Cossa earns shutout in Oil Kings’ 4-0 win over Thunderbirds in Game 3 of WHL championship series – Edmonton
The Seattle Thunderbirds had been unable to get a puck previous Oil Kings goaltender Sebastian Cossa in Recreation 3 of the WHL championship sequence Tuesday evening as Edmonton earned a 4-0 win.
The highway victory noticed the Oil Kings take a 2-1 sequence lead after splitting the primary two video games at dwelling.
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Cossa stopped all 21 pictures he confronted whereas Seattle goaltender Thomas Milic turned apart 33 of the 36 pictures he confronted earlier than being pulled for an additional attacker late within the sport.
Ahead Jakub Demek opened the scoring for the Oil Kings on the 17:02 mark of the second interval. He carried the puck from his personal zone, minimize in entrance of a Thunderbirds defender behind Seattle’s blue line and went from his backhand to his forehand earlier than burying the puck within the internet.
Edmonton defenceman Simon Kubicek scored on the facility play 4:10 into the third interval. Teammate and fellow blue-liner Kaiden Guhle added one other purpose 11:47 into the third whereas ahead Carter Souch scored an empty-net purpose with 41 seconds left within the sport.
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Oil Kings ahead Justin Sourdif had an help and was plus-two in the course of the sport whereas additionally dominating within the faceoff circle, successful 14 of 20 attracts. He was named the sport’s first star, Cossa was named the second star and Souch was named the third star.
The sequence resumes in Washington on Wednesday evening for Recreation 4.
