Burnaby’s Adam Helewka figured in all the scoring for the Spokane Chiefs, scoring two goals and assisting on a third in a 7-3 loss to the Seattle Thunderbirds in Western Hockey League play on Friday.
The Burnaby South Secondary grad opened the scoring on the power play and also tallied while shorthanded in the final frame for the Chiefs.
Helewka currently has 14 goals and 10 assists in 22 games for Spokane.
First goal leads to another
Former Burnaby Winter Club defenceman Karl Alzner scored his first-ever goal at home for the Washington Capitals in a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday.
It was the first tally at the Verizon Centre in 148 career games for the Burnaby talent.
“Me and (Nate Schmidt) had been talking about it back and forth how he hasn’t scored yet and I haven’t scored at home,” Alzner said in a NHL release. “In the (second) intermission, I said, ‘Alright Schmidty, now that I’ve scored, you can score one,’ and he went out and did it.”
Quick pair earns star nod
Burnaby Winter Club product Landon Ferraro scored a pair of goals and was named the game’s first star for the Grand Rapids Griffins in a 5-1 win over the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League.
Ferraro potted his fourth and fifth goals of the year in two-minute span early in the middle period for the second-place Western conference Griffins.
First junior A goal
Marco Ballarin of New Westminster scored his first B.C. Junior Hockey League goal in the Prince George Spruce Kings’ 6-3 loss to the Coquitlam Express on Dec. 6.
Ballarin, who signed with the Prince George club earlier in the week, tallied his first junior A marker in the opening minute of the middle period that temporarily tied the game at 2-2.
