Four Straight Wins, After a Setback, Carry Blades Past Raiders in Opening Playoff Round
It was a sweep, following a blip to start, but the Saskatoon Blades are through to the second round of the W-H-L Playoffs, eliminating the arch-rival Prince Albert Raiders Friday with a 6-2 triumph to win the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final 4-1. The Bridge City Bunch scored four times in a span of just o...
Apr 06, 2024
Rattlers Sign Fifth Player For 2024 C-E-B-L Season in Canadian and Nebraska Grad Bandoumel
The Saskatchewan Rattlers announced a fifth player signing in advance of the 2024 C-E-B-L season on Friday. The Snakes will have 6'4" Nebraska grad Emmanuel Bandoumel on board to start the year. Bandoumel is a Quebec City product who made his professional debut this past winter season in Denmark. He will play his ...
Apr 05, 2024
P-B-R Canada Bringing Debut Event to Kindersley With Dakota Buttar
Coming off his second P-B-R Canada championship, Eatonia product Dakota Buttar and the West Central Events Centre in Kindersley will host a new Canadian Touring Pro Division event. The Energy Dodge Dakota Buttar Invitational will be held September 5 with 30 of Canada's best riders along with some of P-B-R's top interna...
Apr 04, 2024
Blades Effectively Post Victory Over Home-Standing Raiders to Take Series Stranglehold
The Saskatoon Blades got all the offence they needed in about a six-minute span Wednesday night, then locked it down on defence to beat the Raiders 4-1 in Prince Albert. The result gives the Bridge City Bunch a 3-1 advantage in the best-of-seven W-H-L Eastern Conference quarter-final series with a chance to advance and...
Apr 04, 2024
Ho Hum, Another Personal Honour For Blades' Goaltender Gardner
The second-ever Rookie-of-the-Year in the Western Canada Hockey League, the precursor to today's Western Hockey League, was Ron Fairbrother, who played for the Saskatoon Blades, shortly after the franchise was formed by original owner Jim Piggott. Fairbrother is the only member of the Blades to win the, now named Jim P...
Apr 03, 2024
Armstrong's O-T Goal is a Hat-Trick Winner as Blades Slip Past Raiders
They never trailed, but they were never comfortable, yet the Saskatoon Blades found a way to record a big playoff victory on the road Tuesday, 4-3 in overtime over the Raiders in Prince Albert. Easton Armstrong (pictured) was the hero, stuffing Trevor Wong's goal-mouth pass into the net 23 seconds into O-T. It was the ...
Apr 03, 2024
Blades Grab Pair of East Division Awards, One Team and One Individual
Evan Gardner (pictured) is a W-H-L division award winner. The 17-year-old rookie was named the East Division winner of the W-H-L Humanitarian-of-the-Year award. In addition, for a second straight year, the Saskatoon Blades are the East Division winners of the W-H-L Business Award. After revealing that he is a Type 1 Di...
Apr 02, 2024
Blades' Gardner Receives March W-H-L Top Goaltender Salute
Rookie Evan Gardner (pictured) of the Saskatoon Blades is W-H-L's Goaltender-of-the-Month for March. The 17-year-old Lake Country, B-C, product is currently on a personal 10-game winning streak, including five regular-season and one playoff victory. He shutout Prince Albert to close out the regular-season, then followe...
Apr 01, 2024
Canadian Receiver Emilus Adds on the 2025 Season in Contract Extension With Roughriders
The Saskatchewan Roughriders top Canadian receiver in 2023 is under contract to the Green and White for 2024 and 25. Samuel Emilus signed a one-year contract extension for 2025 as he was slated to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2024 season. As a sophomore last year, the Montreal product caught 70 p...
Apr 01, 2024
Gardner's Goaltending and Saskatoon's Special Teams Allow Blades to Even Series With Raiders
In a 4-1 victory Friday night, the Saskatoon Blades flipped the script on the Prince Albert Raiders from Thursday and evened the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final series at a win apiece. Rookie Bridge City Bunch goaltender Evan Gardner (pictured) stopped 31 of 32 shots while the Blue and Gold power play ga...
Mar 30, 2024