By Adam Donnelly

Silvertips too much for Blazers once again, win 5-2 on Remembrance Day

Nov 11, 2018 | 7:15 PM

KAMLOOPS — Sunday night’s game was a triumphant return to the Sandman Centre for Kamloops kid Max Palaga, as his Everett Silvertips beat the Blazers for the second time in three nights, by a 5-2 score.

Kamloops found themselves trailing after the first period after Jalen Price got things going for Everett with his second goal of the year. Price had a tap-in after Gage Goncalves fired a perfect saucer pass cross-crease late in the opening frame.

The Blazers responded just 77 seconds into the second period, as Zane Franklin set-up Luc Smith for his 5th of the year. 4:40 after Kamloops tied it, Everett took the lead on Jake Christiansen’s fifth of the season.

Kamloops’ Kyrell Sopotyk received a double minor for high sticking just past the halfway point of the middle stanza, but it was the Blazers who scored with Sopotyk in the sin bin. Kobe Mohr stripped the Everett defender at the Blazers blue line and walked in all alone on Palaga who made the initial stop, but Nolan Kneen was there to bang home the rebound for the Blazers to knot the game up at two goals apiece.

Blazers starting netminder Dylan Ferguson left the game partway through the second period with a mysterious injury. Blazers Head Coach Serge Lavoie confirmed Ferguson has somehow cut his finger, but the cause of the injury wasn’t clear. Rayce Ramsay replaced Ferguson between the pipes for the second straight game.

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In the third period, it was all Everett. Connor Dewar scored the game-winner 4:59 into the 3rd, as he beat Ramsay from hash marks on a partial breakaway to put the ‘Tips up 3-2.

10 minutes later Jackson Berezowski scored his fourth of the year to put the ‘Tips up by two.

With Ramsay on the bench for the extra attacker, Wyatt Wylie sealed the victory for Everett as he scored the empty-netter with 1:53 left to play.

The win was Everett’s 14th of the season, and first by a goaltender not named Dustin Wolf. The loss was the Blazers fourth in a row.

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