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The Ams losing streak now sits at 4 after suffering a weekend worth of losses. Friday night the Ams lost to Everett:

SILVERTIPS 5, AMERICANS 2

Josh Birkholz exploded for five points with three goals and two assists while Luke Siemens turned aside 45 of 47 shots he faced to lead the Everett Silvertips to a 5-2 win over the visiting Tri-City Americans on Friday.

Scott MacDonald notched two goals and an assist for the Silvertips (7-7-1-3), who built up a 3-0 lead after the first period en route to snapping a three-game losing skid and a two-game goalless drought.

Kruise Reddick and Nils Moser – with his first of the season – scored for the Americans (11-6-1-1), who see their losing skid hit three games while falling to 7-5-1 on the road.  Drew Owsley and Chris Driedger combined for 22 saves in the loss. (whl)

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Then there was the loss last night to Spokane:


SPOKANE 5, AMERICANS 0


Kenton Miller had a three-point night, James Reid picked up 20 saves and five different skaters recorded a goal as the Spokane Chiefs (10-8-1-0, 21 pts)Tri-City Americans (11-7-1-1, 24 pts) in front of 9,816 fans at Veterans Memorial Arena.  With the win, Spokane has now won three straight and has climbed back into the division race after starting the season with a 2-5 record.  Meanwhile, the road-weary Americans dropped their fourth straight game, something the club has not done since January 4-9, 2008.  However, despite the losing streak, Tri-City still holds a 7-6-1-0 road record this year in spite of playing 70% of their games away from home to start the season. (tca)

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Ams get a cheesy cat fail for the weekends effort.

What does this all mean? Well, not only are the standings closer (take a look below) but it also means that they go into another week without games with 0 momentum. nada. It's frustrating. dropping games to division rivals, and the scores weren't even close. We got outscored 10-2 this weekend. and it was both goalies, drew and chris. Something is different about Drew, the 'lights out' factor doesn't seem to be there. we've seen it a couple of times this season but definitely not recently. 
It's hard to judge when you're not at the game. I'm not near about to panic but a win in Chiliwack on Friday followed by a win at home against Spokane would be nice. Spokane hasn't beaten us at home
this year, and I would like to keep it that way.


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US DIVISION UPDATE: 

Rank	U.S. Division	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STK	P10	PIM
1	Portland Winterhawks	21	17	3	0	1	35	0.833	86	53	1-0-0-0	9-1-0-0	453
2	Seattle Thunderbirds	19	9	4	3	3	24	0.632	56	52	3-0-1-1	4-2-2-2	370
3	Tri-City Americans	20	11	7	1	1	24	0.600	70	70	0-3-0-1	4-5-0-1	319
4	Spokane Chiefs	19	10	8	1	0	21	0.553	72	54	3-0-1-0	6-3-1-0	412
5	Everett Silvertips	19	8	7	1	3	20	0.526	49	54	2-0-0-0	3-5-0-2	305