Seattle Thunderbirds at Prince George Cougars Tuesday, January 16
Seattle Thunderbirds at Prince George Cougars
Tuesday, January 16
Previous Game…The Portland Winterhawks defeated the T-Birds 5-4 on January 13 in Portland. Dillon Hamaliuk scored two goals and Donovan Neuls and Nolan Volcan each had a goal. Liam Hughes started the game and made 14 saves on 17 shots before leaving due to injury. Dorrin Luding came on and had 20 saves on 22 shots. Skyler McKenzie scored twice for Portland and Cody Glass, Joachim Blichfeld and Ryan Hughes each had a goal. Shane Farkas had 23 saves on 27 shots for Portland. Winning Ways…The T-Birds have points in nine of their last 11 games with a 7-2-1-1 record. The T-Birds have outscored opponents 52-40 in the last 11 games. T-Birds Acquire Jaxan Kaluski…Seattle Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced January 10 the team acquired left wing Jaxan Kaluski from the Moose Jaw Warriors in exchange for a sixth-round pick in the 2019 Bantam Draft. Kaluski, a rookie from Lloydminster, Alberta, has two goals and one assist in 22 games with the Warriors. He will wear #17. T-Birds Acquire Owen Williams…Seattle Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced January 10 the team acquired defenseman Owen Williams and a second-round pick in the 2019 Bantam Draft from the Regina Pats in exchange for defenseman Aaron Hyman. Williams, a rookie from Delta, British Columbia, has appeared in 28 games with the Pats this season and has one assist. Williams is a left-shot defenseman who is a 2000 birth year and will wear #25. T-Birds Trade Matt Berlin…Seattle Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced January 8 the team traded goalie Matt Berlin to the Kootenay Ice in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2018 Bantam Draft. Berlin has a 12-7-2-1 record in 24 games this season. He has a goals against average of 3.40 and a save percentage of .893 with one shutout. Berlin was acquired from the Spokane Chiefs last season and had a 7-2-2-0 record with a 2.82 goals against average and a .902 save percentage as the T-Birds won the 2017 WHL Championship. T-Birds Trade Elijah Brown…Seattle Thunderbirds general manger Russ Farwell announced January 9 the team traded center Elijah Brown to the Medicine Hat Tigers for a second-round pick in the 2018 Bantam Draft and a conditional third round pick in the 2019 Bantam Draft. This season Brown had one goal and four assists in 13 games. He played 64 games in the 2016-17 season and had four goals and nine assists for 13 points. Brown was the T-Birds first round pick, 15th overall, in the 2015 Bantam Draft. Streaking Birds…Reece Harsch has a four-game point streak with two goals and two assists in the last four games but is currently out with a lower body injury…Dillon Hamaliuk has a two-game goal streak with three goals and an assist in the last two games…Turner Ottenbreit has a two-game assist streak…Jarret Tyszka has a two-game assist streak. 11 With 20 Or More…11 T-Birds have 20 or more points this season. They are Donovan Neuls (14-31-45), Nolan Volcan (16-26-44), Zack Andrusiak (18-22-40), Austin Strand (14-25-39), Sami Moilanen (17-12-29), Jarret Tyszka (6-23-29), Noah Philp (8-19-27), Turner Ottenbreit (5-21-26), Dillon Hamaliuk (10-14-24), Matthew Wedman (7-1421), and Reece Harsch (9-12-21). Fourth On The PK…The T-Birds are fourth in the WHL on the penalty kill. They have an 80.1% penalty kill rate having given up 36 goals on 181 shorthanded chances. Seventh On The Power Play…The T-Birds are seventh in the WHL on the power play. They have a 23.9% conversion rate with 40 goals on 167 chances. Donnie On The Mark…Donovan Neuls has 14 goals and 31 assists for 45 points in 42 games this season and is first on the team in scoring. Neuls has five goals and six assists in the last six games. Neuls has 49 goals and 100 assists for 149 points in 254 career games with the T-Birds. His 45 points this season are a career high.
