SPOKANE - Adam Helewka scored his 44th goal of the year with 15 seconds remaining, but the Spokane Chiefs came up short in a 5-4 loss to the Everett Silvertips in the Western Hockey League regular season finale for both teams on Sunday in front of 6,110 at the Spokane Arena.

Spokane (34-33-3-2) has now lost five straight games and fell behind 2-0 5:49 into the first period. Kailer Yamamoto scored on a power play goal to cut the deficit to 2-1 after the first period.

Helewka's first goal of the night tied the score at 2-all after the second period.

Everett scored the first three goals of the third period to take a 5-2 lead.

Spokane - which lost the season series to Everett 5-2 - outshot the Silvertips 33-20.

The two teams open the Western Conference playoffs against each other on Friday night at 7:35 in Everett