EVERETT — The Seattle Thunderbirds scored six unanswered goals in the second period and stormed to an 11-3 win over the Everett Silvertips on Saturday night at Angel of the Winds Arena.
Lucas Ciona had a hat trick and Kyle Crnkovic scored twice in the game as Seattle won its seventh consecutive game to open the season.
Ryan Hofer, Austin Roest and Ben Hemmerling scored for the Silvertips, who outshot the Thunderbirds 45-29 in the game.
Braden Holt started in goal for Everett (6-2-0-0) and stopped 16 of 24 shots before Tim Metzger finished the game in relief and made two saves on five shots.
Thomas Milic had 42 saves for Seattle (7-0-0-0).
Thunderbirds 11, Siilvertips 3
Seattle 3 6 2 — 11
Everett 2 0 1 — 3
1st Period-1, Everett, Hofer 4 (Hemmerling, Rymon), 7:58. 2, Seattle, Ciona 3 (Crnkovic), 11:58. 3, Seattle, Crnkovic 5 (Davidson, Ciona), 14:13. 4, Seattle, Myatovic 4 (Sawchyn, Hanzel), 15:15 (PP). 5, Everett, Roest 8 (Hofer, Zellweger), 17:07 (PP). Penalties-Korchinski Sea (roughing), 0:22; Mynio Sea (delay of game), 1:45; served by Iginla Sea (too many men), 4:40; Berezowski Evt (high sticking), 14:16; Ciona Sea (holding), 15:53; Gibson Evt (roughing), 19:39.
2nd Period-6, Seattle, Gustafson 2 (Ciona, Schaefer), 9:27. 7, Seattle, Popowich 1 (Sawchyn), 10:09. 8, Seattle, Davidson 3 (Tsakumis, Schaefer), 13:05. 9, Seattle, Hanzel 1 (Gustafson, Sawchyn), 13:41. 10, Seattle, Schaefer 8 (Mynio, Davidson), 14:31. 11, Seattle, Crnkovic 6 (Ciona, Korchinski), 19:19 (SH). Penalties-Korchinski Sea (interference), 0:52; Zellweger Evt (tripping), 10:40; Popowich Sea (hooking), 10:43; Dube Sea (roughing), 13:20; Hoffrogge Evt (roughing), 13:20; Dube Sea (tripping), 17:38.
3rd Period-12, Seattle, Ciona 4 (Korchinski, Tsakumis), 6:54. 13, Everett, Hemmerling 3 (Roest, Zellweger), 13:06 (PP). 14, Seattle, Ciona 5 14:22. Penalties-Korchinski Sea (tripping), 3:18; Lamanna Evt (slashing), 5:40; Dube Sea (roughing), 6:15; Pickford Sea (charging), 11:13; Davidson Sea (slashing), 12:13.
Shots on Goal-Seattle 12-10-7-29. Everett 12-14-19-45.
Power Play Opportunities-Seattle 1 / 4; Everett 2 / 11.
Goalies-Seattle, Milic 4-0-0-0 (45 shots-42 saves). Everett, Holt 5-1-0-0 (24 shots-16 saves); Metzger 1-1-0-0 (5 shots-2 saves).
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