The Tri-City Americans had a rough night at the office Friday night. The Americans were shut out at home 3-0 by Kamloops and lost their first home game of the season in regulation. Clayton Gillmore made his WHL debut for the Tri-City Americans. Dylan Ernst also picked up his first shutout of the season. Lukas Matecha was the only bright spot for Tri-City, stopping 33 of 36 shots.
The first period of action went reasonably quickly, as the 3900 fans at the Toyota Center were waiting for any ounce of action to occur. That would have to wait another period, however. On his first career shift, Clayton Gillmore got a two-minute boarding penalty.
Shots after one period of play favored Kamloops, 11 to 9.
From the start of the second period, it was all Kamloops. Kamloops got their first goal of the evening six minutes into the second period. Samuel Borschowa pinched in from the right point, and Josh Kelly from the trap found him for a one-time blast. That was Borschowa’s first career goal and first point of the season.
Kamloops would double their lead two minutes later after Logan Bairos fired a harmless wrister towards the net from outside of the right faceoff circle, where it was tipped by Matteo Koci to double the Blazer lead. That was Koci’s first career WHL Goal as well.
Shots after two periods of action were 23-20 in favor of Kamloops.
Any chance Tri-City had, they seemed to have wasted. Nathan Behm got a high-sticking penalty twelve minutes into the third period. However, Tri-City failed to establish themselves in the Kamloops zone once and did not even record a shot on goal.
Shea Van Olm of the Kamloops Blazers would send some paratroopers out of the airplane early after cleaning up the garbage and going five hole on Lukas Matecha to make it 3-0 Kamloops with only five minutes left in the game.
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