The Everett Silvertips were driving on flat tires on Friday night against the Portland Winterhawks. Portland exploded for eight goals on the evening, winning 8-2 in Game 1 of the WHL semifinals at Veterans Memorial Coliseum and taking a 1-0 series lead. Game 2 is set...

The anticipation for this Round 2 series, set to begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, has been building all season long. The No. 3 seed Everett Silvertips know they have a tough task to get past the No. 2 seed Portland Winterhawks in a matchup between bitter rivals that were...

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That one was a little harder than the 5-0 score indicated for the Seattle Kraken, who were buoyed (no mascot-related pun intended) by an outstanding night from netminder Philipp Grubauer and rolled past the Arizona Coyotes.  Grubi stopped all 39 of Arizona’s offerings...

Round 1 is done for the Everett Silvertips, who grinded out a 4-1 series win over the Vancouver Giants. Despite the efforts of Giants goalie Brett Mirwald to keep the Silvertips at bay, relentless pressure from Everett created the momentum they needed after they...

Sadly for the Seattle Kraken, their win in Anaheim on Friday marked the last time they will play the Ducks this season. Seattle went 4-0-0 against Anaheim and put a cherry on top of that sundae with a 3-1 victory that featured two goals and three points for top...

With the Seattle Kraken loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night, and the Kings defeating the San Jose Sharks on Thursday, the Kraken have officially been eliminated from the playoffs. If the Kraken were to win out the rest of the season, they would top out at...

Everett Silvertips fans, as well as hockey fans in the Pacific Northwest in general, should become acquainted with the name Landon DuPont.  The Everett Silvertips won the Western Hockey League prospects draft lottery last Wednesday and will pick No. 1 overall in...

Imagine being a 21-year-old hockey player, battling it out in the American Hockey League, and you get called up to the NHL for the first time in your career. Now, imagine you get that news you’ve been dreaming of your entire life, and you also find out that one of...

If the Kraken were going to win that one against the Dallas Stars, it would have had to happen in a rope-a-dope, frustrate-the-pants-off-them kind of way. That’s an even better club than the one that knocked Seattle out in Game 7 of the second round of the Stanley Cup...

Here. We. Go. The 2024 WHL Playoffs, the best time of year for fans of junior hockey, is finally upon us, with games beginning Friday night. The barns throughout the WHL will come alive and fill with some of the most passionate fans in not just junior hockey, but...

Hey, as long as the Seattle Kraken play the Anaheim Ducks every game, they’ll be just fine. Unfortunately, that’s not how NHL scheduling works, so they do still have to face other teams, but this two-game sweep by Seattle offered a nice respite from the losing that we...