pre-season tourney underway

[Tipped Off]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090903/BLOG12/909039982#Preseason.tournament.on.deck.NHL.campers .heading.out

The Everett Silvertips Preseason Tournament begins tomorrow morning. All five U.S. Division teams among with Prince George are taking part, with each team playing each day this weekend at Comcast Arena. Here's the schedule:

FRIDAY
Prince George vs. Seattle, 11:30 a.m.
Portland vs. Spokane, 3 p.m.
Everett vs. Tri-City, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Prince George vs. Portland, 11:30 a.m.
Tri-City vs. Spokane, 3 p.m.
Everett vs. Seattle, 7 p.m.
SUNDAY
Tri-City vs. Prince George, 11:30 a.m.
Seattle vs. Spokane, 3 p.m.
Everett vs. Portland, 7 p.m.

Everett (and everyone else, for that matter) will not be fielding full-strength teams during the tournament because players are beginning to depart for NHL rookie camps. The Tips have seven players headed to NHL camps this year. Left wing Tyler Maxwell (Los Angeles), defensemen Radko Gudas (Los Angeles) and Rasmus Rissanen (Carolina), and goaltender Thomas Heemskerk (San Jose) head out tomorrow, so they will not be participating in any games this weekend. Right wings Cameron Abney (Edmonton) and Kellan Tochkin (Vancouver) leave during the weekend, so they'll at least be able to play Friday night. Center Byron Froese (Chicago) doesn't leave until next week because the Blackhawks aren't holding a separate rookie camp this year, just a short main camp before heading to Europe for preseason games.

What this means is that everyone else will have a busy weekend. The Tips currently have 33 players with the team. With six unavailable for at least part of the weekend, that means some are going to have to play in all three games.

One other note. Goaltender Luke Siemens has arrived, and he participated in practice this morning (sporting his flashy gold and black pads), meaning 15-year-old Andy Desautels won't have to dress in every game this weekend. ...

[Tipped Off]

Seattle 3
Prince George 2

Seattle jumped out to a 3-0 lead. PG responded with goals in the 2nd and 3rd periods to make it a game. Both teams played with 3-6 guys who won't be their by opening day.

About what you'd expect from early live action. No fights. I think there were 3 to 5 Power plays per side.

Seattle 3, Prince George 2

1st Period
1) Seattle – Brennan Tutt, PPG (Jonathan Parker, Sena Acolatse), 10:17

2nd Period
2) Seattle – Mitch Elliott (Tyler Alos, Jacob Doty), 8:11
3) Seattle – Jonathan Parker (Colin Jacobs, Sena Acolatse), 11:00
4) Prince George – Caleb Belter (Parker Stanfield, Daniel Medland-Marchen), 16:50

3rd Period
5) Prince George – James Dobrowolski (Tyler Miller, Taylor Makin), 7:59

GOALIES
PG
Priestner: 19/22
SEA
DeSerres 23/23
Jahraus 12/14

SOG: 1 2 3 OT TOT
PG 17 14 6 37
SEA 10 7 5 22

Standings:
1-0-0-0 2pts - Seattle
0-0-0-0 0pts - Everett
0-0-0-0 0pts - Portland
0-0-0-0 0pts - Tri-City
0-0-0-0 0pts - Spokane
0-1-0-0 0pts - Prine George

[Tipped Off]

I'm not at this game...so I am getting this information from Andy Kemper's After the Whistle Blog (http://afterthewhistle.wordpress.com/)

Portland Vs. Spokane

Looks like the 2nd period is over...score 2-0 Portland - I will add to this post as he updates his blog ofer each period

Rosters:

Portland:

Goaltenders: Keith Hamilton, Ian Curtis (starter)

Defense: Troy Rutkowski, Derrick Pouliot, Joe Morrow, Travis Bobbee, David Watt, Taylor Aronson

Forwards: Oliver Gabriel, Chris Francis, Spencer Bennett, Brad Ross, Ryan Johansen, Radim Valchar, Colin Reddin, Nino Niederrieter, Gasper Kopitar, Taylor Peters, Taylor Orser, Tayler Leier

Scratches:

Ty Rattie, Adam Basford, Luke Walker, Jacob Berglund, Riley Boychuk, Seth Swenson, Stefan Schneider, Jason Grecica, Tayler Jordan, Kyle Madsen, Brett Ponich, Daniel Johnston, Tyler Wotherspoon, Ross Baadsvik, Kurtis Mucha

Spokane:

