4, Silvertips 3 (OT)
Everett0210—3
Tri-City0211—4
@5. NHL box :First Period—No goals. Penalties—Fadden, Tri-City (roughing), 4:48; White, Everett (hooking), 9:08; Fadden, Tri-City (diving), 9:08; Burt, Everett (cross checking), 10:11.
Second Period—1, Everett, Dailey 7 (Potuer, Ellington), 3:31 (pp). 2, Everett, Theriau 1 (Iwanski, Tochkin), 5:08 (pp). 3, Tri-City, Fadden 18 (Lazo), 16:29 (pp). 4, Tri-City, Procyshen 27 (Reese, Hughesman), 17:05. Penalties—Schmidt, Tri-City (tripping), 3:19; McColm, Tri-City (checking from behind), 4:23; Potuer, Everett (fighting), 5:09; Schmidt, Tri-City (fighting), 5:09; Potuer, Everett (interference), 15:43.
Third Period—5, Everett, Harper 21 (Burt, Hunt), 7:49. 6, Tri-City, Procyshen 28 (Lazo, Stoklasa), 16:22. Penalties—Alexander, Everett (cross checking), 0:58; Schmidt, Tri-City (kneeing), 5:13; Stoklasa, Tri-City (hooking), 12:09; Potuer, Everett (tripping), 17:58.
Overtime—7, Tri-City, Fadden 19 (Schmidt, McColm), 1:10. Penalties—none. Shots on goal—Everett 7-7-14-9—28. Tri-City 12-8-17-3—40. Power-play opportunities—Everett 2 of 5. Tri-City 1 of 4. Goalies—Everett, Simpson 8-5-3-1 (40 shots, 36 saves). Tri-City, Pickard 22-10-0-3 (28 shots, 25 saves). A—5,223.
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