Volcan Point Watch…Nolan Volcan has 18 goals and 26 assists for 44 points in 42 games this season and is second on the team in scoring. He had a team season high of a goal and four assists December 17 at Spokane in a 10-3 win. Volcan had back-to-back games with two goals against Everett on November 17 and 18 and has 12 goals and 15 assists in the last 24 games. He has tied his career high for points in a season and has played 235 career games and has 59 goals and 82 assists for 140 points. Zack Attack…Zack Andrusiak has four goals and 14 assists in the last 14 games and 10 goals and 15 assists in the last 21 games and is third on the team in scoring with 18 goals and 22 assists for 40 points in 42 games. Strand Signs With Los Angeles Kings…Defenseman Austin Strand signed a three-year entry level contract with the Los Angeles Kings on November 27. Strand, a 20-year old from Calgary, is third on the team in scoring. He has 14 goals and 25 assists for 39 points in 39 games. 10 of Strand’s 14 goals have come on the power play which puts him in a tie with David Quenneville of Medicine Hat for most power-play goals by a defenseman. Strand has four goals and five assists in the last 10 games. Strand is tied for ninth in the WHL in scoring by defenseman with Henri Jokiharju of Portland and is 12 points behind first place David Quenneville of Medicine Hat who has 51 points on 19 goals and 32 assists. Hammerin’ Hamaliuk…Dillon Hamaliuk has five goals and 10 assists in the last 12 games. He had an eight-game point streak end in the win over Spokane on January 6. The streak is tied with Matthew Wedman for the longest point streak of the season by a T-Bird. Hamaliuk is seventh in the WHL in rookie scoring with 10 goals and 14 assists for 24 points. He is 12 points behind Peyton Krebs of Kootenay who has nine goals and 26 assists. Tyszka Tallying…Defenseman Jarret Tyszka has three goals and 12 assists in the last 13 games. He is tied for 16th in the WHL in scoring by defensemen with six goals and 23 assists for 29 points. Harsh Hitting The Net…Defenseman Reece Harsch has six goals and five assists in the last 12 games. Sami Lighting The Lamp…Sami Moilanen has six goals and five assists in the last 15 games he has played. Moilanen is fifth on team in scoring with 17 goals and 12 assists for 29 points in 32 games. NHL Central Scouting released their November Players To Watch and Moilanen received a C Ranking which means he is a possible fourth, fifth or sixth round selection in the 2018 NHL Draft. Wedman With Points…Matthew Wedman has four goals and nine assists in the last 11 games. He had an eight-game points streak snapped in the shootout loss to Portland. This streak is tied with Dillon Hamaliuk for the longest point streak by a T-Bird this season. Fastest Goal…Donovan Neuls scored 20 seconds into the game against the Spokane Chiefs on December 17 which is the fastest goal to start the season for the T-Birds. First Points…Nikita Malukhin scored the first two goals of his career in the 10-3 win over Spokane on December 17. He scored at 14:50 of the second and 19:58 of the third. Holden Katzalay, Mike MacLean and Samuel Huo all had an assist in the 10-3 win over Spokane on December 17. This was the first point of the season for all three. Mike MacLean Added To Roster…Right wing Mike MacLean made his T-Bird debut in the win over Prince George on December 15. He has played in 11 games this season and has one assist. MacLean, from Penticton, British Columbia, was an affiliate player who had been playing the with the Lloydminster Bobcats in the AJHL. He has played 23 games and has three goals and three assists for six points with 106 penalty minutes. MacLean was born in 1998 and played last season for the Summerland Steam in the KIJHL and had six goals and nine assists for 15 points with 187 penalty minutes in 36 games. Hat Tricks…The T-Birds have two hat tricks this season. Sami Moilanen had three goals in a 5-1 win over the Prince George Cougars on September 29. Zack Andrusiak had a hat trick in the 7-4 win over the Lethbridge Hurricanes on October 29. Returning Champions…13 T-Birds on the roster won the 2017 WHL Championship. They are Austin Strand, Turner Ottenbreit, Jarret Tyszka, Reece Harsch, Tyler Carpendale, Sami Moilanen, Donovan Neuls, Zack Andrusiak, Matthew Wedman, Dillon Hamaliuk, Jake Lee, Nolan Volcan, and Carl Stankowski.
