Blazers vs. Hawks - Game 21 · Saturday November 17, 2007

The Kamloops Blazers scored early in the third period and it was enough to defeat the Portland Winter Hawks 4-2. This is the third game in the Hawks/Blazers series with the Blazers winning all three.

The new guys Jacob Dietrich, Travis Ehrhardt, Ryan Kerr, Keith Voytechek, and Jason Grecica made a good impression and the Hawks looked like a more balanced cohesive team. Erhardt showed good skating ability and a take charge confidence that the back-line has not demonstrated to this point.

Dietrich’s goal was impressive when he took the puck from the side board went straight to the goal and bounced the shot off of Priestner. This was a pure effort goal. Dietrich also showed some dangerous offensive moves with the ability to get his shot off around the net.

This was also the Home debut of Riley Boychuk. Boychuk is big forward that moves well. He made an outstanding outlet pass to Schmemund to set up the first goal of the game.

Kurtis Mucha stopped 28 of 31 shots on the night for Portland while Priestner stopped 32 of 34 Portland shots for his third victory against Portland this season.

Portland finished the night 0 for 5 on the power play, while Kamloops was 0 for 6.

Attendance: 7044
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 SCORING  1  2  3  Total 
Blazers  1  1  2  4
Hawks  1  1  0  2

SHOTS 1 2 3  Total 
Blazers 10 8 14 32
Hawks 11 16 7 34

Game Description
Game Summary

period 1

7:59 – Matt Schmermund (4) took a feed from Riley Boychuk behind the Kamloops defense and beat goaltender James Priestner high over the blocker. The assist for Boychuk was his first career WHL point.

11:40 – A back line PP turnover by Ehrhardt left Calla one-on-one with Mucha to tie the game.

period 2

14:03 – Jacob Dietrich (3) bounced a shot off of Priestner to take the lead 2-1.

11:40 – Kamloop’s Bartley (3) scored with 22 seconds in the period to tie the game 2-2.

period 3

1:32 Kamloops took the lead with a goal by Rodgers (5) from a redirected Ivan Rohác’s centering feed past Kurtis Mucha.

Portland couldn’t break through the Kamloops defense and at 19:13 Shattock (4) scored an empty net goal.

Kemper’s Three Stars

Calla (KAM), Priestner (KAM), Dietrich (POR)

Fight Card

Gabriel/Golin and Betker/Wray

Give the edge to Gabriel and Wray

— S. Blanchard

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