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Tipped Off
03-14-2005, 11:14 AM
This team is like Jekyl & Hyde. Ok for the regular season, but they better find some consistency come playoff time.

From the Everett Herald:
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Everett Silvertips earned a bit of redemption Sunday night.

One day after turning in a tepid performance at home against Portland, the Silvertips rebounded in the Winter Hawks' building, beating Portland 3-1 in a Western Hockey League game.

Karel Hromas, Ryan Blatchford and Cody Thoring scored goals for Everett (32-26-8-2), which regained the advantage in the race for second place and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The Tips, who fell 2-0 to Portland on Saturday, now lead the Winter Hawks (31-27-5-5) by two points with four games remaining. The two teams are already locked into playing one another in the first round.

Michael Wall made 26 saves in net for Everett, which won the season series against Portland 5-3-2.

Cody McLeod scored for the Winter Hawks and Blake Grenier made 25 saves in goal for Portland.

Everett scored first on a fantastic effort by Hromas. At 13:03 of the first period, Hromas took a pass into the zone from Torrie Wheat and while he was knocked down by Portland defenseman Braydon Coburn, he somehow managed to flip a shot over Grenier while falling to the ice, giving the Tips a 1-0 lead with his 15th goal of the season.

The Tips thought they doubled their lead at 7:42 of the second period when a Winter Hawk player, Grenier and the puck were swept into the net together. However, the officials ruled that the puck never crossed the goal line.

Everett stayed with it and did score at 8:36. Curtis Billsten skated coast to coast, went behind the Portland net and fed a pass out front to Blatchford, who scored to make it 2-0 with his third goal of the season.

Everett made it 3-0 with a power-play goal 1:27 into the third period. Thoring, moving from defense to center for the power play, took a feed from Kyle Annesley and scored his fourth goal of the season.

Portland needed just 26 seconds to get that goal back, nice passing between Brandon Dubinsky and Dan DaSilva setting up McLeod for his 30th of the season, cutting Everett's lead to 3-1.

Wall secured the victory, making several good saves in the final three minutes after Grenier was pulled for an extra attacker and Portland poured on the pressure.

Everett center Zach Hamill was rested. Hamill had played the last three games after sitting out the previous four with a sprained ankle, but was given Sunday off on Everett's third game in three nights.

Silvertips 3, Winter Hawks 1

Everett 1 1 1 - 3

Portland 0 0 1 - 1

First Period-1, Everett, Hromas 15 (Wheat, Baranka), 13:03.

Second Period-2, Everett, Blatchford 3 (Billsten), 8:36.

Third Period-3, Everett, Thoring 4 (Annesley, Baranka), 1:27 (pp). 4, Portland, McLeod 30 (DaSilva, Dubinsky), 1:53.

Shots on goal-Everett 11-11-6-28. Portland 5-9-13-27. Power-play opportunities-Everett 1 of 7. Portland 0 of 5.

Goalies-Everett, Wall 23-21-7 (27 shots, 26 saves). Portland, Grenier 13-11-1 (28 shots, 25 saves).