NHL DRAFTEES (1) / FREE AGENT TRYOUTS (4) Round # Players 5th 1 Tyszka (2017, Montreal) FA Tryouts 4 Ottenbreit (2017, Ducks), Strand (2017, Edmonton), Volcan (2017, Pitt.), Moilanen (2017, Col.) HOW ACQUIRED Round # Player (year) 1st 2 Tyszka (14), Lee (16) 2nd 3 Volcan (13), Wedman (14), Stankowski (15) 6th 3 Hamaliuk (15-111th), Carpendale (15-125th), Terretta (16) 8th 2 Neuls (12), Harsch (14) 10th 1 Schwebius (16) Euro 2 Moilanen (16), Malukhin (17) List 3 Katzalay, Huo, MacLean Ottenbreit (Sas), Andrusiak (PA), Strand (RD), Bargar (Vic), Philp (Ktn), Hughes (Edm), Luding Trade 9 (Evt), Kaluski (MJ), Williams (Reg) 2017-18 RECORD by MONTH and DAY OF WEEK Month Games Record Home Road September 3 2-1-0-0 2-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 October 10 5-4-0-1 1-3-0-0 4-1-0-1 November 13 4-7-2-0 1-3-0-0 2-3-2-0 December 11 7-2-2-0 5-1-1-0 3-1-1-0 January 13 2-2-0-1 1-1-0-1 1-1-0-0 February 12 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 March 10 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 Totals 72 20-16-4-2 10-8-1-1 10-8-3-1 2017-18 TEAM RECORDS 1-goal games 2-goal games 3-plus-goal games Scoring first Opponent scoring first Leading after 1 period Trailing after 1 period Tied after 1 period Leading after 2 periods Trailing after 2 periods Tied after 2 periods Overtime Record Shootout Record Out-shooting opponent Out-shot by opponent Shots are even vs. BC vs. US vs. WESTERN CONFERENCE vs. Central vs. East vs. EASTERN CONFERENCE
8-7-4-2 5-4 6-5 13-8-2-0 6-8-2-2 8-4-2-0 1-10-1-1 11-3-1-1 9-2-2-0 4-11-2-0 7-2-0-2 1-4 2-2 7-7-2-1 13-9-2-1 0-0-0-0 5-7-1-0 9-6-2-2 14-13-3-2 4-1-1-0 2-2-0-0 6-3-1-0
Day Games Wins Loss OTL SOL Monday 0 0 0 0 0 Tuesday 11 2 1 1 2 Wednesday 7 2 1 1 0 Thursday 1 1 0 0 0 Friday 19 5 6 1 0 Saturday 24 5 9 1 0 Sunday 10 5 0 0 0 Totals 72 20 16 4 2
Tuesday, January 16
Previous Game…The Portland Winterhawks defeated the T-Birds 5-4 on January 13 in Portland. Dillon Hamaliuk scored two goals and Donovan Neuls and Nolan Volcan each had a goal. Liam Hughes started the game and made 14 saves on 17 shots before leaving due to injury. Dorrin Luding came on and had 20 saves on 22 shots. Skyler McKenzie scored twice for Portland and Cody Glass, Joachim Blichfeld and Ryan Hughes each had a goal. Shane Farkas had 23 saves on 27 shots for Portland. Winning Ways…The T-Birds have points in nine of their last 11 games with a 7-2-1-1 record. The T-Birds have outscored opponents 52-40 in the last 11 games. T-Birds Acquire Jaxan Kaluski…Seattle Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced January 10 the team acquired left wing Jaxan Kaluski from the Moose Jaw Warriors in exchange for a sixth-round pick in the 2019 Bantam Draft. Kaluski, a rookie from Lloydminster, Alberta, has two goals and one assist in 22 games with the Warriors. He will wear #17. T-Birds Acquire Owen Williams…Seattle Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced January 10 the team acquired defenseman Owen Williams and a second-round pick in the 2019 Bantam Draft from the Regina Pats in exchange for defenseman Aaron Hyman. Williams, a rookie from Delta, British Columbia, has appeared in 28 games with the Pats this season and has one assist. Williams is a left-shot defenseman who is a 2000 birth year and will wear #25. T-Birds Trade Matt Berlin…Seattle Thunderbirds general manager Russ Farwell announced January 8 the team traded goalie Matt Berlin to the Kootenay Ice in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2018 Bantam Draft. Berlin has a 12-7-2-1 record in 24 games this season. He has a goals against average of 3.40 and a save percentage of .893 with one shutout. Berlin was acquired from the Spokane Chiefs last season and had a 7-2-2-0 record with a 2.82 goals against average and a .902 save percentage as the T-Birds won the 2017 WHL Championship. T-Birds Trade Elijah Brown…Seattle Thunderbirds general manger Russ Farwell announced January 9 the team