Seattle vs Portland (Season long thread)
 

Seattle rides the back of Bryan Bridges to a shutout victory for the second night in a row, 2-0. Bridges made 39 saves, 21 in the 3rd period. Goal scorers were Gagnon from Gibbons and Metcalfe and Couture (EN/PP) from Metcalfe.

Seattle, through 12 periods, has given up 2 goals while scoring 11. They are 3-1-0-0 in 4 games, all on the road.

Next game: Tue @ Kootenay who had their 11 period shutout streak snapped tonight in Spokane.

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Any scouting reports for us? I'd like to hear more about Scurko and Farmanara (I saw them myself, but thats just one game)

To be honest, I wasn't at that game but I will be at the rematch Saturday night and will be happy to provide some reports after that.

farmanara is a great skater...fast...good with the stick and puck..his weakness last year was stamina...but as a rookie, I would have expected that last year

I haven't seen him play a game yet this season..just saw him at training camp..but he was one I picked out to watch last year

this year's rookie to watch is fadden..followed by mcewan

in my opinion anyway

Thanks for the update!!

McEwan is a beauty. On the ice the kid will fight anyone, anywhere. Had like 500 PIM's in the KIJHL last year.

Tonight in Seattle, the T-Birds got a 4-2 win over Portland, scoring all 4 goals in the first 12 minutes of the game on 9 shots.

Fadden, one of our rookies, had his first 2 WHL goals and also scored an assist. Scurko, another rookie, had an assist on the GW PP goal.

The Hawks Robin Big Snake got a 5 and a game at 14:12 of the first for dropping the gloves and assailing a non-willing competitor.

Final Stats:

SOG
Seattle 9 14 4 27
Portland 9 5 21 35

Saves
Bridges SEA 33
Butler POR 23

Scoring summary:
1SEA Fadden, (1) (Farmanara, Holloway), 02:07
1SEA Scurko, (1) (Fadden, Couture), 02:40
1SEA Gagnon, (3) (Scurko, Metcalfe), 05:37 (PP)
1SEA Fadden, (2) , 11:56 (PP)
1POR Coburn, (2) (May, Woolger), 13:21
3 POR Aldred, (1) (Mikkelson, Bailey), 17:23 (PP)(Goalie Pulled)

PP:
SEA 2/6
POR 1/6

Three Stars:
Fadden
Coutoure
Bridges (all SEA)

McEwan has hockey skills too though...he's not just a goon...I think he'll develop into a decent physical player

regarding last night's game against portland...never in my life have I seen linesmen so determined to NOT have a single fight...and they pretty much succeeded
when big snake jumped farmanara, that linesman almost threw him against the boards he was so physical with him...it was kinda cool to see

would have been nice if they'd let a fight or two or three develop..but, then again, it might have ended up a line brawl

kudos to the linesmen for keeping control of the game like they did

Nice to see Gagnon drop in another goal. :yo:

I'm guessing they wanted to keep control with it being our home opener, against Portland, RBS's first game back, etc. The linesmen did a great job. Herman on the other hand...

oh yeah...absolutely...if they had let even one real fight go...they would have lost control...they really did a good job

yeah...then there's herman....sigh

My journal entry about last nights game

Also if you are on the Network54 boards, I am KeyArenaRat and on the OregonLive board, TBirdLurker.

I'm Buannan over there too

I'm Buannan everywhere

:)

I would be but I like having different names everywhere. Makes it hard for people to follow me. I have some I never tell so no one ever knows. More fun that way, especially on the Portland board. :joker:

Played hard for 44 minutes. Luckily those 4 minutes were the last 4 to get the game winner. Final score 3-2 Seattle. Season series 3-0. So far so good. :banana:

Gagnon continues his goal scoring streak now at 4 games.