SPOKANE, Wash. — During the course of a hockey season, there are bound to be times a team will go through struggles in the win-loss column. The Chiefs had just gone through one of those times as they dropped 4 of 5 during a recent home stand to drop under .500 and into third place in the U.S. Division. At times like those, sometimes it's good for a team to get on the road and get away from the distractions of home to regather themselves.

Spokane aimed to do just that and got off to a good start as they won the first game of a 3-game road swing with a 4-3 victory at Portland. The win pulled the Chiefs even with the Winterhawks for second in the division as Spokane took off for British Columbia to finish the three-game trip with back-to-back games in Penticton and Kelowna on Friday and Satu

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