traded center Elijah Brown to the Medicine Hat Tigers for a second-round pick in the 2018 Bantam Draft and a conditional third round pick in the 2019 Bantam Draft. This season Brown had one goal and four assists in 13 games. He played 64 games in the 2016-17 season and had four goals and nine assists for 13 points. Brown was the T-Birds first round pick, 15th overall, in the 2015 Bantam Draft. Streaking Birds…Reece Harsch has a four-game point streak with two goals and two assists in the last four games but is currently out with a lower body injury…Dillon Hamaliuk has a two-game goal streak with three goals and an assist in the last two games…Turner Ottenbreit has a two-game assist streak…Jarret Tyszka has a two-game assist streak. 11 With 20 Or More…11 T-Birds have 20 or more points this season. They are Donovan Neuls (14-31-45), Nolan Volcan (16-26-44), Zack Andrusiak (18-22-40), Austin Strand (14-25-39), Sami Moilanen (17-12-29), Jarret Tyszka (6-23-29), Noah Philp (8-19-27), Turner Ottenbreit (5-21-26), Dillon Hamaliuk (10-14-24), Matthew Wedman (7-1421), and Reece Harsch (9-12-21). Fourth On The PK…The T-Birds are fourth in the WHL on the penalty kill. They have an 80.1% penalty kill rate having given up 36 goals on 181 shorthanded chances. Seventh On The Power Play…The T-Birds are seventh in the WHL on the power play. They have a 23.9% conversion rate with 40 goals on 167 chances. Donnie On The Mark…Donovan Neuls has 14 goals and 31 assists for 45 points in 42 games this season and is first on the team in scoring. Neuls has five goals and six assists in the last six games. Neuls has 49 goals and 100 assists for 149 points in 254 career games with the T-Birds. His 45 points this season are a career high.
Volcan Point Watch…Nolan Volcan has 18 goals and 26 assists for 44 points in 42 games this season and is second on the team in scoring. He had a team season high of a goal and four assists December 17 at Spokane in a 10-3 win. Volcan had back-to-back games with two goals against Everett on November 17 and 18 and has 12 goals and 15 assists in the last 24 games. He has tied his career high for points in a season and has played 235 career games and has 59 goals and 82 assists for 140 points. Zack Attack…Zack Andrusiak has four goals and 14 assists in the last 14 games and 10 goals and 15 assists in the last 21 games and is third on the team in scoring with 18 goals and 22 assists for 40 points in 42 games. Strand Signs With Los Angeles Kings…Defenseman Austin Strand signed a three-year entry level contract with the Los Angeles Kings on November 27. Strand, a 20-year old from Calgary, is third on the team in scoring. He has 14 goals and 25 assists for 39 points in 39 games. 10 of Strand’s 14 goals have come on the power play which puts him in a tie with David Quenneville of Medicine Hat for most power-play goals by a defenseman. Strand has four goals and five assists in the last 10 games. Strand is tied for ninth in the WHL in scoring by defenseman with Henri Jokiharju of Portland and is 12 points behind first place David Quenneville of Medicine Hat who has 51 points on 19 goals and 32 assists. Hammerin’ Hamaliuk…Dillon Hamaliuk has five goals and 10 assists in the last 12 games. He had an eight-game point streak end in the win over Spokane on January 6. The streak is tied with Matthew Wedman for the longest point streak of the season by a T-Bird. Hamaliuk is seventh in the WHL in rookie scoring with 10 goals and 14 assists for 24 points. He is 12 points behind Peyton Krebs of Kootenay who has nine goals and 26 assists. Tyszka Tallying…Defenseman Jarret Tyszka has three goals and 12 assists in the last 13 games. He is tied for 16th in the WHL in scoring by defensemen with six goals and 23 assists for 29 points. Harsh Hitting The Net…Defenseman Reece Harsch has six goals and five assists in the last 12 games. Sami Lighting The Lamp…Sami Moilanen has six goals and five assists in the last 15 games