By Les Lazaruk Please excuse the tennis references tonight. The Saskatoon Blades held serve Wednesday and have put pressure on the Prince Albert Raiders to do the same on Thursday or else a break will cause some separation in their match. Loosely translated, the Bridge City Bunch won their […]
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Saskatoon steals a point with stirring comeback
By Matthew Gourlie The Saskatoon Blades are a team that doesn’t go down easily. That is a lesson that the Moose Jaw Warriors should have absorbed on Saturday night as they struggled to hold off the Blades. It seemed, on Tuesday, that they had not. The Warriors raced out to […]
Hebig’s return sparks Blades to initial victory
By Les Lazaruk The argument can be made that one athlete shouldn’t be the difference between a team having success or failure. The Saskatoon Blades would be on the opposite side of that debate on Saturday night! After losing the first two games of the regular-season, scoring only four […]
Flodell flourishes in pre-season finale
By Les Lazaruk EDMONTON – One person was involved in two debates Saturday. His play answered one question emphatically and left another in doubt. Logan Flodell made 37 saves, several of the spectacular variety, backstopping the Saskatoon Blades to a 2-1 victory over the Oil Kings in the final […]
2017-18 WHL Season Previews: Saskatoon Blades
2017-18 WHL TEAM PROFILE Saskatoon Blades (2016-17 record…29-36-7, 65 pts; 5th in East Division) Missed the playoffs…for a fourth straight season: Needless to say, based on the above line, the 2017-18 season for the Bridge City Bunch is all about returning to the post-season…something the franchise felt they had a […]
Saskatoon Blades notebook: looking at the potential depth chart
SASKATOON – Major junior hockey’s “dirty word” isn’t allowed to be uttered anymore in Saskatoon! REBUILD!!! Following four consecutive seasons of not being in the Western Hockey League playoffs, after mortgaging the future in order to be a competitive host team for the 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup, the Blades opened […]