McCallum’s Goaltending Can’t Quite Save Blades From Being Dulled by Canes

Ethan McCallum (pictured) has yet to win a game in four starts in goal for the Saskatoon Blades since he was acquired in late October from Medicine Hat, but he was the least of the Bridge City Bunch’s problems in Wednesday night’s 2-1 loss in Lethbridge.

The 18-year-old netminder stopped 36 of 38 shots, but the Blue and Gold only managed 18 shots on Jackson Unger in the Hurricanes’ crease as the Blades are now winless in four games. All of the game’s scoring came in the second period when Miguel Marques scored short-handed for the 15-10-2 Canes while rookie Chase Peterson’s first W-H-L goal turned out to be the game winner. Captain Ben Saunderson scored the lone goal for Saskatoon, now 17-8-4 for the season and 0-2-2 in their last four outings. The Bridge City Bunch have two games remaining before a 12-day Christmas break – a Friday visit to Regina and a Sunday later afternoon home contest against Brandon at SaskTel Centre. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast, Les Lazaruk’s Post-Game Show interview with head coach Dan Da Silva and the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L…..

Game Report 1021514

Western Hockey League

PLAYED AT: VisitLethbridge.com Arena – Lethbridge, AB
Date: Dec 11, 2024
GAME NOTES: Saskatoon Blades Time-Out @18:59 of 3rd

Visiting Team: Saskatoon Blades
Manager:

Home Team: Lethbridge Hurricanes
Manager:

SASKATOON LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	33	McCallum, Ethan
G	35	Gardner, Evan
C	2	Saunderson, Ben (OA)
	3	Martin, Jordan
	4	Klimpke, Brayden
	5	Sytsma, Cameron
A	8	Lisowsky, Brandon (OA)
	9	Olsen, Zach
	13	Poll, Isaac
	14	Worthington, Colten
	17	Volotovskii, Misha
	18	Lodge, Kohen (AP)
	19	Riche, Ben
A	20	Parr, Tyler
	21	Siepmann, Grayden (OA)
	25	Williams, Cooper
	28	Hansen, Lukas
	36	Tetarenko, Lochlan
	52	Tastad, Morgan
	88	Blazek, Vlastimil

SASKATOON PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	17	2:00	Charging	13:20	1		13:20	15:20
2nd	4	2:00	Hooking	12:06	1		12:06	14:06

LETHBRIDGE LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Cleaver, Koen
G	35	Unger, Jackson
A	2	McCutcheon, Logan (OA)
	4	Adair, Carsen
	5	Pichette, Grady (AP)
C	8	Chadwick, Noah
	9	Doyle, Tristen
	10	Smith, Shane
	11	Cozens, Luke
	14	Marques, Miguel
	15	Gizowski, Kooper
	17	Sharpe, Will
A	18	Wormald, Logan
A	19	Edwards, Brayden (OA)
	20	Petersen, Chase
	22	Pakkala, Hayden (OA)
	25	Andresen, Kash
	26	Johnson, Trae
	27	Lesiuk, Gavin
	28	Braillard, Leo

LETHBRIDGE PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	22	2:00	Tripping	8:14	1		8:14	10:14
1st	26	2:00	High Sticking	15:09	1		15:09	17:09
2nd	19	2:00	Tripping	3:32	1		3:32	5:32

SASKATOON Goals			SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus)					LETHBRIDGE PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time	G-As1-As2
2nd	17:36	2-8-20	2	3	8	20	28	4	9	14	18	19

LETHBRIDGE Goals				LETHBRIDGE PLAYERS (plus)					SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time		G-As1-As2
2nd	4:36	SH	14-18-4	2	4	14	18		4	8	19	20	28
2nd	16:58		20-27-2	2	11	17	20	27	4	5	9	19	25

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
SASKATOON	0 / 3
LETHBRIDGE	0 / 2

PENALTY SUMMARY
SASKATOON	4 min / 2 inf
LETHBRIDGE	6 min / 3 inf

POINT SUMMARY
SASKATOON	1 G + 2 A = 3 Pts
LETHBRIDGE	2 G + 4 A = 6 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	Total
SASKATOON	0	1	0	1
LETHBRIDGE	0	2	0	2

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	Tot.	On	Off
SAS – McCallum (59:08) (L)	14	10	12	36	/0:00	3rd/19:08
LET – Unger (60:00) (W)	8	2	7	17	/0:00	3rd/20:00

Stars of the Game	TIME OF GAME:
LET – 20 Petersen	Start:	7:03 PM
SAS – 33 McCallum	End:	9:22 PM
LET – 2 McCutcheon	Attendance:	3038

OFFICIALS

Referee: Jesse Wood-Schatz (21)

Referee: Curtis Johanson (80)

Linesmen: Jason Nedinis (33)

Linesmen: Gavin Enns (163)

CERTIFIED CORRECT

This report has been checked and verified against the Official Western Hockey League Game Report.