Anyone who watched WHL Western Conference final series opener on Friday knew the Portland Winterhawks were a powderkeg about to explode.
Diego Buttazzoni and Marcus Nguyen, into an empty net, put the game out of reach for Prince George. Cougars winger Oren Shtrom scored with 6.6 seconds left. “They’re a good hockey team and we knew they were going to come out today, they’re down 1-0 and they didn’t want to go down 2-0. We just didn’t react to it. We had some power plays and we had some looks that we didn’t score on, it was just one of those games, we couldn’t get anything going. We need more from some people in playoffs. We just have to regroup and play like we can.”
“We liked our gameplan a lot, we’re doing a good job, they haven’t scored and we were getting a lot of good looks and we thought, stick with it and see if we can capitalize on a big goal.” The Winterhawks won the ensuing face-off and gained the zone right away and Jack O’Brien spun and fired from close range to score his eighth off the playoffs, 11:24 into the period.
“Prince George is really good at building off momentum,” said Chyzowski. “They did a really good job feeding off their crowd and feeding off their power plays in the second period, so we did a good job to be a little bit desperate and find a way to get out of that period and bounce back in the third.
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