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Seattle Thunderbirds at Prince George Cougars
Wednesday, January 17
Previous Game…The T-Birds defeated the Cougars 5-2 Tuesday at CN Centre. Donovan Neuls had two goals and Nolan Volcan, Austin Strand and Blake Bargar each had a goal. Dorrin Luding had 28 saves to get the win. Max Kryski and Jackson Leppard had goals for the Cougars. Tavin Grant had 29 saves. Winning Ways…The T-Birds have points in 10 of their last 12 games with a 8-2-1-1 record. The T-Birds have outscored opponents 57-42 in the last 12 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 three-game point streak with three goals and four assists in the last three games…Turner Ottenbreit has a three-game assist streak…Donovan Neuls has a two-game goal streak with three goals and an assist in the last two games. 11 With 20 Or More…11 T-Birds have 20 or more points this season. They are Donovan Neuls (16-31-47), Nolan Volcan (19-26-45), Zack Andrusiak (18-23-41), Austin Strand (15-26-41), Sami Moilanen (17-12-29), Jarret Tyszka (6-23-29), Noah Philp (8-19-27), Turner Ottenbreit (5-22-27), Dillon Hamaliuk (10-17-27), Matthew Wedman (7-1522), and Reece Harsch (9-12-21). Third On The PK…The T-Birds are third in the WHL on the penalty kill. They have an 80% penalty kill rate having given up 37 goals on 185 shorthanded chances. Eighth On The Power Play…The T-Birds are eighth in the WHL on the power play. They have a 23.5% conversion rate with 40 goals on 170 chances. Donnie On The Mark…Donovan Neuls has 16 goals and 31 assists for 47 points in 43 games this season and is first on the team in scoring. Neuls has seven goals and six assists in the last seven games, which includes three two-goal games. Neuls has 51 goals and 100 assists for 151 points in 255 career games with the T-Birds. His 47 points this season are a career high.
Volcan Point Watch…Nolan Volcan has 19 goals and 26 assists for 45 points in 43 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 13 goals and 15 assists in the last 25 games. He has passed his career high for points in a season and has played 236 career games and has 60 goals and 82 assists for 141 points. Zack Attack…Zack Andrusiak has four goals and 15 assists in the last 15 games and 10 goals and 16 assists in the last 22 games and is tied for third on the team in scoring with Austin Strand. Andrusiak has 18 goals and 23 assists for 41 points in 43 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 tied for third on the team in scoring with Zack Andrusiak. He has 15 goals and 26 assists for 41 points in 40 games. 10 of Strand’s 15 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 five goals and six assists in the last 11 games. Strand is tied for eighth in the WHL in scoring by defenseman with Dennis Cholowski of Portland and is 10 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 13 assists in the last 13 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 sixth in the WHL in rookie scoring with 10 goals and 17 assists for 27 points. He is nine points behind Peyton Krebs of Kootenay and Dylan Cozens of Lethbridge who are tied for first. th
Tyszka Tallying…Defenseman Jarret Tyszka has three goals and 12 assists in the last 14 games. He is tied for 16 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 he has played. Sami Lighting The Lamp…Sami Moilanen has six goals and five assists in the last 16 games he has played. Moilanen is fifth on team in scoring with 17 goals and 12 assists for 29 points in 33 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 10 assists in the last 12 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 th 5 1 Tyszka (2017, Montreal) FA Tryouts 4 Ottenbreit (2017, Ducks), Strand (2017, Edmonton), Volcan (2017, Pitt.), Moilanen (2017, Col.) HOW ACQUIRED Round # Player (year) st 1 2 Tyszka (14), Lee (16) nd 2 3 Volcan (13), Wedman (14), Stankowski (15) th 6 3 Hamaliuk (15-111th), Carpendale (15-125th), Terretta (16) th 8 2 Neuls (12), Harsch (14) th 10 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 3-2-0-1 1-1-0-1 2-1-0-0 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 21-16-4-2 10-8-1-1 11-8-3-1 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 7-5 13-8-2-0 7-8-2-2 9-4-2-0 1-10-1-1 11-3-1-1 10-2-2-0 4-11-2-0 7-2-0-2 1-4 2-2 8-7-2-1 13-9-2-1 0-0-0-0 6-7-1-0 9-6-2-2 15-13-3-2 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 3 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 21 16 4 2