Goaltenders: Chase Martin, James Reid (Starter)

Defense: Garrett Leedahl, Mike Reddington, Tanner Mort, Landon Oslanski, Reid Gow, Brett Bartman

Forwards: Blake Gal, T.C. Cratsenberg, David Conrad, Mitch Wahl, Brady Brassert, Mitch Holmberg, Mike Betz, Mike Aviani, Connor Chartier, Kenton Miller, Anthony Bardaro, Matt Marantz

Scratches:

Alex Wright, Eddie Friesen, Brenden Kichton, Dustin Donaghy, Steve Kuhn, Stefan Ulmer, Dominik Uher, Jared Cowen

Scoring Summary:

First Period:

16:24 – P – Radim Valchar (Troy Rutkowski) 4 on 3 PP – Rutkowski pass from left point to Valchar in right circle for the one time slapper.

Penalties: 3:58 – S – Wahl (Hooking); 7:36 – S – Brassert (Tripping); 8:40 – P – Valchar (Hooking); 13:39 – S – Leedahl (Holding); 15:44 – P – Orser (Roughing); 15:44 – S – Reddington (Roughing); 16:16 – S – Oslanski (Hooking)

2nd Period:

11:20 – P – Radim Valchar (Derrick Pouliot, Colin Reddin) ES – Pouliot through center, drive down the left wing, beautiful backhand pass to Valchar busting down the slot for the one time slam.

Penalties: 1:25 – S – Conrad (Tripping); 3:50 P – Valchar (Hooking); 4:30 – P – Johansen (Delay of Game); 7:20 – P – Orser (Roughing); 11:45 – P – Aronson (Interference); 15:00 – P – Ross (Holding); 15:00 – S – Reddington (Slashing); 17:57 – P – Redding (Interference)

Third Period:

9:43 – P – Oliver Gabriel (Spencer Bennett, Travis Bobbee ) 5 on 4 PP — Bennett from the left circle with a cross seam pass to Gabriel at the bottom of the right circle…lifts it over a fallen Reid.

16:42 – S – Kenton Miller (Tanner Mort) 5 on 4 PP — Mort with the entry shot, Miller bangs home the rebound.

19:33 – S – Matt Marantz (Landon Orlanski, Mitch Wahl) 6 on 4 PP — With the goalie pulled, Orlanski’s shot slips through a crowd to Marantz on the back door for the tip in.

Penalties: 1:58 – S – Brassert (Holding); 3:58 – S – Mort (Tripping); 6:53 – S – Wahl (Slashing); 9:37 – S – Gow (Interference); 16:17 – P – Niederreiter (Elbow); 17:30 – P – Peters (Roughing)

Shots:

Portland — 22 – 11 – 13 — 46

Spokane — 5 – 5 – 9 — 19

Power Plays:

Portland — 2 for 9

Spokane — 2 for 8

Goaltenders:

Ian Curtis — 17 saves on 19 shots — Reid — 43 saves on 46 shots

Standings:
1-0-0-0 2pts - Seattle
1-0-0-0 2pts - Portland
0-0-0-0 0pts - Everett
0-0-0-0 0pts - Tri-City
0-1-0-0 0pts - Spokane
0-1-0-0 0pts - Prine George

[dondo]

I really miss the Giants not being a part of this -- it was great annual road trip and the Tips fans were always gracious, not to mention meeting fans from the other teams -- (Hats off to the dedicated Winterhawks fans who keep their sense of humour and faith for their team in the face of poor management and bad ownership, here's hoping that they can turn their team around)

-- 9 games in three days was pure heaven and combine that with the excellent micro-brew beer available at the arena and it becomes doubly so.

Apparently the reason that the Giants are not part of it anymore, is that it costs too much, but PG is one of the most financially strapped teams in the league -- how can they "afford" this and the Giants who are one of the more financially solvent teams can't.

I suspect I am being fed a bill of goods here

Have a great tourney folks

[Tipped Off]

Tips 4 - Ams 2

Standings:
1-0-0-0 2pts - Everett
1-0-0-0 2pts - Seattle
1-0-0-0 2pts - Portland
0-1-0-0 0pts - Spokane
0-1-0-0 0pts - Prine George
0-1-0-0 0pts - Tri-City

Interesting that all three games have followed basically the same script. Game 1 Seattle went out 3-0, then won 3-2. Game 2 Portland went up 3-0, then won 3-2. Game three Tips went up 4-0, then won 4-2.

