Chiefs snap home-ice drought
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 14 years, 8 months AGO
Spokane can advance to 2nd round with victory Saturday
SPOKANE - Spokane left wing Marek Kalus scored on his first shift of the playoffs as the Chiefs snapped a six-game home-ice losing streak in the postseason with a 4-2 win over the Chilliwack Bruins to take a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven series in front of 5,016 at the Spokane Arena on Thursday night.
Kalus scored 2:40 into the game to give Spokane the 1-0 lead. Brenden Kichton and Mike Aviani added goals as the Chiefs took a 3-0 lead after the first.
Chilliwack scored midway through the second period and got another goal from Roman Horak in the third to cut the Spokane lead to 3-2.
Steve Kuhn capped the scoring for Spokane with an empty-net goal with 49 seconds remaining.
Spokane outshot Chilliwack 39-21, including a 21-4 advantage after the first.
The Chiefs can advance to the second round of the Western Hockey League playoffs vs. Tri-City with a win in Game 5 on Saturday night at the Arena.