Blades Timing Off in Loss at Regina

An unwritten rule of hockey is that, as a team, you try to avoid allowing goals in the first two minutes and last two minutes of any period as those goals tend to give the opposition momentum. The Saskatoon Blades didn’t do a good enough job of following that unwritten rule in falling 6-3 Saturday night to the Pats in Regina.

The Bridge City Bunch surrendered the opening goal, on Regina’s first shot on goal, just over two minutes into the contest; allowed a tying goal with 34 seconds left in the first period plus the eventual winning goal just 13 seconds into the third period. For a second straight game against the Pats, the Blue and Gold were victimized by 15-year-old centre Maddox Schultz. His two goals, plus an assist, gave him first star honours – although Marek Schlenker had to be dialed in to stop 38 of 41 Blades’ shots. Only Hunter Laing, Jordan Martin and Rowan Calvert could solve Schlenker. Laing and Calvert added assists on each other’s tallies. It was Saskatoon’s first loss in five visits to Regina. With only seven games left in the regular season, the 30-25-6 Bridge City Bunch appear destined to finish in sixth place in the W-H-L’s Eastern Conference. The Blue and Gold are five points back of fifth place Brandon, who have two games in hand. The Blades’ next action is a Wednesday home game against Red Deer. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast plus Les Lazaruk’s Post-Game Show interview with head coach Dan Da Silva and the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L website…..

Game Report 1022800

Western Hockey League

PLAYED AT: Brandt Centre – Regina, SK
Date: Feb 28, 2026

Visiting Team: Saskatoon Blades
Manager:

Home Team: Regina Pats
General Manager: Dale Derkatch
Manager:

SASKATOON LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Budd, Ryley
G	35	Gardner, Evan
	3	Martin, Jordan
A	4	Klimpke, Brayden
	13	Poll, Isaac
	16	Williams, Cooper
	17	Willhöft, Dustin
	19	Clark, Gavin
C	20	Parr, Tyler (OA)
A	23	Calvert, Rowan (OA)
	25	Mitchell-McElhone, Triston
A	27	Laing, Hunter
	36	Lewko, Cohen (AP)
	37	Kachkowski, Jack
	46	Allan, Kaden
	47	Doyle, Tristen
	67	John, Jaggar (AP)
	71	Bowtell, Ben
	77	Mathies, Kazden
	88	Pul, Elias

SASKATOON PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	67	2:00	Tripping	3:11	1		3:11

REGINA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Tabashniuk, Taylor
G	35	Schlenker, Marek
A	4	Bridgeman, Kolten
	6	Hamilton, Reese
	10	Fawcett, Keets
	13	Pue, Liam (AP)
A	18	Moore, Zach
	19	Schultz, Maddox (AP)
	20	Bear, Connor
	21	Mieyette, Ellis
	23	Wagner, Aiden
	25	Karimov, Ruslan
A	27	Brown, Caden (OA)
	32	Paull, Mathis
	37	Klassen, Cohen
	38	Deschamps, Dayton
	44	Paranych, Matt
	49	Derkatch, Dayce
C	55	McNutt, Ephram (OA)
	57	Lansard, Zachary

REGINA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
3rd	4	2:00	Interference	7:09	1		7:09

SASKATOON Goals			SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus)					REGINA PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time	G-As1-As2
1st	6:05	27-23	16	23	27	46	47	6	18	37	49	55
1st	16:30	3-4-71	3	4	17	19	71	21	23	25	27	38
3rd	11:21	23-47-27	16	23	27	46	47	4	13	25	27	44

REGINA Goals				REGINA PLAYERS (plus)					SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time		G-As1-As2
1st	2:08		19-10-38	10	19	23	38	57	16	17	46	47	71
1st	19:26		38-37-18	4	18	25	37	38	16	23	27	37	47
2nd	7:09		19-6-55	6	10	18	19	55	3	4	19	23	25
3rd	:13		32-13	6	13	20	32	55	13	16	23	27	37
3rd	3:45		55-19-57	6	10	19	55	57	3	4	20	77	88
3rd	17:43	EN	20	4	10	20	44	57	16	20	23	27	47	77

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
SASKATOON	0 / 1
REGINA	0 / 1

PENALTY SUMMARY
SASKATOON	2 min / 1 inf
REGINA	2 min / 1 inf

POINT SUMMARY
SASKATOON	3 G + 5 A = 8 Pts
REGINA	6 G + 9 A = 15 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	Total
SASKATOON	2	0	1	3
REGINA	2	1	3	6

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	Tot.	On	Off
SAS – Budd (57:25) (L)	3	15	6	24	/0:00	3rd/17:25
SAS – Budd (2:17) (L)	0	0	1	1	/17:43	3rd/20:00
REG – Schlenker (60:00) (W)	12	10	16	38	/0:00	3rd/20:00