The Tips carried the hitting and aggresiveness in this game while the AMS ended up outshooting the Tips. A lot of those shots came from the point and the blue line in the first two periods. In the third they got inside and got a couple goals.

I was happy with the Tips performance. Both teams had plenty of players going that won't be with the teams, but I thought the aggresiveness of the Tips on the PK was something I definitely didn't see last year...not to mention there were four or five times tonight where people laid out to block shots. For a pre-season game you gotta like that.

Tips press release
Everett Opens Preseason with 4-2 Win Over Tri-City
Simpson stops 30 of 32 in strong performance
Everett Silvertips Press Release

Everett, WA - Nine different players registered a point, Kent Simpson stopped 30 of 32 shots, and the Silvertips used two power play goals to topple the Tri-City Americans 4-2 to open up the preseason Friday night. With the win, Everett improved to 4-0 against Tri-City over the previous three preseasons.

The 'Tips got on the scoreboard just 1:44 into the game when Alex Poulter tucked the puck inside the near post off a feed from Cameron Abney.

Moments later, Simpson made a sprawling glove save, lunging to his left to deny the Americans on a 2-on-1 rush.

The Silvertips doubled their lead shortly afterwards when Byron Froese's rebound found its way directly onto Kellan Tochkin's stick; the sophomore winger buried the puck for the goal at 4:32.

Everett increased the lead to 3-0 on a Shane Harper breakaway off a Dale Hunt pass; Harper snapped the puck between Drew Owsley's for the goal at 3:35 of the second period.

Following a scramble in front of the net where Harper was denied on a puck that appeared to nearly roll past the goal line, Hunt eventually stuffed the puck past Owsley for the four-goal cushion.

Tri-City tallied twice over the final eight minutes of the game. The first goal came on a power play one-timer from Brett Plouffe into the upper reaches of the net; the second squirted past the line following a goalmouth scramble with less than one minute to play.

Owsley stopped 22 of 26 shots for Tri-City in the losing effort.

Everett was 2-8 on the power play, while Tri-City was 1-7.

Everett will match up against the rival Seattle Thunderbirds Saturday evening at 7:00 pm.

1st Period
1) Everett, Alex Poulter (Cameron Abney), 1:44
2) Everett, Kellan Tochkin, PPG (Byron Froese, Alex Theriau), 4:32

2nd Period
3) Everett, Shane Harper (Dale Hunt, Zack Dailey), 3:35
4) Everett, Dale Hunt, PPG (Shane Harper, Ryan Murray), 9:52

3rd Period
5) Tri-City, Brett Plouffe, PPG (Dryden Dow, Kruise Reddick), 12:43
6) Tri-City, Jordan Messier (Adam Hughesman), 19:17

GOALIES

TC
Owsley: 22/26

EVT
Simpson: 30/32

SOG: 1 2 3 TOT

TC 8 13 11--32
EVT 9 11 6--26

[Tipped Off]

Hawks versus PG

Again taken from Kemper's After the Whistle Blog (http://afterthewhistle.wordpress.com/) as I am only going to the Tips game tonight.

Hawks vs. Cougars – Hawks 6-5 in Shootout…
Portland Roster:

Goaltenders: Keith Hamilton (Starter); Ross Baadsvik

Defense: Kyle Madsen, Derrick Pouliot, Tyler Wotherspoon, Travis Bobbee, David Watt, Taylor Aronson

Forwards: Ty Rattie, Adam Basford, Jacob Berglund, Spencer Bennett, Riley Boychuk, Radim Valchar, Colin Reddin, Seth Swenson, Gasper Kopitar, Stefan Schneider, Taylor Orser, Taylor Leier

Scratches: Oliver Gabriel, Chris Francis, Luke Walker, Brad Ross, Ryan Johansen, Nino Niederreiter, Taylor Peters, Jason Grecica, Tayler Jordan, Troy Rutkowski, Joe Morrow, Brett Ponich, Daniel Johnston, Ian Curtis, Kurtis Mucha

Prince George Roster:

Goaltenders: Michael Salmon (Starter), James Priestner

Defense: Daniel Gibb, Dane Phaneuf, Jesse Forsberg, Bruin McDonald, Tyler Miller, Jeff Regier

Forwards: Bobby Asham, Justin Bertow, Troy Bourke, Robbie Ciolfi, Wilson Dumais, Greg Fraser, Jordan Lane, Kyzen Loo, Caleb Belter, John Odgers, Alex Rodgers, Jaroslav Vlach

Scratches: Taylor Makin, Nick Buonassissi, Brett Connolly, James Dobrowolski, Tyler Halliday, Brock Hirsche, Parker Stanfield, Marek Viedensky, Art Bidlevskii, David Greyeyes, Dallas Jackson, Daniel Medlan-Merchand, Joshua Smith

1st Period:

1:30 – PG – Jeff Regier (Jaroslav Vlach, Jordan Lane) — Vlach’s shot from the slot is stopped by Hamilton, but the puck slipped behind him and Regier tipped it home.

