EVERETT – The Everett Silvertips announced a game-day trade on Sunday that brings goaltender Daniel Cotton to Everett from the Seattle Thunderbirds in exchange for a conditional sixth-round pick in the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft.  With Austin Lotz unavailable after being injured in the second period of Saturday’s game at Seattle, Cotton joined Cole Holowenko in uniform for Sunday’s game against the Tri-City Americans.

Cotton, 18, saw the first action of his second WHL season Sunday after serving primarily as a back-up to Thunderbirds’ goaltender Calvin Pickard last year.  In 17 appearances a season ago, the Vancouver, BC native po