Gardner’s Goaltending Helps Blades Douse Blazers

The early-season winning streak is now up to five games and the Saskatoon Blades are in first place in, both, the East Division and Eastern Conference after blanking the visiting Kamloops Blazers 3-0 Saturday night.

Evan Gardner (pictured) stopped all 32 shots he faced for his eighth career shutout in front of 3,452 fans. That moved the 19-year-old Columbus Blue Jackets’ draft pick into third place on the all-time Blades’ list for career shutouts, past Braden Holtby. Nolan Maier tops the list with 12 clean sheets with Andrey Makarov in second spot with nine shutouts. Gardner got all the goal support he needed in the first period as Jordan Martin, Zach Olsen and David Lewandowski tallied. Martin added an assist while his defence partner Brayden Klimpke chipped in a pair of helpers. Between Gardner and a stout Bridge City Bunch defensive effort, rookie Kamloops star J.P. Hurlbert was held off the score sheet for the first time this season. Other than the three goals on six shots in the first period, Saskatoon product Logan Edmonstone kept the Blazers in range by stopping 21 shots over the final 40 minutes of play. The Blue and Gold, now 7-2-0 for the season and a perfect 4-0-0 at SaskTel Centre, are off until Friday when they host Moose Jaw. Kamloops, now 3-4-0 for the season, take a four-game losing streak into the third game of their East Division road trip on Thanksgiving Monday in Regina. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast, Post-Game Show interviews with head coach Dan Da Silva, Gardner and Martin plus the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L;s website…..

Game Report 1022206

Western Hockey League

PLAYED AT: SaskTel Centre – Saskatoon, SK
Date: Oct 11, 2025

Visiting Team: Kamloops Blazers
Manager:

Home Team: Saskatoon Blades
Manager:

KAMLOOPS LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Kufterins, Ivans
G	31	Edmonstone, Logan
A	2	Hurlbert, JP
	3	Deobald, Dryden
	5	Guram, Isa
	9	Geras, Joaquin
	10	Bouchard, Teagen (AP)
C	12	Michael, Ryan
	13	Dumansky, Jacob
	14	Moore, Cooper
	15	Cooper, Owen
A	16	Lafreniere, Tommy
	19	Thomson, Andrew
A	22	Keller, Jordan
	23	Evaschesen, Josh
	24	Bonkowski, Ty
	25	Tymchak, Madden
	29	Behm, Nathan
	32	Gingras, Asher
	33	Markel, Evan

KAMLOOPS PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	9	2:00	Roughing	14:18			14:18	16:18
2nd	12	2:00	Interference	5:23	1		5:23	7:23
3rd	15	2:00	Hooking	5:22	1		5:22	7:22

SASKATOON LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	33	McCallum, Ethan
G	35	Gardner, Evan
	3	Martin, Jordan
A	4	Klimpke, Brayden
	9	Olsen, Zach
	11	Lewandowski, David
	13	Poll, Isaac
	16	Williams, Cooper
	17	Willhöft, Dustin
	18	Lodge, Kohen
	19	Clark, Gavin
C	20	Parr, Tyler (OA)
A	23	Calvert, Rowan (OA)
	26	Harsanyi, Hayden
	37	Kachkowski, Jack
	41	Lavallee, Jack
	47	Doyle, Tristen
	71	Bowtell, Ben
	77	Mathies, Kazden
	82	Petr, Dominik (OA)

SASKATOON PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	20	2:00	Checking from Behind	7:02	1		7:02	9:02
1st	16	2:00	Tripping	11:47	1		11:47	13:47
1st	4	2:00	Roughing	14:18			14:18	16:18
2nd	47	2:00	Interference	7:00	1		7:00	9:00
2nd	17	2:00	Holding	9:55	1		9:55	11:55
3rd	23	2:00	Cross Checking	12:46	1		12:46	14:46

KAMLOOPS Goals

KAMLOOPS PLAYERS (plus)

SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

SASKATOON Goals			SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus)					KAMLOOPS PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time	G-As1-As2
1st	4:30	3-4	3	4	9	16	26	3	9	14	16	22
1st	14:18	9-26-4	3	4	9	16	26	2	9	12	23	29
1st	19:29	11-3-37	3	11	17	37	82	5	14	16	22	33

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
KAMLOOPS	0 / 5
SASKATOON	0 / 2

PENALTY SUMMARY
KAMLOOPS	6 min / 3 inf
SASKATOON	12 min / 6 inf

POINT SUMMARY
KAMLOOPS	0 G + A = 0 Pts
SASKATOON	3 G + 5 A = 8 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	Total
KAMLOOPS	0	0	0	0
SASKATOON	3	0	0	3

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	Tot.	On	Off
KAM – Edmonstone (39:57) (L)	3	9	0	12	/0:00	2nd/19:57
KAM – Edmonstone (20:00) (L)	0	0	12	12	/0:00	3rd/20:00
SAS – Gardner (60:00) (W)	9	16	7	32	/0:00	3rd/20:00