2:07 – P – Ty Rattie (Tyler Aronson, Jacob Berglund) – Aronson’s wrist shot from the point is deflected in by Rattie in front of the net.

7:27 – P – Jacob Berglund (Travis Bobbee, Ty Rattie) 5 on 3 PP — Bobbee’s entry shot hits a defenseman, Berglund picks it up at the top of the paint and wrists it home.

12:04 – PG – Robbie Ciolfi (Caleb Belter) 5 on 4 PP — Belter a shot from a bad angle, Ciolfi roofs the rebound.

17:29 – PG – Troy Bourke (Kyzen Loo, Daniel Gibb) 5 on 4 PP — Bourke drive down the left wing, roofs a wrist shot from the bottom of the faceoff dot.

Penalties: 4:49 – PG – Lane (Roughing/Roughing); 4:49 – P – Madsen (Roughing); 6:03 – PG – Miller (Tripping); 7:11 – PG – Gibb (Cross Check); 11:23 – P – Rattie (Interference); 12:57 – PG – Miller (Roughing); 14:11 – P – Rattie (Holding); 15:39 – P – Watt (Tripping); 19:33 – PG – Bench (Too Many Men)

2nd Period:

No Scoring

Penalties: 00:32 – P – Boychuk (Roughing/Fighting/Game Misconduct); 00:32 – PG – Miller (Roughing/Fighting/Game Misconduct); 1:43 – P – Leier (Goaltender Interference); 3:57 – P – Orser (Hooking); 6:32 – PG – Regier (Roughing); 6:32 – P – Orser (Fighting/Game Misconduct); 6:32 – PG – Forsberg (Fighting/Game Misconduct); 8:33 – P – Berglund (Roughing); 8:33 – PG – Phaneuf (Roughing); 9:58 – PG – Regier (Holding); 17:53 – PG – Gibb (Hooking)

3rd Period:

9:26 – PG – Alex Rodgers (Troy Bourke) 5 on 4 PP — Give and go with Rodgers putting it home from the slot.

13:31 – P – Jacob Berglund (Radim Valchar) SH – Great pass from Valchar springs Berglund on the breakaway…nice move to backhand for the roof shot.

15:38 – PG – Greg Fraser (Robbie Ciolfi) SH – Two on one with Fraser handling the pass and making a nice backhand move.

16:14 – P – Tyler Wotherspoon (Unassisted) PP – Wotherspoon holds it in at the point steps to the middle and fires it off the post and in.

18:21 – P – Travis Bobbee (Jacob Berglund, Ty Rattie) — Bobbee fires it through a screen and off a PG defender and in.

Penalties: 2:05 – PG – Lane (Delay of Game); 8:12 – P – Pouliot (Roughing); 12:10 – P – Swenson (Interference); 15:20 – PG – McDonald (Hooking)

Overtime:

No Scoring

Penalties: 1:37 – PG – Regier (Holding)

Shootout:

Portland – Berglund (Goal), Rattie (Miss), Leier (Goal), Pouliot (Miss), Reddin (Goal)

Prince George – Bourke (Goal), Ciolfi (Miss), Vlach (Goal), Fraser (Miss), Rodgers (Miss)

Berglund’s goal was of Datsyukian proportions…

Shots:

Portland — 19 – 18 – 21 – 4 — 62

Prince George — 13 – 4 – 7 – 2 — 26

Power Plays:

Portland — 2 for 11

Prince George — 2 for 7

2-0-0-0 4pts - Portland
1-0-0-0 2pts - Everett
1-0-0-0 2pts - Seattle
0-1-0-1 1pts - Prince George
0-1-0-0 0pts - Spokane
0-1-0-0 0pts - Tri-City

[Tipped Off]

Game 5
Ams 4 - Spokane 3

I pretty evenly played game throughout. Lazo scores with less than a minute to go to give the AMS the W

Game 6
Everett 5 - Seattle 1

Everett came out slow and seattle out performed them in the the first period. The shots were pretty even after 1, but Seattle was forcing the play and winning all the battles on the boards.

