Monday . . .

The Seattle Thunderbirds will play their last game in KeyArena tonight as they meet the Chilliwack Bruins. The Thunderbirds then will play New Year’s Eve against the Winter Hawks in Portland. And, finally, the Thunderbirds will play their first game in their new home – the ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash., on Jan. 3 against the Everett Silvertips. . . . The Kamloops Blazers will be the second road team into the ShoWare Center when they visit on Jan. 4.
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F Mike Piluso scored off a rebound with 2:19 left in the third period gave the host Vancouver Giants a 3-2 victory over the Kelowna Rockets on Monday in front of 9,009 fans. . . . C Casey Pierro-Zabotel, who leads the WHL in assists (42), set up two goals for the Giants. He has 58 points, two behind leader Brandon Kozun of the Calgary Hitmen. . . . Vancouver is 18-0-0-2 at Pacific Coliseum this season, and think about that for a moment! . . . The Giants, who are at home to the Moose Jaw Warriors tonight, have won nine in a row. . . . The Rockets took a 2-1 lead into the third period and they had been 14-0 when leading after 40 minutes. . . . F Craig Cunningham had one of the Vancouver’s other goals. He now is on a five-game goal-scoring streak.
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RW Brady Calla scored three times to lead the Kamloops Blazers to a 5-2 victory over the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick, Wash. . . . Calla, who joined the Blazers on Nov. 20, from the AHL’s Rochester Americans, upped his goal total to four. . . . Kamloops G Jon Groenheyde, starting for the first time since Nov. 22, turned aside 32 shots. It was his eighth start of the season and his first victory since the Blazers beat the visiting Vancouver Giants 4-3 in a shootout on Sept. 24. . . . Tri-City D Mitch McColm picked up 27 penalty minutes in one stoppage as he went after Calla, who was about to be penalized for boarding. McColm got instigating, fighting and two misconducts, one for a sweater infraction. . . . The Americans are 16-3-0-0 at home. . . . “Give credit to their goalie,” Tri-City head coach Don Nachbaur told Annie Fowler of the Tri-City Herald. “We couldn’t get anything past him.”