he has played. Moilanen is fifth on team in scoring with 17 goals and 12 assists for 29 points in 32 games. NHL Central Scouting released their November Players To Watch and Moilanen received a C Ranking which means he is a possible fourth, fifth or sixth round selection in the 2018 NHL Draft. Wedman With Points…Matthew Wedman has four goals and nine assists in the last 11 games. He had an eight-game points streak snapped in the shootout loss to Portland. This streak is tied with Dillon Hamaliuk for the longest point streak by a T-Bird this season. Fastest Goal…Donovan Neuls scored 20 seconds into the game against the Spokane Chiefs on December 17 which is the fastest goal to start the season for the T-Birds. First Points…Nikita Malukhin scored the first two goals of his career in the 10-3 win over Spokane on December 17. He scored at 14:50 of the second and 19:58 of the third. Holden Katzalay, Mike MacLean and Samuel Huo all had an assist in the 10-3 win over Spokane on December 17. This was the first point of the season for all three. Mike MacLean Added To Roster…Right wing Mike MacLean made his T-Bird debut in the win over Prince George on December 15. He has played in 11 games this season and has one assist. MacLean, from Penticton, British Columbia, was an affiliate player who had been playing the with the Lloydminster Bobcats in the AJHL. He has played 23 games and has three goals and three assists for six points with 106 penalty minutes. MacLean was born in 1998 and played last season for the Summerland Steam in the KIJHL and had six goals and nine assists for 15 points with 187 penalty minutes in 36 games. Hat Tricks…The T-Birds have two hat tricks this season. Sami Moilanen had three goals in a 5-1 win over the Prince George Cougars on September 29. Zack Andrusiak had a hat trick in the 7-4 win over the Lethbridge Hurricanes on October 29. Returning Champions…13 T-Birds on the roster won the 2017 WHL Championship. They are Austin Strand, Turner Ottenbreit, Jarret Tyszka, Reece Harsch, Tyler Carpendale, Sami Moilanen, Donovan Neuls, Zack Andrusiak, Matthew Wedman, Dillon Hamaliuk, Jake Lee, Nolan Volcan, and Carl Stankowski.
NHL DRAFTEES (1) / FREE AGENT TRYOUTS (4) Round # Players 5th 1 Tyszka (2017, Montreal) FA Tryouts 4 Ottenbreit (2017, Ducks), Strand (2017, Edmonton), Volcan (2017, Pitt.), Moilanen (2017, Col.) HOW ACQUIRED Round # Player (year) 1st 2 Tyszka (14), Lee (16) 2nd 3 Volcan (13), Wedman (14), Stankowski (15) 6th 3 Hamaliuk (15-111th), Carpendale (15-125th), Terretta (16) 8th 2 Neuls (12), Harsch (14) 10th 1 Schwebius (16) Euro 2 Moilanen (16), Malukhin (17) List 3 Katzalay, Huo, MacLean Ottenbreit (Sas), Andrusiak (PA), Strand (RD), Bargar (Vic), Philp (Ktn), Hughes (Edm), Luding Trade 9 (Evt), Kaluski (MJ), Williams (Reg) 2017-18 RECORD by MONTH and DAY OF WEEK Month Games Record Home Road September 3 2-1-0-0 2-0-0-0 0-1-0-0 October 10 5-4-0-1 1-3-0-0 4-1-0-1 November 13 4-7-2-0 1-3-0-0 2-3-2-0 December 11 7-2-2-0 5-1-1-0 3-1-1-0 January 13 2-2-0-1 1-1-0-1 1-1-0-0 February 12 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 March 10 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0 Totals 72 20-16-4-2 10-8-1-1 10-8-3-1 2017-18 TEAM RECORDS 1-goal games 2-goal games 3-plus-goal games Scoring first Opponent scoring first Leading after 1 period Trailing after 1 period Tied after 1 period Leading after 2 periods Trailing after 2 periods Tied after 2 periods Overtime Record Shootout Record Out-shooting opponent Out-shot by opponent Shots are even vs. BC vs. US vs. WESTERN CONFERENCE vs. Central vs. East vs. EASTERN CONFERENCE
8-7-4-2 5-4 6-5 13-8-2-0 6-8-2-2 8-4-2-0 1-10-1-1 11-3-1-1 9-2-2-0 4-11-2-0 7-2-0-2 1-4 2-2 7-7-2-1 13-9-2-1 0-0-0-0 5-7-1-0 9-6-2-2 14-13-3-2 4-1-1-0 2-2-0-0 6-3-1-0
Day Games Wins Loss OTL SOL Monday 0 0 0 0 0 Tuesday 11 2 1 1 2 Wednesday 7 2 1 1 0 Thursday 1 1 0 0 0 Friday 19 5 6 1 0 Saturday 24 5 9 1 0 Sunday 10 5 0 0 0 Totals 72 20 16 4 2
