The Kamloops Blazers scored a power play goal with a little over six minutes to go to snap a 2-2 tie and eventually snap the Chiefs five game home winning streak on Saturday night in the Spokane Arena. The Chiefs record drops to 11-10-3-0 through 24 games.
The Chiefs took a 1-0 lead at 13:33 of the first when Seth Compton tallied his fifth of the season. Levko Koper earned his first career WHL point on the play.
In the second, Kamloops scored goals 27-seconds apart by Brock Nixon and Ryan Bender at 6:20 and 6:27, respectively. Nixon's came on the power play.
Drayson Bowman would tie the game at 17:39 of the period when Derek Ryan picked the pocket of a Blazer in the corner and fed it out front to the 17-year-old. Bowman tallied his 10th of the season.
Kamloop's Reid Jorgensen scored the game winner at 13:57 and then iced the game with 18-seconds remaining with an empty netter.
The Blazers outshot Spokane 36-20 and finished the night 2-8 on the power play. The Chiefs were 0-4. Dustin Tokarski made 32 saves.
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