CHIEFS GAMERS

Before Friday’s game against the Seattle Thunderbirds, the Spokane Chiefs organization honored the three 20-year-olds on the roster – Shea Van Olm, Rasmus Ekström and Brayden Crampton – and the team’s award winners in their final regular season home game at the Arena.

After Saturday’s win, Spokane Chiefs coach Brad Lauer said, “Every team we’re playing right now is a playoff contender for us.”

In the grand scheme of things, the Spokane Chiefs don’t have much to play for as the regular season winds down – they entered play Saturday night all but locked into the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference with four games to play.

When the Spokane Chiefs routed the Everett Silvertips 10-3 on the road on Feb. 1, they reduced their deficit from 15 to 13 points behind the U.S. and Western Conference Division leaders. Since then, the Chiefs have continued to chip away at Everett's advantage.

From staff reports

VICTORIA, B.C. – The Spokane Chiefs wasted little time getting rolling on Friday night. Once they got started, there was little stopping them.

The Spokane Chiefs have lots of ways to beat a team, and they put many of those on display before a sold-out crowd of 10,237 at the Arena on Friday.

At times Wednesday night, the Spokane Chiefs looked like a team poised to make a long run in the Western Hockey League playoffs. At others, though, it was as if they were still learning each other's names.

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Spokane Chiefs scored three unanswered goals in the third period and beat the Portland Winterhawks 7-3 in the final regular -season matchup between the Western Hockey League U.S. Division rivals at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Sunday.

KENNEWICK – Terrell Goldsmith scored an insurance goal late in the second period, and the Tri-City Americans held off the Spokane Chiefs 4-2 at Toyota Center in a Western Hockey League game on Saturday.

The Spokane Chiefs scored a lot of goals Friday, and usually that’s a good thing.