2017-18: After an up and down regular season, the Americans got hot at the right time and went on their best postseason run since 2012. For the first time in team history, they swept their first two rounds knocking off the Kelowna Rockets and Victoria Royals. They met their match […]
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Tri-City Americans – who is coming back from last year’s stacked team?
For the first time since 2012, the Tri-City Americans got to the Western Conference final. They rolled by the Kelowna Rockets and Victoria Royals with eight straight wins on the way. Morgan Geekie and Michael Rasmussen ran up crazy stats and eight Ams hit 10 or more points through the […]
American force Game 6 with 5-2 victory in Everett
Everett, Wa. The Tri-City Americans (10-3) were in unfamiliar territory coming into Saturday night’s Western Conference playoff game number five. They were facing elimination for just the first time this postseason. Dropping Game 3 and 4 at home had put them in this position and now they had a steep […]
Tri-City bounces back with 5-3 win in Game 2 over Everett
The way that the Everett Silvertips jumped all over the Tri-City Americans in Game 1 could possibly be explained by the fact that the Americans had been off for nine days after making quick work of the Victoria Royals in round two and had to get their legs under them […]
WHL Playoff Previews: Kelowna Rockets vs Tri-City Americans
Season Series: Kelowna 2-1-1-0 Tri-City 2-1-1-0 October 17th, 2017 / KEL 1 at TC 2 October 27th, 2017 / TC 3 at KEL 4 OT November 1st, 2017 / KEL 3 at TC 4 OT January 3rd, 2018 / TC 4 at KEL 5 Leading Scorers season series: Kelowna: Carson […]
Americans enter postseason with 6th win in past 7 games
Kennewick, Wa. A long, grueling WHL regular season came to an end last night for the Tri-City Americans (38-25-8-1, 85pts.) and the Seattle Thunderbirds (34-28-8-2, 78pts.). Both teams are headed to the postseason and matchups have been set, so pride was the only thing on the line. But pride is […]
Americans lock up playoff berth by taking down the Giants
Kennewick, Wa. With just over a week left in the regular season, the Tri-City Americans (33-24-8-1, 75 pts.) hosted the Vancouver Giants (34-24-6-3, 77 pts.) for the first time this season. Both the Americans and Giants have struggled a bit lately. Both teams have just four wins in their past […]
Välimäki’s hat trick helps lead Tri-City to its third straight win
Kennewick, Wa. The Tri-City Americans (32-21-7-1, 72 pts.) came into Saturday night looking to win their third straight game for the first time in over three weeks. The Prince George Cougars (20-33-4-4, 48 pts.) came into Kennewick as the team with the worst record in the Western Conference. The Cougars […]
Tri-City extinguishes Blazers as playoff races heat up
Kennewick, Wa. Coming off an important win this past Wednesday against Seattle, the Tri-City Americans (31-21-7-1, 70pts.) were looking to build off of that against the visiting Kamloops Blazers (27-30-1-4, 59pts.). Kamloops beat the Winterhawks in Portland two nights earlier and sat just six points out of the playoffs coming […]
WHL recap: Everett blindsides Tri-City 6-5
Everett 6 Tri-City 5 With Seattle Seahawks hall-of-fame offensive tackle Walter Jones bearing witness, the Everett Silvertips (28-16-1-1) showed off their high-powered offense, the expense of the visiting Tri-City Americans(22-16-5-0). The game, which went back and forth and featured six goals in just one period, was the type of free-flowing […]
