Raiders comeback falls short, series returning home tied

After 1: Raiders 0 – 3 Silvertips, shots 15-11 Silvertips

Early in the second, the Raiders got their first powerplay of the game, and they capitalized. Braeden Cootes skated down to the right corner before dropping the puck back to Daxon Rudolph, and he followed the same path to the corner. Rudolph sent a pass to the slot intended for Max Heise, but he let it go by him instead for Brock Cripps at the left point, and he onetimed it for hist fourth of the playoffs at 4:24.

From there, the period was clearly in control for the Raiders. They had two powerplays in the period, but Anders Miller made some great saves and the Raiders failed to capitalize on a couple of chances of their own.

At the 19:14 mark however, the Silvertips scored a momentum killer. From the right side, again it was Miettinen who set up the goal with a shot. This time it was a onetimer from the right side, and the puck bounced off the pad for Carter Bear on the other side who scored his second of the night on the rebound.

After 2: Raiders 2 – 4 Silvertips, shots 15-9 Raiders, 26-24 Raiders overall

The Raiders came out hard in the third period, but the Silvertips were able to hold them at bay. After a Silvertips powerplay in the first half of the period started to tilt momentum back in the Silvertips favour, then play was reduced to 4-on-4, and during that time a shot squeaked past Michal Orsulak, but he laid back, swatted the puck off the goal line with his glove, and the puck was cleared.

At the 9:46 mark, the Raiders defence scored again Maddix McCagherty started the play but didn’t earn an assist when he battled a puck loose in the offensive zone, then sent it over to Aiden Oiring in the corner. Oiring sent it back to the right side of the blueline for Daxon Rudolph, and he quickly passed it across for a Justice Christensen onetimer into the back of the net for his third of the playoffs.

The Raiders would get Orsulak pulled and try to go on the attack, but after a couple of shots and faceoffs in the offensive zone for the Raiders, eventually the Silvertips got the puck over their own blueline and Julius Miettinen scored his first goal and fourth point of the night at the 18:58. During the goal celebration, Daxon Rudolph threw a cross check that earned him a five minute major.

The Silvertips got one more powerplay to finish the game, and at 19:59 Jesse Heslop was able to score with a onetimer down at the bottom of the right circle.

FINAL: Raiders 2 – 6 Silvertips, shots 14-13 Silvertips, 39-38 Raiders overall

The Silvertips have now tied the series after the first two games in Everett. The Raiders will spend the next three games back at the Art Hauser Centre.

by Nick Nielsen

Raiders comeback falls short, series returning home tied

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