For the first time in a half-decade, the Saskatoon Blades are heading into a new Western Hockey League season with high expectations. After missing the playoffs for the fifth straight year in 2017-18, the Blades set themselves up for success the following season, which they had, finishing the regular season […]
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Blades add to blue line with import signings
The Saskatoon Blades appear to have their defense core ready to go for the 2019-20 Western Hockey League season with signing its two 2019 import-drafted players to standard player agreements. Selected 55th and 115th overall by Saskatoon in the 2019 Canadian Hockey League Import Draft, 19-year-old Libor Zabransky and 17-year-old […]
Daily Dose of the Dub: Roykas-Marthinsen signs in Sweden, Chiefs goaltending coach joins ICE, Kohler, Baragano make Swiss U-20 team
Saskatoon Blades overage import Kristian Roykas-Marthinsen won’t be returning to the Blades for his final season of junior eligibility as he has signed a contract with HC Dalen in Sweden’s Division 1 League.
Daily Dose of the Dub: Blazers sign two prospects, Pats sign Goaltender, CHL holds Import Draft and more
The Kamloops Blazers announced the signing of prospects Dylan Ernst and Tye Spencer to their WHL player agreements.
Off-season outlook: Saskatoon Blades
This is an ongoing series as we start the long road to the 2019-20 WHL season. We will be going in the order that teams were eliminated from contention. Keep in mind that the roster guesses vary because of information made available to us. We did our very best to […]
Blades pushed to the brink of elimination with Game 5 loss
Prince Albert-6 Saskatoon-1 Game 5 Prince Albert leads series 3-2 Well the home ice trend continued on Friday night in Prince Albert. The home team has taken every game in this series which has now pushed the Saskatoon Blades to the brink of elimination. The first period seemed to be […]
2019 NHL Draft Profiles: Emil Malysjev
2001-born defenseman Emil Malysjev had a pretty good set up in Sweden. He was developing in the vaunted HV71 system where many talented Swedish players had played before. The six-foot-three, 190-pound blue liner could have kept moving up the system and possibly onto the professional club. To hear him tell […]
2018-19 WHL season previews: Saskatoon Blades
By Les Lazaruk 2017-18: For the fifth straight season, the Saskatoon Blades failed to qualify for the WHL playoffs. After hosting the 2013 Memorial Cup, the Bridge City Bunch dropped from 44 wins and 94 points to 16 wins and 37 points in 2013-14. Since then, the Blue and […]
Daily Dose of the Dub: More signings and roster cutdowns
Saskatoon signs their other import BREAKING: Blades sign Swedish defenceman Emil Malysjev ? » https://t.co/jVuVKK8Jir pic.twitter.com/axtsHPDaSx — Saskatoon Blades (@BladesHockey) August 28, 2018 Just a few days after singing an import pick from this June’s draft, the Saskatoon Blades inked their other one. They announced the singing of Swedish defenseman […]