The last of the United States teams in the WHL to be covered is the Tri-City Americans. They play their home games in the town of Kennewick, WA, and are the regular season Western Conference champions. They scored 281 goals, good for fourth in the WHL, and led the league with only 190 goals given up. However, all of that went for naught, as they were swept in the Conference finals by bitter rival Portland Winterhawks. Two of the five leading scorers in the WHL played for the Americans, as Brendan Shinnimin, a free-agent pickup of the Phoenix Coyotes and scoring leader of the league, and Adam Hughesman paced the team in scoring. Among the players to have gone through the Tri-City system include Olaf Kolzig, Sheldon Souray, Stu Barnes, and Carey Price.
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