The Seattle Thunderbirds will play in the Memorial Cup final for the first time in team history after beating the Peterborough Petes 4-1 on Friday night to advance to the championship game on Sunday. FOX13
The Thunderbirds will face the Québec Remparts, who are the champions of the Québec Major Junior Hockey League.
Seattle unleashed an onslaught against Peterborough goaltender Michael Simpson with 46 shots on net. Simpson valiantly held strong for the first 35 minutes of the game before the Thunderbirds finally managed to breakthrough. A dominant third period effort then put the game away. Ciona had another chance from between the circles three minutes in that was the most dangerous look of them all. Avery Hayes sent the puck over the glass for a delay of game penalty as Peterborough tried to relieve the pressure only to allow a power play chance instead.
Eventually, the Thunderbirds finally broke through on their 31st shot of the night. A Myatovic shot deflected off Reid Schaefer in front of the net and deflected to a closing Lambert on the backside of the net. Lambert's backhand chance deflected off Simpson and slipped through his frame into the net for the 1-0 Seattle lead.
Crnkovic delivered a perfect pass to a driving Colton Dach as he slammed the puck into an open net with Simpson caught vulnerable as Seattle took a 2-0 lead just 1:28 into the third period. Crnkovic then scored his fifth goal of the tournament for Seattle to extend the lead. A bouncing puck led to Simpson going down on his read with the puck nearly in his lap. Crnkovic managed to chip the puck through Simpson and it just crossed the goal line before being raked out by Simpson's glove, but it was enough for a 3-1 Seattle lead.
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