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Posts About "Saskatoon Blades"

Reviewing Saskatoon Blades Trades at the 2018 Deadline

Reviewing Saskatoon Blades Trades at the 2018 Deadline

November 27th, 2020 Saskatoon Blades general manager Colin Priestner was moving and shaking at the 2018 Western Hockey League trade deadline. With the Blades in the midst of a mediocre 2017-18 season and likely to miss the playoffs for a fifth straight season, Priestner executed a series of bold moves that would set Saskatoon up for success, both in the...
5 Saskatoon Blades Who Became NHL Head Coaches

5 Saskatoon Blades Who Became NHL Head Coaches

November 22nd, 2020 Inspired by the Saskatoon Blades' recent hiring of former Hockey Canada video coach Ryan Dietrich to head coach Mitch Love’s staff for the 2020-21 season, we are going to look back at five former Blades’ players who later coached in the NHL. The focus of this story is the five well-known current or one-time NHL head coaches...
Memorial Cup Champ Wacey Rabbit Mentors Indigenous Youth

Memorial Cup Champ Wacey Rabbit Mentors Indigenous Youth

October 30th, 2020 Wacey Rabbit enjoyed a distinguished five-year Western Hockey League career with the Saskatoon Blades and Vancouver Giants before embarking on a professional career that has taken him around the world and is now entering its fourteenth season. Along the way, the former captain of the Saskatoon Blades and 2007 Memorial Cup Champion...
Sharks' Tristen Robins Follows Father's Path Through Blades

Sharks' Tristen Robins Follows Father's Path Through Blades

October 26th, 2020 Tristen Robins realized his boyhood dream earlier this month, when the Saskatoon Blades’ star centerman was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the second round, 56th overall in the 2020 NHL Draft. Coming off a breakout 2019-20 Western Hockey League season where he totaled 33 goals and 73 points, THW’s Carson Shmyr wrote about how...
Legends Behind Saskatoon Blades' Retired Jersey Numbers

Legends Behind Saskatoon Blades' Retired Jersey Numbers

October 22nd, 2020 There is no more definitive way for a player’s legacy with his team to be cemented than to have his jersey number retired and raised to the rafters. The Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League (WHL) have bestowed that honour to six of their greatest alumni, having removed five jersey numbers from circulation in the...
Tristen Robins Making an Impact for Saskatoon Blades on Draft Night

Tristen Robins Making an Impact for Saskatoon Blades on Draft Night

October 9th, 2020 This time last year, Tristen Robins was a name that very few people knew, let alone attached to a potential NHL Draft selection. Shadowed by Chicago Blackhawk and 2019 third overall NHL pick Kirby Dach, Robins was a prospect considered to be on the back burner of many scouts' minds. Tristen Robins of the Saskatoon Blades. (Steve...
Saskatoon Blades' 5 Greatest Western Hockey League Seasons

Saskatoon Blades' 5 Greatest Western Hockey League Seasons

October 1st, 2020 Established in 1964, the Saskatoon Blades are one of the oldest franchises in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) behind the Regina Pats who were founded in 1917. Accordingly, the Blades have a rich and storied history filled with enduring moments and great players from the past seven decades.  Though the Blades first became a...
Saskatoon Blades Legacy Began In Western Canada Hockey League

Saskatoon Blades Legacy Began In Western Canada Hockey League

September 13th, 2020 As the landscape of junior hockey has grown and changed through the decades, so too have the Saskatoon Blades. For 10 seasons, the Blades competed in the Western Canada Hockey League (1968-78), the predecessor to the modern-day Western Hockey League. In that time, the Blades transformed from a young franchise struggling to forge an...
Kirby Dach Headlines Saskatoon Blades Alumni Inside NHL Bubble

Kirby Dach Headlines Saskatoon Blades Alumni Inside NHL Bubble

August 8th, 2020 For the first time ever, the dog days of August have arrived in the NHL. The excitement for hockey’s return after a hiatus of more than four months extends beyond the fan bases of the 24 teams involved, including fans of the Western Hockey League’s Saskatoon Blades. Five former Blades have participated in the Qualifying Round...
Chase Wouters to Become Saskatoon Blades' Longest-Serving Captain

Chase Wouters to Become Saskatoon Blades' Longest-Serving Captain

July 23rd, 2020 The past two seasons have brought a great deal of change to the Saskatoon Blades but one of the constants throughout has been their on-ice leader. Chase Wouters played his fourth full Western Hockey League season in 2019-20, and his second as captain of the Blades. As Saskatoon's first-round bantam draft selection, 18th overall in...
Saskatoon Blades' Top-5 NHL Alumni

Saskatoon Blades' Top-5 NHL Alumni

July 19th, 2020 The Saskatoon Blades have a history that dates back to the 1960s in the Western Hockey League and its predecessors. Though that history is not steeped in postseason team success, with no Ed Chynoweth Cup or Memorial Cup titles since their inception in 1964, fans in the Bridge City have witnessed the junior careers of numerous future...
5 Saskatoon Blades Make Cut in NHL Central Scouting Draft Rankings

5 Saskatoon Blades Make Cut in NHL Central Scouting Draft Rankings

July 8th, 2020 The 2019-20 Western Hockey League season provided a glimpse of what is to come on the ice for the Saskatoon Blades in the coming seasons. After the emergence of the team’s young core this past season, expectations are high for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, which could feature the most Blades content in more than 30 years.  Five...
Saskatoon Blades Swing Big at 2020 CHL Import Draft

Saskatoon Blades Swing Big at 2020 CHL Import Draft

July 2nd, 2020 The Saskatoon Blades had a chance to take a big swing with their first-round selection in the 2020 Canadian Hockey League Import Draft on Tuesday, and they did just that. With the 33rd-overall pick, the Western Hockey League club took highly touted prospect Brad Lambert from Finland....
Saskatoon Blades Goaltenders Could Put Team Over the Top in 2020-21

Saskatoon Blades Goaltenders Could Put Team Over the Top in 2020-21

June 28th, 2020 The Saskatoon Blades are heading into the 2020-21 season with confidence in net with the ability to return veteran goalies Nolan Maier and Koen MacInnes. Quality goaltending can be, and often-times is, a game-changer in junior hockey. A top-flight netminder can steal games for a lesser-talented club and can cover up flaws and...
Saskatoon Blades Coach Love Is Pulling All the Right Strings

Saskatoon Blades Coach Love Is Pulling All the Right Strings

June 25th, 2020 Mitch Love made a name for himself as a rough and tumble defenceman in the Western Hockey League (WHL), and he is doing the same now as head coach of the Saskatoon Blades. Coach Mitch Love of the Saskatoon Blades (Steve Hiscock/Saskatoon Blades) A product of the town of Quesnel, BC, a town located a little more than 100...
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