February 15, 2026 – Teacher Appreciation

🪮 GESA CRAZY WIG GIVEAWAY – First 1,000 fans

🏫 Da$h 4 Ca$h – 10 area teachers will dash on the ice at first intermission for their share of $5,000 for their schools!

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SUNDAY FUNDAY

 

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IN A NUTSHELL:

Wenatchee ends the season series against Spokane, with a chance to clinch a split.

 

THE SCENE-SETTER:

The Wild dug deep Saturday evening to grab another close win at Numerica Veterans Arena, getting two assists from Gabriel Guilbault and outlasting the Spokane Chiefs, 3-2. Spokane posted the game’s first five shots and 10 of its first 12, and took the lead with nine minutes left in the first period, when Coco Armstrong poked a chance off of Cal Conway and in. With under three minutes to go, though, Levi Benson evened the game by collecting a rebound after Josh Toll’s point shot and sliding it by Linus Vieillard – Mason Kraft batted a chance out of midair to take the lead with 8:44 left in the second, and Alex Andre turned and tossed the puck through Vieillard with 26.7 seconds remaining in the period for a 3-1 lead at the break. Chase Harrington scored at the eight-minute mark of the third to narrow the lead, but the Chiefs never completed their comeback bid. Guilbault’s multi-point game was the second in his WHL career, while Andre’s goal was his second and stood up as the game-winner. Conway turned aside 33 shots for his sixth win, and the penalty-killing units combined to go a perfect 6-for-6.

 

KNOW YOUR FOE:

Spokane erased an early three-goal Portland lead in the Rose City on Friday, potting five in a row before the Winterhawks tightened things up in a 5-4 Chiefs victory. Jordan Duguay, Max Psenicka and Nathan Free opened the scoring for Portland in the opening 7:28, but Spokane answered with markers from Rhett Sather, Sam Oremba and Nathan Mayes to even the game going to the second. The Chiefs hopped into the lead on Chase Harrington’s goal at 8:27 of the second period, and Harry Mattern scored at 4:34 of the third to give Spokane a two-goal lead. Nathan Brown’s power play tally at 11:48 cut the Spokane advantage to one, but Portland never fully erased the Chiefs’ lead. However, the Winterhawks did finish a perfect 4-for-4 on special teams, going 2-for-2 on the power play and killing both of Spokane’s power plays. Harrington posted two assists on top of his goal, and Carter Esler wiped away 25 of Portland’s 29 shots to earn the win. The Chiefs power play is slowly finding traction, but its 11.8-percent mark remains far and away the lowest of any WHL club. They have alternated wins and losses each of their last six games.

PLAYOFF PICTURE:

Wenatchee got some help from the Penticton Vees with a win over the Kelowna Rockets on Saturday, but Seattle’s win over Tri-City did the Wild no favors – the win pushed Wenatchee to within six points of a final playoff spot in the Western Conference standings. The sixth through ninth spots are extraordinarily close, with the four teams separated by just three points.

 

POWER UP:

Wenatchee’s three power play goals Friday against Kelowna not only tied a high-water mark for the team this season, it marked only the third time this year that the Wild have posted a power play goal in back-to-back-to-back games (the longest stretch is five games, from November 29 to December 7).

 

MAKING A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION:

Josh Toll posted three points in Friday’s win over Kelowna, his ninth multi-point game of the season – he became the first Wenatchee player to reach the 40-point plateau this season, and his assist Saturday at Spokane built his scoring lead to seven points over Luka Shcherbyna and the rest of the field. He is the only Western Hockey League blueliner to lead his team in scoring, and is still holding off Calgary’s Ben MacBeath as the WHL’s highest-scoring rookie defenseman.