Blades Salvage Single Point in Victoria, But Let a Second One Slip Away

The Saskatoon Blades were in good shape to record a fifth straight victory over Victoria Sunday night, before the Royals rallied for a 5-4 shootout triumph.

Brandon Lisowsky (pictured) and Tyler Parr gave the Bridge City Bunch a 2-0 advantage after the first period and the two-goal lead remained after 40 minutes as Ben Saunderson negated a Markus Loponen tally for the home side. The Blue and Gold were fully in command with a 4-1 lead after rookie centre Cooper Williams tallied early in the third period – a score that was the same with 11 minutes left when Victoria started their comeback. Loponen scored a second goal and Macklin product Cole Reschny notched two goals, the second one with 98 seconds remaining and the Royals utilizing an extra attacker. The game required four rounds of a shootout before Saskatoon product Logan Pickford connected for his second winner in the penalty shot-format of the young season. Victoria, now 9-4-2 for the season, out-shot the now 10-3-2 Blades 32-28 as the Bridge City Bunch had Ethan McCallum make his debut in goal. A couple of Blades’ milestone notes…defenceman Tanner Molendyk recorded his 100th career W-H-L assist…all in a Saskatoon jersey, while Lisowsky notched his 127th career goal, all with the Blades, moving him into 12th place on the all-time franchise list – ahead of Paul Buczkowski. The Blue and Gold are 0-1-1 on their B-C road trip, which continues Tuesday in Prince George. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast, Les Lazaruk’s Post-Game Show interview with head coach Dan Da Silva plus the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L…..

Game Report 1021368

Western Hockey League

PLAYED AT: Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena – Victoria, BC
Date: Nov 3, 2024
GAME NOTES: Time out: VIC – 3rd @ 18:22

Visiting Team: Saskatoon Blades
Manager:

Home Team: Victoria Royals
Manager:

SASKATOON LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	33	McCallum, Ethan
G	35	Gardner, Evan
C	2	Saunderson, Ben (OA)
	4	Klimpke, Brayden
A	8	Lisowsky, Brandon (OA)
	11	Kibblewhite, Hudson
	13	Poll, Isaac
	17	Volotovskii, Misha
	19	Riche, Ben
	20	Parr, Tyler
	21	Siepmann, Grayden (OA)
	23	Calvert, Rowan
A	24	Molendyk, Tanner
	25	Williams, Cooper
	28	Hansen, Lukas
	36	Tetarenko, Lochlan
	52	Tastad, Morgan
	72	James, William
	86	Lewandowski, David
	88	Blazek, Vlastimil

SASKATOON PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
3rd	86	2:00	Tripping	6:33	1		6:33	8:33

VICTORIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	33	Kraus, Jayden
G	35	Michnik, Spencer
C	3	Kipkie, Justin
	4	Fryer, Seth
	6	Boehm, Brayden (OA)
A	7	Reschny, Cole
	8	Watterodt, Vaughn (OA)
	12	Wilson, Cosmo
	14	Ross, Jerrett
	16	Danyleyko, Wyatt
	17	Stewart, Nolan
	19	Moore, Hayden
	20	Loponen, Markus
	21	Pohludka, Simon
	22	Trembecky, Teydon
A	23	Misskey, Nate
	24	Keller, Matthew
A	25	Newman, Reggie
	26	Matthews, Caleb
	28	Pickford, Logan

VICTORIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	3	2:00	Tripping	4:11	1		4:11	4:40

SASKATOON Goals				SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus)					VICTORIA PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time		G-As1-As2
1st	4:40	PP	8-23-19
1st	16:17		20-2	2	4	8	19	20	3	4	8	19	28
2nd	9:44		2-24-8	2	8	19	20	24	3	7	19	22	23
3rd	2:03		25-86	4	21	23	25	86	3	4	6	25	28

VICTORIA Goals			VICTORIA PLAYERS (plus)						SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time	G-As1-As2
2nd	9:13	20-25-6	6	14	20	24	25		17	21	23	52	86
3rd	9:07	7-23-3	3	7	12	19	23		4	11	21	36	88
3rd	16:57	20-6-25	6	14	20	22	25		2	4	23	25	86
3rd	18:22	7-3-23	3	7	19	22	23	25	2	11	17	21	28

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
SASKATOON	1 / 1
VICTORIA	0 / 1

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

POINT SUMMARY
SASKATOON	4 G + 6 A = 10 Pts
VICTORIA	4 G + 8 A = 12 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	OT	SO	Total
SASKATOON	2	1	1	0	0	4
VICTORIA	0	1	3	0	1	5

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	OT	Tot.	On	Off
SAS – McCallum (65:00) (SL)	6	12	9	1	28	/0:00	OT/5:00
VIC – Michnik (57:31) (W)	10	3	8	0	21	/0:00	3rd/17:31
VIC – Michnik (6:38) (W)	0	0	0	4	4	/18:22	OT/5:00