Game Day vs Victoria

In the words of Craig West (I don't know if he said it last night, but it's a famous Westy-ism)--it won't hang in the Lourve, but it'll work.  That was last night's game against Seattle.

Seattle is not a very good team, but they skate hard and they caused a lot of chaos in the neutral zone last night.  Things were sloppy all over the place so in that sense they had a pretty good game plan.

At one point I remember thinking, "I really like the hustle of Jesse Mychan."  He had another outstanding game.  The lines were being shuffled with Lil Mess, Malte Milkballs, and Captain Mason out.  Dallman got several shifts, Nickles a few, and I think I saw Lukas Walter take one or two.  So definitely a short bench.  I can't imagine tonight will be much different.

With his second empty net goal tonight, Justin Feser reached the 100-goal mark for his WHL career. He is now the 15th player to ever record 100 goals with Tri-City...By playing tonight, Adam Hughesman moved past Kruise Reddick (315) into 6th on Tri-City’s all-time games played list...With the win tonight, Tri-City has recorded 20+ home wins in six consecutive seasons...Tonight, Americans fans raised $21,260.77 during the annual fundraiser for the Tri-Cities Cancer Center Foundation. In the seven-year history of the pink ice event, Tri-City fans have now raised over $114,074. (Tri-City Americans)

"I thought Seattle played very well," Tri-City coach Jim Hiller said, "the best they have played here recently. Sometimes you get used to winning and scoring a lot of goals, but in the second half (of the season) there aren't as many goals and the games are tighter."

"I thought our penalty kill did a good job again," Hiller said. "We needed them."

"It feels good to get home and regroup," Mychan said of the Americans' first home game since going 1-1-1-0 on their last road trip. "We didn't get the wins we wanted. Tonight, we felt good. A long week of practice paid off. You enjoy it when you know you did it right." (Herald)

The Victoria Royals are in the building tonight, coming off a 6-5 loss to Spokane last night. Should be a good one. The boys are fighting injury, fatigue, last week they were battling the flue so I'm sure there's some left-over bits of that, just gotta come out and battle hard.