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🎖️ Postseason team awards presentation

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IN A NUTSHELL:

Wenatchee puts a bow on its home season by welcoming the CHL’s top team.

 

THE SCENE-SETTER:

The defensive efforts of the Wenatchee Wild and Prince George Cougars dominated the storyline for 40 minutes of last Saturday’s game at CN Centre, but the Cougars took over the narrative with four second-period goals in a 5-0 win. The first two goals came on the power play – Kooper Gizowski banged in a second-chance marker 2:46 into the game, 27 seconds into the Cougars’ first power play of the night. With 81 seconds off the time in the second period and three seconds remaining on Prince George’s second power play, Bauer Dumanski lit the lamp to double the lead. Dmitri Yakutsenak scored the first 5-on-5 goal of the night at 5:38, and Carson Carels scored with 7:31 to go in the second, after setting up Prince George’s two power play goals. Carels found Terik Parascak for a shorthanded goal with under 20 seconds to go in the second period, as Parascak dribbled the puck down the ice and slipped a chance past Cal Conway for the five-goal advantage. Mark Djomo stepped onto the ice for the third period and stopped all 12 Cougar shots he saw. Prince George finished 5-for-7 on special teams, including a 2-for-4 night on the power play – Carels ended the night with a goal and three assists to lead all scorers, and Alexander Levshyn wrapped up with 25 saves for his first WHL shutout.

 

KNOW YOUR FOE:

The Wild close their home schedule with the circuit’s hottest club, taking on an Everett Silvertips team with 11 straight wins under its belt. Down 2-1 after two periods, the Silvertips charged to a 5-2 win Tuesday in Victoria – Zackary Shantz scored just two minutes into the game and took Everett to the break up 1-0, but Caleb Matthews scored 4:33 into the second to tie the game, and Nolan Stewart’s power play goal with 5:20 left put the Royals in the lead at the second intermission. Julius Miettinen’s power play goal at 3:08 tied the game at 2-2, and Rhys Jamieson and Matias Vanhanen scored two minutes apart to push the ‘Tips into the lead for good before Vanhanen’s empty-netter with 2:24 left sealed the win. Rylan Gould picked up three assists to lead all scorers, and Anders Miller turned away 27 of 29 Victoria shots as Everett finished 5-for-6 on special teams. An 8-5 win at Portland last Sunday was the club’s 55^th of the season, sealing a franchise record for victories, but WHL history is on the line this weekend – one point would push Everett past the league record for a 68-game season, while wins in both games would eclipse the 68-game wins record. Both marks were set by the Winnipeg ICE, who finished 57-10-1-0 during the 2022-23 campaign.

 

TOLL AT THE TOP:

Josh Toll is poised to wrap up his first WHL season as the team’s scoring leader, the first time in the club’s 30-year WHL history that a defenseman has finished as the team’s leading scorer. He enters this game with an 11-point lead in the race for the Wenatchee scoring title – Toll and Prince Albert defenseman Daxon Rudolph are the only WHL blueliners to lead their teams in scoring. Toll’s 49 assists are the most for the Wild since current Quinnipiac blueliner Graham Sward cranked out 66 helpers in 2023-24, while Kenta Isogai put up 57 of his own. Toll has six three-point games with the Wild, including five games with three assists.

 

DYNAMIC DUO:

Though both are out of the lineup due to injuries, Cal Conway remains at a .901 save percentage for the season and Tobias Tvrznik sits at .913, making Wenatchee one of only two WHL teams with more than one qualifying goalie at .900 or above. Penticton is the other, with Andrew Reyelts and Ethan McCallum sitting at .905 and .904 respectively.

 

‘TIL WE MEET AGAIN:

Tonight’s game marks the final home contest for Wenatchee’s two 20-year-old players as they age out of the junior game – Sam Elliott spent the full 2025-26 season with the Wild after playing his last two years with the BCHL’s Surrey Eagles. Riley Bassen came to the Valley after a half-season with Merrimack College in which he did not see game action – he previously played three years in the United States Hockey League for the Fargo Force and the Cedar Rapids Roughriders. The two enter the final week neck-and-neck as the team’s top faceoff artists, at 48.8 percent apiece.