Originally published Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM

T-birds roll to 6-1 win over Prince George

Prab Rai and Greg Scott scored two goals each, leading the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 6-1 win over the Prince George Cougars Wednesday night...

Seattle Times staff

Prab Rai and Greg Scott scored two goals each, leading the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 6-1 win over the Prince George Cougars Wednesday night at KeyArena.

Seattle (33-20-5-2) has outscored Prince George 11-2 in the two meetings between the teams this season.

David Richard opened the scoring for the Thunderbirds, who jumped out to a 4-0 lead after one period with goals from Scott and both of Rai's tallies. Ian McKenzie completed the T-birds' scoring with a second-period goal.

Riku Helenius had 19 saves for Seattle, which moved one point away from fourth-place Kelowna in the WHL's Western Conference.

THUNDERBIRDS 6, COUGARS 1

Prince George	0 1 0 — 1
Seattle	4 2 0 — 6

First — 1, Seattle, Richard 18 (Rai, O'Brien), 6:52. 2, Seattle, Scott 30 (Nielsen, Olson), 7:51. 3, Seattle, Rai 12 (O'Brien, Richard), 12:02. 4, Seattle, Rai 13 (O'Brien), 17:59 (sh). Second — 5, Seattle, Scott 31 (Holloway, Nielsen), 3:34. 6, Seattle, Mckenzie 14 (Silvester, Boyer), 6:52. 7, Prince George, Tyrell 24 (Poulter, Gardner), 15:45 (pp). Third — no scoring. Shots on goal — Seattle 12-13-7 32. Prince George 6-9-5 20. Goalies — Seattle, Helenius 20 shots-19 saves (18-11-5-1); Prince George, Cyr 32- 26 (10-24-1-2). Power plays — Seattle 0-4; Prince George 1-4. A — 2,826.

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