{"id":199025,"date":"2026-03-01T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:30:07","slug":"coachella-valley-firebirds-win-in-shootout-to-bakersfield-condors-the-rink-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199025\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella Valley Firebirds win in shootout to Bakersfield Condors &#8211; The Rink Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coachella Valley Firebirds played the Bakersfield Condors in what was to be a closely-fought encounter on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. The game went all the way to a shootout where Coachella Valley was the stronger team. The final score was 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/595291\/eduard-sale\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eduard Sale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       scored the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Firebirds started off strong and took the lead early in the game with <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/151828\/john-hayden\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Hayden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       scoring within the first minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Firebirds made it 2-0 with a goal from <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/611825\/jani-nyman\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jani Nyman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/201363\/james-hamblin\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Hamblin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       scored late in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Howard tied it up 2-2 with a goal early in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Firebirds won the game 3-2 in the shootout. Eduard Sale provided the decisive penalty shot.<\/p>\n<p>Next games:<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, March 04, 2026, the Valley Firebirds will take on the Henderson Silver Knights, with the Condors matching up against Ontario on Sunday, March 01, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.therinklive.com\/sports\/pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more pro hockey coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scoring:<\/p>\n<p>AHL<\/p>\n<p>6th February 2026<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Condors at Coachella Valley Firebirds<\/p>\n<p>3-2<\/p>\n<p>1st period:<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley Firebirds, 0\u20131 (0:21) John Hayden<\/p>\n<p>Coachella Valley Firebirds, 0\u20132 (6:10) Jani Nyman<\/p>\n<p>2nd period:<\/p>\n<p>1\u20132 (34:29) James Hamblin<\/p>\n<p>3rd period:<\/p>\n<p>2\u20132 (44:18) Isaac Howard<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therinklive.com\/the-rink-live-textbot\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The Rink Live Textbot\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/d4dc9a1\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1300x1300+310+0\/resize\/100x100!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd0%2F91%2F14f9b4e549b9b570325c2183a9fe%2Ftrl-icon-author-page.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDBweCIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Automated articles produced by United Robots on behalf of The Rink Live.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coachella Valley Firebirds played the Bakersfield Condors in what was to be a closely-fought encounter on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-199025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}