PORTLAND, Ore. – Rasmus Ekström scored three goals – the last to tie the game in the third period – but it wasn't enough, as the visiting Spokane Chiefs fell to the Portland Winterhawks 6-4 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday.
Chase Harrington scored two goals, including one of two shorthanded markers of the game, and the Spokane Chiefs beat the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-1 in a Western Hockey League game on Sunday at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash.
The annual Teddy Bear Toss game is a highlight of the schedule, and with a hot team and a packed house, expectations were high Saturday night at the Arena.
Former Spokane Chiefs assistant coach Scott Burt has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and has taken a medical leave of absence from his duties as head coach and general manager of the Rapid City (South Dakota) Rush minor league pro hockey club.
The Spokane Chiefs were looking at back-to-back home games against the Portland Winterhawks as “must-win” games, with the visitors at the end of four games in five nights, and the Chiefs looking at six of nine games on the road against the U.S. Division in December.
The Spokane Chiefs are on a roll. And with a bunch of road games within the division on the horizon to end the calendar year, every win salted away at home takes on higher significance.
Don't look now, but the Spokane Chiefs are playing some of their best hockey of the season. And they didn't even need a pair of goals that were waived off to notch their fourth win in a row.
