{"id":450071,"date":"2026-02-07T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:47:22","slug":"k-wings-bested-by-bison-pro-hockey-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450071\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Wings bested by Bison | Pro Hockey News"},"content":{"rendered":"

KALAMAZOO, MI \u2013 The Kalamazoo Wings (17-18-3-3), proud ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League\u2019s Vancouver Canucks, couldn\u2019t recover from a pair of second-period goals, 1:19 apart, and fell to the Bloomington Bison (22-16-2-2) on Friday at Wings Event Center, 5-2.<\/p>\n

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Colin Bilek (11) started the scoring for the K-Wings with a goal at the 2:13 mark of the first period. On the play,\u00a0Collin Saccoman (7) crossed to\u00a0Davis Pennington (21), who sent a bomb from near the blue line that deflected off the stick of Bilek in the left circle and floated over the netminder and into the twine for early advantage.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Bloomington took the momentum with two second-period goals at the 12:46 and 14:27 marks. The Bison followed up by tacking a pair of goals in the third frame at the 3:59 and 9:25 marks.<\/p>\n

Jackson Kunz (2) then narrowed the deficit to two with his second goal in as many games at the 15:59 mark. On the goal,\u00a0Zach Okabe (21) sent a left-circle pass to\u00a0Quinn Preston\u00a0(20) at the goaltender\u2019s right flank, who then crossed to Kunz opposite him for the bang-bang goal.<\/p>\n

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Bloomington then found an empty net at the 17:51 mark, bringing the score to 5-2.<\/p>\n

The K-Wings and Bison continued to slug it out in another physical matchup, seeing each team pick up a pair of fighting majors. However, the two teams only combined for four power-play opportunities.<\/p>\n

Ty Young (7-4-1-0) made 20 saves in the loss. The K-Wings took the shot total 28-26, went 1-for-3 on the power play and 1-for-1 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KALAMAZOO, MI \u2013 The Kalamazoo Wings (17-18-3-3), proud ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League\u2019s Vancouver Canucks, couldn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-450071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"tag-vancouver-canucks","13":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116028484593300093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}