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Preview: Blades Host Americans for Hockey Night in Saskatoon

November 17, 2018 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Saskatoon Blades News Release


Tri-City Americans (12-7-0-0) at Saskatoon Blades (13-7-2-0)

Date | Time | Place Saturday, Nov. 17th | 7:00 p.m | SaskTel Centre

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Doors open at 6:00pm, puck drops at 7:00pm

Tonight... The Blades play their last Saturday home game of 2018 in the only meeting of the regular season with the Tri-City Americans. It's game #2 of a 3-game home stand for the Blades before heading out on their biennial B.C. road trip beginning next Saturday in Prince George. Meanwhile, this is the final stop for Tri-City on their East Division road trip, and their 11th straight road game. So far on their trip through the East Division they're 2-3... the Blades are 1-1 against U.S. Division teams this season.

The last game... Nolan Maier made 37 saves to earn his 11th win of the season in a 4-2 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Tuesday night at SaskTel Centre. Max Gerlach (14), Kyle Crnkovic (1), Chase Wouters (3), and Kirby Dach (12) all scored for the Blades, Eric Florchuk had 2 assists. Meanwhile, the Americans are coming off a 3-1 loss last night in Prince Albert to the Raiders. Krystof Hrabik (6) scored the lone goal for Tri-City... Beck Warm stopped 27/29 shots in goal.

Head to head... The Blades won last season's meeting in Kennewick, WA., by a score of 5-2. Over the past 10 seasons, the Blades and Americans are 5-5. Kirby Dach's 35 points lead the Blades' offense while 20-year-old Nolan Yaremko's 26 points are tops in Tri-City. Saskatoon holds the advantage in special teams with a combined success rate of 103.3% compared to Tri-City's 95.1%.

Who's hot... Nolan Maier has won his 3 starts with a stat line of .963SV% - 1.33GAA and 104 saves, and was named 1st star in all 3 games. '01 F Kirby Dach is riding a 5-game point streak with 2G-6A. Max Gerlach has 6 goals in his last 5GP. Saskatoon's PK is 16/17 in its last 3 games. Kyle Crnkovic scored his 1st WHL goal on Tuesday in his 1st game back from the World U17 Challenge with Team Canada.

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