In the middle of the 2nd period, tied at 1, Seattle changed goalies form PIckard to Jahraus. That seemed to take the life out of them. Everett dominated from that pointscoring four more unanswered goals and outshooting Seattle by a 2-1margin.

With Everett Playing Portland tonight...the winner clinches the best record in teh tournament.

1st Period
1) Seattle - Branden Troock (Lindsey Nielsen, Charles Wells), 5:42
2) Everett - Markus McCrea (Josh Winquist), 18:28

2nd Period
3) Everett - Kellan Tochkin (Ryan Murray, Chris de la Lande), 10:35
4) Everett - D. Jay McGrath (Dale Hunt, Ryan Murray), 16:05

3rd Period
5) Everett - Corey Tyrell (Ryan Murray), 9:23
6) Everett - Josh Winquist (Ryan White, Paul Sohor), 18:39

GOALIES

SEA
Calvin Pickard: 12/13
Kyle Jahraus: 22/26

EVT
Kent Simpson: 21/22

SOG
SEA 9 8 5 --22
EVT 11 11 17 --39


Standings.
2-0-0-0 4pts - Everett
2-0-0-0 4pts - Portland
1-1-0-0 2pts - Seattle
1-1-0-0 2pts - Tri-City
0-1-0-1 1pts - Prince George
0-2-0-0 0pts - Spokane

[Tipped Off]

Didn't make it to the day games so can't say too much about them other than...PG beat the AMS 2-1 and Spokane blanked the Birds 3-0

As for the Tips versus Hawks....The Tips scored less than a minute into the game. And that was their only highlight. They looked slower than the previous two games, all three periods were played predominantly in the Portland Offensive zone and the Tips were outshot 29-16 over the final two periods.

The Hawks carried the play, were more physical and skated circles around todays Tips entries. Dunstall played in this game and was virtually invisible. Scherger wasn't impressive either and the Tips seeme dto really miss the speed of Zack Dailey on the Ice. I'm as surprised as anyone that I am typing that because I am/was not a big Dailey fan...but there was a noticeable difference in getting to loose pucks, digging out of the corners, etc...

Anyway, here are the stats/press release.

'Tips Fall in Tournament Finale
Everett Silvertips Press Release

Everett, WA - Seven different Silvertips recorded a point, but it wasn't enough to overcome six unanswered goals from the Portland Winterhawks as the Silvertips dropped a 7-3 decision Sunday evening to conclude the Everett Tournament. With the loss, Everett fell to 2-1 in the preseason.

The 'Tips needed just 21 seconds to break onto the scoreboard when Dale Hunt banged in a loose puck in front of Portland netminder Ian Curtis. Markus McCrea and Alex Poulter were credited with the assists.

Portland answered back with a Chris Francis snapshot at 4:19.

Everett regained the lead at 8:22 of the second period when Ryan White's quick release on a wrist shot from inside the blueline eluded Curtis.

Portland then answered back with goals from Taylor Aronson, Ty Rattie and Troy Rutkowski to take a 4-2 lead into the second intermission.

The Winterhawks put the game out of reach with three more goals to open the third period as Joe Morrow, Oliver Gabriel and Gasper Kopitar tallied within a 9:05 span.

The Silvertips finished the scoring on a Drew McDermott blast from the point past a diving Curtis with just over eight minutes to play.

The Silvertips will travel to Kennewick, Washington next weekend to take part in the Red Lion Hotels Tri-City Americans tournament, where they will meet the Spokane Chiefs at 7:00 pm on Thursday, September 10th and the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Friday, September 11th. On Saturday, September 12th the Silvertips will travel to Kent, WA to take on the Thunderbirds.

Final Tournament Standings

Portland:3-0
Everett: 2-1
Tri-City: 1-2
Spokane:1-2
Prince George: 1-2
Seattle: 1-2

Game 9 - Portland @ Everett, 7:00 PM, Sunday

Portland Winter Hawks 7, Everett Silvertips 3

1st Period
1) Everett - Dale Hunt (Markus McCrea, Alex Poulter), 0:21
2) Portland - Chris Francis, PPG (Nino Niederreiter, Travis Bobbee), 4:19

2nd Period
3) Everett - Ryan White (unassisted), 8:22
4) Portland - Taylor Aronson (Stefan Schneider), 9:45
5) Portland - Ty Rattie (Jacob Berglund), 11:28
6) Portland - Troy Rutkowski (Riley Boychuk, Oliver Gabriel), 17:42

