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The road to the 2022 Memorial Cup tournament continues as the Edmonton Oil Kings look to wrap up the Western Hockey League Final against the Seattle ...

The game can be seen LIVE on TSN4, the TSN App and TSN Direct at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The road to the 2022 Memorial Cup tournament continues as the Edmonton Oil Kings look to wrap up the Western Hockey League Final against the Seattle Thunderbirds. The game can be seen LIVE on TSN4, the TSN App and TSN Direct at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The road to the 2022 Memorial Cup tournament continues as the Edmonton Oil Kings look to wrap up the Western Hockey League Final against the Seattle Thunderbirds.

The Oil Kings got off to a quick start, but the Thunderbirds roared back with three unanswered goals and hung on to win 3-2.

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The Seattle Thunderbirds have proven a tough team to kill off throughout the WHL playoffs and facing elimination in the final against the Edmonton Oil ...

Ciona put the Thunderbirds up 3-1 at 2:21 of the third period. “We’re just too slow, there is no motion with it, we’re just very stagnant right now,” Lauer said. The Oil Kings had their chances to tie the game in the period, but suddenly their power play has gone cold. The six-foot-nine, sixth-round pick of the New York Rangers took a pass from Reid Schaefer in the high slot and wired a shot over the blocker of Cossa. “A big theme for us this year is been resiliency,” Milic said. The save proved to be big as Roulette tied the game just over two minutes into the second period. Luypen went in on a shorthanded breakaway, but was unable to slide the puck between Milic’s pads. Williams opened the scoring 6:25 into the first period to give the Oil Kings a 1-0 lead. “We’re a resilient group, we’ve been in this situation before,” said Thunderbirds head coach Matt O’Dette. “We can draw on that experience. If necessary, Game 7 will be at Rogers Place on Tuesday. But I liked our third period we had a lot of pushback in the third period, but we just ran out of time.” Article content

Guenther was injured in Game 3 of the best-of-seven series against the Seattle Thunderbirds when he took a hit along the boards from Lukas Svejkovsky early ...

“I’m Just building that aspect of my game has been really important for me as well and when the offence comes it’s nice.” The Oil Kings had blown a 4-2 third-period lead, but after the hit Kuny went on to score the winner to pull out the 5-4 victory. “I think it’s happened to us all year,” said Oil Kings forward Justin Williams. “We’ve had guys out, we’ve had guys away at the world juniors and it’s always that next-man-up mentality. Guenther has 13 goals and 21 points for the Oil Kings in 16 playoff games. Bauer was assessed a five-minute major for interference and later suspended by the league for two games. Guenther left the game and has not played since.

The Seattle Thunderbirds are no strangers to erasing series deficits in the Western Hockey League playoffs this year. And they're doing their best to make ...

And they're doing their best to make the Edmonton Oil Kings nervous. The winner of this series will represent the WHL in the 102nd Memorial Cup which goes June 20-29 in Saint John, N.B. The Seattle Thunderbirds are no strangers to erasing series deficits in the Western Hockey League playoffs this year.

The T-birds took the lead for good on a second-period power-play goal by Matthew Rempe in an eventual 3-2 victory over the Oil Kings, who lead the series ...

Edmonton native Lucas Ciona slammed home a rebound 2:21 into the third period to provide the Thunderbirds needed insurance. The Oil Kings had chances to extend their lead that period but T-birds goalie Thomas Milic came up huge, including his foiling of a short-handed breakaway chance midway through. “No panic from our group, we’ve been in this situation before,” Thunderbirds coach Matt O’Dette said after his team’s eighth playoff road win enabled it to improve to 6-0 when facing elimination this postseason.

The Oil Kings were prepped for a celebration, leading the WHL Final best-of-seven series 3-1 against the Thunderbirds heading into Game 5 at Rogers Place ...

He carried the puck across the Thunderbirds line, dropped the puck to Simon Kubicek and headed to the net. Ciona put the Thunderbirds up 3-1 at 2:21 of the third period. “We’re just too slow, there is no motion with it, we’re just very stagnant right now,” Lauer said. The Oil Kings had their chances to tie the game in the period, but suddenly their power play has gone cold. “It was a power play regroup and Schaefs made an unreal play to cut through,” Rempe said. The six-foot-nine, sixth-round pick of the New York Rangers took a pass from Reid Schaefer in the high slot and wired a shot over the blocker of Cossa. “A big theme for us this year is been resiliency,” Milic said. The save proved to be big as Roulette tied the game just over two minutes into the second period. Luypen went in on a shorthanded breakaway, but was unable to slide the puck between Milic’s pads. Williams opened the scoring 6:25 into the first period to give the Oil Kings a 1-0 lead. “We’re a resilient group, we’ve been in this situation before,” said Thunderbirds head coach Matt O’Dette. “We can draw on that experience. But I liked our third period we had a lot of pushback in the third period, but we just ran out of time.”