December 5, 2009 in Sports

Chiefs capitalize, drive past T-Birds

Rookie’s first goal a winner

Dave Trimmer The Spokesman-Review

In second-period action, Spokane’s Stefan Ulmer makes sure Seattle’s Sena Acolatse isn’t going anywhere.colinm@spokesman.com
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Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.

And it took a big dose of luck for the Spokane Chiefs to make 5,936 fans happy with a 4-2 win over the Seattle Thunderbirds at the Arena on Friday night.

Calvin Pickard, Seattle’s fine young goalie, mishandled the puck behind his net and Steve Kuhn pounced on it to feed Dominik Uher for the winner with 3:33 to play.

“End of the game, tight game like that, both teams going hard, you never know. Mistakes are made,” Kuhn said after Uher, a 17-year-old rookie from Czech Republic, scored his first Western …

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