Blades Ride Solid Team Effort For All But a Few Minutes to Quell Hurricanes at Home

For the second time in five days, the Saskatoon Blades showed they aren’t intimidated by one of the “all-in” teams from the Central Division, defeating the Hurricanes 4-3 Wednesday night in Lethbridge.

After doubling the Calgary Hitmen 6-3 on Valentine’s Day at SaskTel Centre, Hunter Laing (pictured) scored twice in the first 5:20 on the Bridge City Bunch’s first two shots on Canes’ goaltender Jackson Unger and followed with a solid 55-minute team effort in frustrating a very good Lethbridge team in front of 3,343 fans. The Hurricanes had a late comeback from a 4-1 deficit fall one goal short as the Blue and Gold improved to 29-18-7 for 65 points, one back of Prince Albert and two behind East Division-leading Brandon. Laing’s second goal was of the highlight reel variety, deking Unger to the ice and stepping around the goaltender for a tuck-in marker. Kazden Mathies and Hayden Harsanyi also tallied for the Blades as all four goals were scored by players acquired between New Year’s Day and the W-H-L’s January 9th trade deadline. Captain Ben Saunderson chipped in two assists as Saskatoon was out-shot 32-24 by the now 34-19-3 Canes. The Bridge City Bunch have Thursday off before taking on the Rebels in Red Deer on Friday. The Blue and Gold have a Magic Number of 10 points over Red Deer to clinch a playoff spot. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast, Les Lazaruk’s Post-Game Show interviews with head coach Dan Da Silva and Laing as well as Les’ second intermission chat with Lethbridge General Manager Peter Anholt, plus the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L…..

Game Report 1021800

Western Hockey League

PLAYED AT: VisitLethbridge.com Arena – Lethbridge, AB
Date: Feb 19, 2025
GAME NOTES: Saskatoon Blades Time-Out @19:29 of 3rd Lethbridge Hurricanes Time-Out @19:59 of 3rd

Visiting Team: Saskatoon Blades
Manager:

Home Team: Lethbridge Hurricanes
Manager:

SASKATOON LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Budd, Ryley (AP)
G	33	McCallum, Ethan
C	2	Saunderson, Ben (OA)
	3	Martin, Jordan
	9	Olsen, Zach
	13	Poll, Isaac
	16	John, Jaggar (AP)
	18	Lodge, Kohen (AP)
A	20	Parr, Tyler
	21	Siepmann, Grayden (OA)
A	23	Calvert, Rowan
	25	Williams, Cooper
	26	Harsanyi, Hayden
	27	Laing, Hunter
	29	Scott, Tanner (OA)
	37	Kachkowski, Jack
	52	Tastad, Morgan
RES	72	James, William
	77	Mathies, Kazden
	86	Lewandowski, David

SASKATOON PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	20	5:00	Major-Fighting	7:52			7:52	12:52
2nd	21	2:00	Tripping	6:52	1		6:52	8:52
2nd	52	2:00	High Sticking	18:44	1		18:44	0:44
3rd	72	2:00	Hooking	12:58			12:58	14:58
3rd	9	2:00	Roughing	12:58			12:58	14:58
3rd	37	2:00	Kneeing	14:52	1		14:52	15:40
3rd	37	5:00	Major-Fighting	14:52			14:52	19:52
3rd	23	2:00	Roughing	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	23	10:00	10-Minute Misconduct	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	33	2:00	Leaving Crease	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	21	2:00	Cross Checking	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	21	10:00	10-Minute Misconduct	20:00			20:00	20:00

LETHBRIDGE LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Cleaver, Koen
G	35	Unger, Jackson
A	2	McCutcheon, Logan (OA)
	4	Adair, Carsen
C	8	Chadwick, Noah
	9	Doyle, Tristen
	10	Smith, Shane
	11	Cozens, Luke
	12	Norrie, Cameron
	15	Gizowski, Kooper
	16	Daneault, Easton (AP)
RES	17	Anderson, Kai (AP)
A	19	Edwards, Brayden (OA)
	20	Petersen, Chase
	21	Wilson, Anthony
	22	Price, Caden
	24	Port, Vojtech
	25	Andresen, Kash
	26	Johnson, Trae
	29	Yager, Brayden

LETHBRIDGE PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	8	5:00	Major-Fighting	7:52			7:52	12:52
1st	12	2:00	Cross Checking	10:26	1		10:26	12:26
2nd	21	2:00	High Sticking	2:40	1		2:40	6:40
2nd	21	2:00	High Sticking	2:40	1		4:40	6:40
2nd	15	2:00	High Sticking	13:37	1		13:37	14:27
2nd	25	2:00	Tripping	15:45	1		15:45	17:45
3rd	10	2:00	Roughing	12:58			12:58	20:00
3rd	10	2:00	Roughing	12:58			14:58	20:00
3rd	10	10:00	10-Minute Misconduct	12:58			16:58	20:00
3rd	22	5:00	Major-Fighting	14:52			14:52	19:52
3rd	19	2:00	Roughing	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	19	10:00	10-Minute Misconduct	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	26	2:00	Roughing	20:00			20:00	20:00
3rd	26	10:00	10-Minute Misconduct	20:00			20:00	20:00

SASKATOON Goals				SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus)					LETHBRIDGE PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time		G-As1-As2
1st	2:24		27	13	25	27	37	86	9	21	24	25	26
1st	5:20		27-3	2	3	25	27	86	4	9	10	11	16
2nd	14:27	PP	77-25-2
3rd	8:54		26-23-2	2	20	23	26	37	8	9	11	17	20

LETHBRIDGE Goals				LETHBRIDGE PLAYERS (plus)						SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time		G-As1-As2
2nd	13:19		10-25-8	8	9	10	11	25		20	21	23	26	37
3rd	15:40	PP	19-29-15
3rd	18:12		15-19-29	2	8	15	19	26	29	21	25	27	52	86

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
SASKATOON	1 / 5
LETHBRIDGE	1 / 3

PENALTY SUMMARY
SASKATOON	46 min / 12 inf
LETHBRIDGE	58 min / 14 inf

POINT SUMMARY
SASKATOON	4 G + 5 A = 9 Pts
LETHBRIDGE	3 G + 6 A = 9 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	Total
SASKATOON	2	1	1	4
LETHBRIDGE	0	1	2	3

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	Tot.	On	Off
SAS – McCallum (60:00) (W)	9	12	8	29	/0:00	3rd/20:00
LET – Unger (57:49) (L)	4	10	6	20	/0:00	3rd/17:49
LET – Unger (0:31) (L)	0	0	0	0	/18:12	3rd/18:43

Stars of the Game	TIME OF GAME:
SAS – 27 Laing	Start:	7:04 PM
LET – 8 Chadwick	End:	9:41 PM
SAS – 2 Saunderson	Attendance:	3343

OFFICIALS

Referee: Alex Homer (49)

Referee: Curtis Johanson (80)

Linesmen: Jacob Hicks (85)

Linesmen: Marcus Gerow (139)

CERTIFIED CORRECT

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