3rd Period
7) Portland - Joe Morrow, PPG (Troy Rutkowski, Jacob Berglund), 2:30
8) Portland - Oliver Gabriel, PPG (Riley Boychuk, Troy Rutkowski), 3:33
9) Portland - Gasper Kopitar (Joe Morrow), 11:35
10) Everett - Drew McDermott (Chris de la Lande, D. Jay McGrath), 11:59

GOALIES

POR
Ian Curtis: 25/28

EVT
Kent Simpson: 25/29
Luke Siemens: 10/13

SOG: 1 2 3 TOT

POR 13 16 13--42
EVT 12 4 12--28


Final Standings.
3-0-0-0 6pts - Portland
2-1-0-0 4pts - Everett
1-1-0-1 3pts - Prince George
1-2-0-0 2pts - Seattle
1-2-0-0 2pts - Tri-City
1-2-0-0 2pts - Spokane

[Tipped Off]

from heraldnet.com

Effort lacking in Silvertips’ loss

New head coach Craig Hartsburg has some harsh words for his players after a 7-3 loss to Portland in the final game of the Silvertips Preseason Tournament

By Nick Patterson
Herald Writer

EVERETT — New Everett Silvertips head coach Craig Hartsburg got his first chance to look at his team in a competitive setting this weekend at the Everett Silvertips Preseason Tournament. And with the tournament over, what did he learn?

First, Everett has the talent to win some games this season.

Second, the Tips are a long way off from where Hartsburg wants them to be when it comes to effort.

That second point was hammered home Sunday evening as a short-handed Tips team was smoked by the Portland Winterhawks 7-3 in the final game of the tournament.

Seven different players scored for Portland, with the Winterhawks scoring six consecutive goals during a span of the second and third periods to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 7-2 lead.

And even though Everett fielded a lineup well short of full strength Sunday — nine players who are arguably among Everett’s top 15 did not participate — and even though the Tips still finished 2-1 at the tournament, Hartsburg didn’t mince words with his evaluation of the team after three exhibition games.

“I really thought we got out-competed for most of the night,” Hartsburg said. “The guys who played tonight are the type who have to take pride in being good, tight, hard-working, checking players. With this group I don’t think a high level of competing is something that’s been stressed enough. It’s something we have to continue to push.

“After a weekend of watching them play, you can start to see some things, some good things we can build with,” Hartsburg continued. “But you can also see why there was a big struggle here last year. To me it’s that competing, that real desire to get your nose dirty consistently. Whether you’re a highly skilled player or a role player, we have to have a bigger commitment to that.”

There was plenty of commitment showed by the Winterhawks, who served notice throughout the tournament they don’t intend to be the doormats they were the past three seasons. Displaying an impressive combination of size, speed, skill and effort, Portland manhandled the Tips for much of Sunday’s game. That was particularly true during the second period, when the Winterhawks outshot the Tips 16-4 despite spending much of the period on the penalty kill.

“Overall they dominated most of the game,” said Everett winger Dale Hunt, who scored just 21 seconds into the game to provide one of Everett’s few highlights. “I think they wanted the puck more, and they have some skilled guys who made some plays and put it in the back of our net.

“Obviously they’ve struggled in the years past, but I think they’re going to be one of the top teams.”

Troy Rutkowski was the only Portland player with three points — he had a goal and two assists — as Portland spread the wealth. Chris Francis, Taylor Aronson, Ty Rattie, Joe Morrow, Oliver Gabriel and Gasper Kopitar scored the other goals for the Winterhawks.

Ian Curtis earned the win in goal, making 25 saves.

Ryan White and Drew McDermott scored the other goals for Everett. Kent Simpson, starting his third game in three nights, stopped 25 of the 29 shots he faced during the first two periods. Luke Siemens, who came on at the start of the third, saved 10 of 13.

Everett led 2-1 midway through the second period, but by then Portland had a stranglehold on the play and the Winterhawks capitalized with three goals in eight minutes. Aronson tied it at 9:45 when he beat Simpson at the near post with a shot from a tight angle, Rattie gave the Winterhawks the lead when he scored on a breakaway 1:43 later, and Rutkowski made it a two-goal lead at 17:42 when he delayed his shot before scoring on a three-on-two.

The Winterhawks then killed it off with a pair of power-play goals off rebounds early in the third, Morrow scoring at 2:30 and Gabriel following suit at 3:33.