Wednesday, January 17
Previous Game…The T-Birds defeated the Cougars 5-2 Tuesday at CN Centre. Donovan Neuls had two goals and Nolan Volcan, Austin Strand and Blake Bargar each had a goal. Dorrin Luding had 28 saves to get the win. Max Kryski and Jackson Leppard had goals for the Cougars. Tavin Grant had 29 saves. Winning Ways…The T-Birds have points in 10 of their last 12 games with a 8-2-1-1 record. The T-Birds have outscored opponents 57-42 in the last 12 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 three-game point streak with three goals and four assists in the last three games…Turner Ottenbreit has a three-game assist streak…Donovan Neuls has a two-game goal streak with three goals and an assist in the last two games. 11 With 20 Or More…11 T-Birds have 20 or more points this season. They are Donovan Neuls (16-31-47), Nolan Volcan (19-26-45), Zack Andrusiak (18-23-41), Austin Strand (15-26-41), Sami Moilanen (17-12-29), Jarret Tyszka (6-23-29), Noah Philp (8-19-27), Turner Ottenbreit (5-22-27), Dillon Hamaliuk (10-17-27), Matthew Wedman (7-1522), and Reece Harsch (9-12-21). Third On The PK…The T-Birds are third in the WHL on the penalty kill. They have an 80% penalty kill rate having given up 37 goals on 185 shorthanded chances. Eighth On The Power Play…The T-Birds are eighth in the WHL on the power play. They have a 23.5% conversion rate with 40 goals on 170 chances. Donnie On The Mark…Donovan Neuls has 16 goals and 31 assists for 47 points in 43 games this season and is first on the team in scoring. Neuls has seven goals and six assists in the last seven games, which includes three two-goal games. Neuls has 51 goals and 100 assists for 151 points in 255 career games with the T-Birds. His 47 points this season are a career high.
Volcan Point Watch…Nolan Volcan has 19 goals and 26 assists for 45 points in 43 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 13 goals and 15 assists in the last 25 games. He has passed his career high for points in a season and has played 236 career games and has 60 goals and 82 assists for 141 points. Zack Attack…Zack Andrusiak has four goals and 15 assists in the last 15 games and 10 goals and 16 assists in the last 22 games and is tied for third on the team in scoring with Austin Strand. Andrusiak has 18 goals and 23 assists for 41 points in 43 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 tied for third on the team in scoring with Zack Andrusiak. He has 15 goals and 26 assists for 41 points in 40 games. 10 of Strand’s 15 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 five goals and six assists in the last 11 games. Strand is tied for eighth in the WHL in scoring by defenseman with Dennis Cholowski of Portland and is 10 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 13 assists in the last 13 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 sixth in the WHL in rookie scoring with 10 goals and 17 assists for 27 points. He is nine points behind Peyton Krebs of Kootenay and Dylan Cozens of Lethbridge who are tied for first. th
Tyszka Tallying…Defenseman Jarret Tyszka has three goals and 12 assists in the last 14 games. He is tied for 16 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 he has played. Sami Lighting The Lamp…Sami Moilanen has six goals and five assists in the last 16 games he has played. Moilanen is fifth on team in scoring with 17 goals and 12 assists for 29 points in 33 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 10 assists in the last 12 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 th 5 1 Tyszka (2017, Montreal) FA Tryouts 4 Ottenbreit (2017, Ducks), Strand (2017, Edmonton), Volcan (2017, Pitt.), Moilanen (2017, Col.) HOW ACQUIRED Round # Player (year) st 1 2 Tyszka (14), Lee (16) nd 2 3 Volcan (13), Wedman (14), Stankowski (15) th 6 3 Hamaliuk (15-111th), Carpendale (15-125th), Terretta (16) th 8 2 Neuls (12), Harsch (14) th 10 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 3-2-0-1 1-1-0-1 2-1-0-0 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 21-16-4-2 10-8-1-1 11-8-3-1 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 7-5 13-8-2-0 7-8-2-2 9-4-2-0 1-10-1-1 11-3-1-1 10-2-2-0 4-11-2-0 7-2-0-2 1-4 2-2 8-7-2-1 13-9-2-1 0-0-0-0 6-7-1-0 9-6-2-2 15-13-3-2 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 3 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 21 16 4 2
