Numbers

3

Number of Adam Hughesman goals in last night's game,

7

Penalty minutes for Tyler Schmidt, including a 5 for fighting.  It was a fight he won hands down, haven't seen him pummel a guy like that in a while.

19

Power play opportunities for the teams, 9 chances for Everett, 10 for the Americans.

4

Number of power play goals, 2 for Everett, 2 for the Americans.

1

Number of diving penalties called on Everett.

7

Times the dreaded Venga Boys goal song came on (hey, I like the song).

31

Hughesman's goal tally for the season, nearly doubling his previous season high (18 last year).

5th

Place where Shinnimin sits in league scoring, with 12 fewer games than Linden Vey (1st in scoring).

Too many

The number of times Drew wandered from his crease to play the puck.  He needs to either not do that or be more vocal in communicating with the guys what he's doing because it makes me nervous.

0

Number of jerseys the Vancouver Giants had on the bus with them on their way to Kamloops last night, had to play in Blazers practice jerseys.  How does that even happen??

12

Number of points for Carter Ashton in 5 games with the Americans so far.

5

Number of goals for David Conrad this season, including one last night.  He has 15 points this season, which is more than double his previous season high (7 in 08-09 with Spokane).

11

Points scored by the line of Ashton-Shinnimin-Hughesman last night.

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Can't put a number on the work ethic and determination of Mason Wilgosh, every shift of every game.

1

Number of kids named Wiley who went home super ecstatic because he got the autographed stick from one of his favorite players.

3

Number of drunken idiots behind us, one of which literally fell out of his seat then later spilled beer all down sister's back.  I would love to have enough money to buy all the seats around us, JS.  People, if you want to get that drunk, go to a bar, don't ruin peoples' game experience.

"It means a lot, to be honest," Hughesman said of reaching the 30-goal plateau. "But I'm not satisfied with 31, and I know (Carter) Ashton and Shinny (Brendan Shinnimin) aren't satisfied, either. We want to keep pushing. That's what good teams do."

"We've just got to keep it simple," Hughesman said. "We got a little too fancy, but tonight we figured it out. We got to the net and banged a few in."

"You saw tonight that when they're moving, they're tough to contain," added Ams coach Jim Hiller. "There's a lot of different dynamics on that line. You've got the strength and power of Carter, Huey with his shot, and Shinny in the middle of things, making plays."

"I didn't feel comfortable until the final buzzer," Hiller said. "It was a bit of an odd game. I thought we'd put them to bed, but they kept coming back." (Examiner)

Back at it again tonight as the Kelowna Rockets are in town.  Rockets coming off a 5-3 over Spokane last night, hopefully the Chiefs wore them down real good.  Rockets have been up and down all season, going 5-5-0-0 in their last ten games, and overall playing .565 hockey.  That's good enough for them to be sitting in 5th in the Western Conference, 2nd in the BC Division.