The WHL Bantam Draft is just three days away. It’s always fun to look at the past for each team in the draft and a good way of doing that is to look back at who each team took in past years with the pick number they have this year. […]
Tag: Tri-City Americans
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 […]
Isaac Johnson is looking to extend his long rookie year
On a roster with NHL-drafted talent like Michael Rasmussen, Juuso Vålimåki, Jake Bean, Kyle Olson and Morgan Geekie, it can be easy to overlook Tri-City Americans forward Isaac Johnson. If you are an opponent in the WHL though, you do so at your own peril. The 1999-born Johnson, in his […]
Everett stays perfect on the road in the playoffs with 3-1 victory in Game 4
Behind 29 stops on 30 shots by goalie Carter Hart, the Everett Silvertips accomplished something that now has only been done five times over the past 13 years in the WHL and that is win your first six games on the road in the WHL playoffs. More importantly with their […]
Bajkov and Everett’s depth come through as they beat Tri-City 8-4 in Game 3
To go on a long playoff run in hockey you need your ore unknown players to step up in big games. It also helps when they do that on the same night your star scorer has the best playoff game in his career. Patrick Bajkov netted his first career playoff […]
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 […]
Everett hands Tri-City first playoff loss in Game 1
(Everett, WA) After winning eight straight games to start the WHL playoffs, the Tri-City Americans had not had to face too much adversity. Their power play and top line were clicking at an incredible 48 percent rate and they piled up 46 goals in just eight post-season contests. Friday night’s […]
WHL Western Conference Final preview: Everett Silvertips vs Tri-City Americans
Season series: Everett 5-2-1-0 Tri-City 3-5 9/24/17: Everett 4 Tri-City 1 9/30/17: Tri-City 5 Everett 4 10/18/17: Tri-City 3 @Everett 2(OT) 11/22/17: Everett 3 @Tri-City 0 12/10/17: Everett 4 @Tri-City 3 1/10/18: Everett 4 Tri-City 0 1/15/18: Everett 6 Tri-City 5 3/13/18: Tri-City 4 Everett 2 Tri-City Americans: Second Round […]
Everett Silvertips-Tri-City Americans playoff history
This year’s match up between the Everett Silvertips and Tri-City Americans marks just the fourth time the two have met in the playoffs in the 15 years they have co-existed and the first time in the Western Conference Final. All three previous match ups occurred in the first round with […]
Americans headed to Western Conference championship after sweeping Royals
Kennewick, Wa. When the dust settled Tuesday night on an eventful third period of Game 3 between the Tri-City Americans (8-0) and Victoria Royals (4-7) there seemed to be more questions than answers heading to Game 4. The Royals set a franchise record for playoff goals in a single period […]