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Navigating to the Northwest - Seattle Navigators Expansion NHL 18

Posted on March 16, 2018 at 04:11 PM.

Tonight is the night. Thursday, October 12, 2018. The Seattle Navigators are playing their first regular season game.

The day before, the locker room gathered together and decided to go with three alternate captains. Calle Jarnkrok, Justin Williams, and Sami Vatanen were given the honor and would lead the team against the Hurricanes the next night.

Puck dropped, and hockey was played.

Oct 12, 2017	1	2	3	F
SEA (1-0-0)	1	1	1	3
CAR (0-1-0)	1	1	0	2

Three Stars
	Sami Vatanen, D 1G, 1A
	Devante Smith-Pelly GWG
	Elias Lindholm 1G

Team Stats Comparison
	SEA	CAR
Shots on Goal	21	23
Hits	15	10
Faceoffs Won-Lost	7-10	10-7
Penalty Minutes	0	0
Power Plays Converted	0	0
Power Play Opportunities	0	0
Time on Attack	8:56	5:28

Scoring Summary
FIRST PERIOD
CAR	Valentin Zykov (1) (J. McClement, L. Ferraro)
SEA	Matt Nieto (1) (A. Burmistrov)
SECOND PERIOD
CAR	Elias Lindholm (1) (Unassisted)
SEA	Sami Vatanen (1) (A. Anisimov, C. Jarnkrok)
THIRD PERIOD
SEA	Devante Smith-Pelly (1) (S. Vatanen, J. Schultz)

And what a win it was! A very back and forth game, with Devante Smith-Pelly netting the winning goal with under five minutes remaining. Seattle played a fast game, forechecking the Hurricane defenders whenever they could. Not the perfect game, as the defense struggled a bit and offense was disjointed at times, but a good win nonetheless. On to Los Angeles!