Blades Back On Home Ice.

Tomorrow will be the 1st Blades home game of 2010. It is against the Lethbridge Hurricanes. After a VERY SUCCESSFUL U.S Division road trip posting a 5-1 record,the Blades will look to continue that success. They have a league leading record of 28-8-1-3. I am excited to watch the Blades again after what was a long break.

The WHL trade deadline is on Sunday in the afternoon and I think that the Blades are trying to make a deal or two and hopefully they do.

It would help the team if they had a game breaker Like Jordan Eberle (FOR EXAMPLE) He will not be traded to the Blades so they will have to look elsewhere. I hope the Blades at least make a couple deals.

Since I have nothing better to do tonight I will probably watch the Vancouver Giants VS Edmonton Oil Kings game on Shaw TV.

Have a good weekend everyone.

More Canada VS USA Pictures. Blades Lose to Ice.

As promised here are more pictures from the gold medal game and bronze medal game as well.

The Blades had a very good road trip only losing 1 game out of 6 on their road trip They lost 8-1 to the Kootenay Ice. They need a break,I think they are a tired group... ANYWAY A JOB WELL DONE!!!!

Saturday is a game against the Lethbridge Hurricanes @ the CUC, we will see how big the crowd is for the game.

HEARTBREAK...Congrats USA..... Sweden Wins Bronze. Blades Beat Spokane....

This game was possibly the best hockey game I have seen live. The game was even pretty much scored goal for goal,no two goal leads until the USA went up 5-3. Canada did not stop when they were down though and once they scored that goal to pull them within one of tying the game it seemed to give Canada the momentum they needed to tie the game. Team USA played a great game and was not shaken by all of the razzing done by the fans.

In my opinion Jake Allen did not play that great,he was decent at best. Team USA is full of talent and unfortunately only one by the name of Jerry Di'Amigo is a Leafs prospect. Nazem Kadri should be solid when ever he makes the jump to the NHL.

Canada lost 6-5 in Overtime.

A silver medal is still ok but I know everyone wanted a 6th straight Gold.

In the Bronze medal game Sweden blew Switzerland out of the water and won in convincing fashion 10-4.

I just checked the score of the Blades/Cheifs game and the Blades won 5-4 which gives them a 5-0 record so they swept the US division!!!!!! Have they even done that before? 1 game to go in Cranbrook before playing a home game at the CUC (a place that was my 2nd home for the past 2 weeks. I am looking forward to my having my regular seat back though.

I took way more pictures than this but here are 4 pictures for now.

Russia VS Finland game & pictures.

There was 3 current WHLer's, 5 current or former WHL'ers on Team Finland(6 if you count Swift Current Bronco property Joni Orto.) I do not think he will ever suit up for the Broncos but you never know.

Only 2 current WHL players actually played though . Toni Rajala & Jyri Niemi.

This game was a close game all the way through. The Russians are a good team,this game was up there with the USA VS Sweden game and both were good games!!!!!! Both teams traded goals many times throughout the game. It is too bad that there are few if any Russian players in the WHL....they are good players and would make the WHL a better league,and I am not saying that it is not a great league already but adding Russians to the rest of the import mix would be neat to see.

Ok time for a Blades spotlight in this game.... Jyri Niemi (who is the captain of team Finland) was able to unload his cannon of a shot (maybe not at full speed) but it did beat the Russian goalie.

The Finns were able to beat the Russians and claim 5th place but they went to war to do it. The final score was 4-3.

Here are pictures:

I know the picture on the right is not Finland/Russia related but so cool to see!!!!!!
















On the final day of the 2010 world junior tournement Canada will play USA for Gold and Switzerland will play Sweden for Bronze.


This tournament was a great success in my veiw. I loved every second of it!!!!!!

Canada Still perfect at the World Juniors,Blades still unbeaten as well!!!!!!

Team Canada played Switzerland and this game was alot closer at the start,however Canada did score first.

Canada had a very effective cycle game in the offensive zone and that most likely wore the Swiss team down.

The goalie for Switzerland Benjamin Conz is a VERY good goaltender,he faces alot of shot each night and keeps his team in the game(as much as he can.) I am surprised that he is undrafted.

Nazem Kadri continued to have a battle going all game long with Nino Niederreitter. Speaking of the LEAFS Brian Burke was in the CUC for both games watching Nazem Kadri and Jerry D'Amigo and every time they showed Burke on the jumbotron he was booed. C'mon I know that MANY people HATE the Maple Leafs but at least show some class!!!!!!!! It is not easy being an NHL general manager.

Ok back to the game!!! Canada won the game 6-1. I think that Canada will play USA in the gold medal game.... someone please correct me if I am wrong.

In the second game USA VS Sweden. The game was close until the 3rd period when the Americans put the game out of reach by scoring an empty net goal, defeating the Swedish team by a count of 5-2. In fact the Swedish team held the US in check pretty much most of the game but in the final period it started to slip away for them. Leafs prospect Jerry D'Amigo looked good in this game and was named the player of the game for his team.

The Blades played Tri City in their 2nd last game against the US teams on their trip,Gaelan Patterson scored a hat trick as the Blades went on to beat the Americans (from Tri City ......well Kenniwick Washington, if you want to be 100% correct.) by a score of 6-4. The Blades will play out the remainder of the trip in Spokane on Tuesday and against Kootenay in Cranbrook on Wednesday.

Here are pictures from the 4pm and 8pm games on sunday:

Blades remain perfect on US trip. Austria VS Slovakia Pictures

All 3 of the games have been won by the road team the Blades and by 1 goal every game. The Blades came back to beat the Winterhawks by a score of 6-5 in Overtime.

The Blades play Tri City tomorrow,Spokane on Tuesday and Kootenay on Wednesday.

I attended the Austria/Slovakia. The Austrian team is very small,the only player that is big was a 6'5 forward and Stefan Ulmer of the Spokane Cheifs played alot in this game,Slovakia in the end was too much but Austria held their own and kept the game close.

Canada plays Switzerland at 4pm. I think it will be a sell out and the 50-50 will be big.

2 for 2!!!!!!!! Canada Beats USA,Blades Trim Silvertips

Wow what a game at the CUC tonight!!! The game was even early on with both teams trading goals twice. The USA the outplayed the Canadians scoring 2 more making the score 4-2.

Canada knew that they had work to do so in with 20 minutes left Canada did what they do best: score goals. They scored 2 to tie the game at 4.

Canada did score a 5th goal but it was disallowed. So the two rivals went into overtime then a shoot-out. Every shooter that shot was bang on scoring but Jake Allen made 1 big save and that proved to swing Canada over the top and Brandon Kozun streaked in and scored the winner.

With this win Canada will play sunday @ 4:00.

Here are some pictures that I took:

Tonight the Blades played the Silvertips in Everett Washington and they skated away with a 2-1 victory.... Good to see them play well on the start of this 6 game road trip...hopefully this continues.

Happy new year to all my blog readers.

The Blades will play in Portland against the Winterhawks.

I'M OUT!!!!!!