Blades March Towards Playoffs Hits Road Block in Moose Jaw

After coming close the night before, the Moose Jaw Warriors put together their first winning effort in over a month, with the Saskatoon Blades being the unwitting victims of a 6-2 setback on Saturday night.

Former Prince Albert forward Krzysztof Macias scored three times to pace Moose Jaw to just their 12th win of the season, ending a 12-game winless streak. The Bridge City Bunch out-shot the Warriors 38-22, but saw their Magic Number to clinch a W-H-L Eastern Conference playoff spot stay at seven points as Red Deer clobbered Kelowna 10-2. The Blue and Gold held an early territorial edge, but couldn’t sole Matthew Hutchison until after Macias and Lynden Lakovic staked Moose Jaw to a 2-0 lead. Six different Warriors’ skaters posted multi-point games. Hunter Laing and Jordan Martin scored for the 30-20-7 Blades, who are right back in action Sunday against the Edmonton Oil Kings at SaskTel Centre. First faceoff is 4 o’clock with CJWW’s broadcast beginning at 3:45. 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…..

SASKATOON Goals SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus) MOOSE JAW PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time  G-As1-As2 1st 16:14  27-21-25 21 25 27 52 86 4 15 16 19 21 2nd 6:00  3-2-20 2 3 20 26 86 4 20 21 37 43

MOOSE JAW Goals MOOSE JAW PLAYERS (plus) SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus) Per. Time  G-As1-As2 1st 9:12  43-21 10 20 21 37 43 3 21 25 27 86 1st 12:04  17-20-14 2 14 17 20 21 3 25 37 72 86 2nd 1:33  43-4 2 4 20 37 43 13 25 27 29 37 2nd 15:03 PP  43-21-20 3rd 8:58 PP  20-17-21 3rd 16:43 EN  17-4-14 4 10 14 17 37 20 21 23 29 72 86