WHL Saskatoon Blades

Blades Receive Little Love In Cranbrook

Published on February 14, 2010 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Saskatoon Blades News Release


The Saskatoon Blades finished off their three-games-in-three-nights road trip come to an end with a 6-3 loss to the Kootenay Ice on Sunday night.

Gaelan Patterson (Saskatoon, SK), Brent Benson (Weyburn, SK), and Jeremy Boyer (Saskatoon, SK) scored for the Blades, who saw their five-game winning streak come to an end with the loss.

Kootenay - 1st - Kevin King (Dustin Sylvester, Steele Boomer) 16:34 The Ice went up 1-0 before the end of the first period on the 21st of the season from King. After the puck was knocked loose in the Blades' crease, King jammed away and put it past goaltender Adam Morrison (White Rock, BC) to give the Ice the early lead.

Saskatoon - 2nd - Patterson (Stefan Elliott) 2:02 sh Patterson tied things up early in the middle frame on his 20th of the season and 5th shorthanded marker on the campaign. The 19-year-old carried the puck down the left wing on a 2-on-1 and elected to shoot, beating goaltender Todd Mathews.

Kootenay - 2nd - Jesse Ismond (Hayden Rintoul, Max Reinhart) 2:54 pp The Ice moved back out in front on the first of two on the night from Ismond, a native of Kindersley. Kootenay's power play worked it around before it ended up on the stick of Ismond, who beat Morrison with his 18th of the year.

Kootenay - 2nd - Ismond (Joe Antilla, Dominik Pacovsky) 7:12 Ismond made it a 3-1 hockey game on his 19th of the season less than five minutes later. The 18-year-old fired a shot that was redirected into the Blades' net off of a body in front.

Kootenay - 2nd - King (Boomer) 11:57 pp King gave the Ice a three-goal lead on his second of the night a little under five minutes later. The now 20-year-old took a feed from Boomer and put it home for his 22nd on the campaign.

Kootenay - 2nd - Matt Fraser (Pacovsky, Luke Paulsen) 19:11 pp The Ice took a 5-1 lead with 49 seconds remaining in the second period on Fraser's 27th of the season. Again on a goalmouth scramble Kootenay was successful as Fraser jammed at a loose puck and put it past Morrison into the net.

Saskatoon - 3rd - Benson (Walker Wintoneak, Tyler Kizuik) 8:28 Benson made it 5-2 on his 7th goal of his rookie campaign for the Blades. The 16-year-old pounced on a rebound in front of the Kootenay net and hammered it past Mathews.

Saskatoon - 3rd - Boyer (Lukas Sutter, Travis Toomey) 9:15 Boyer brought the Blades back within two on his 9th of the season. The veteran forward hit the scoresheet after taking a feed in front from Sutter (Lethbridge, AB), a 16-year-old call-up who earned his first WHL point with the assist.

Kootenay - 3rd - Boomer 15:18 Boomer halted the Blades' comeback with his 23rd goal of the year. The 19-year-old blocked a shot from a Blades defenseman in his own zone, moved in all alone, and beat Morrison.

The 18-year-old Morrison stopped 30 of 36 shots in a losing cause in the Blades net. Mathews turned aside 31 of 34 shots in the Kootenay net to earn the victory.

Final score Kootenay Ice 6, Saskatoon Blades 3.

With the loss, the Blades' record drops to 39-13-3-3 for 84 points and puts the team back into a tie for first in the Eastern Conference following a Brandon Wheat Kings victory also on Sunday night. The Ice, meanwhile, picked up its third consecutive victory with the win and takes its season mark to 37-17-3-2 for 79 points, good enough for a five-point cushion on the Medicine Hat Tigers for fourth in the Eastern Conference.

The Blades have a busy week ahead with a trio of games at home at Credit Union Centre. On Wednesday night, the Red Deer Rebels are in town for the final time this season. The Blades then match up with the Vancouver Giants on Friday night. Finally, the week wraps up with the highly anticipated "First Nations & Métis Night" on Saturday evening when the Brandon Wheat Kings are in town.

Game time all three nights is 7:05 pm. Tickets are available online at ticketmaster.ca, by calling 938-7800, or by visiting any Ticketmaster outlet.

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