Blades Solve Broncos. Date with the Tigers Saturday.

The first game without Teigan Zahn was tonight. As you may already know he suffered a broken leg in the last game. According to the paper he did have surgery to have screws and a plate put in his leg.

I would say it would be wise to call up an older defencemen in the system,but I am not sure what the rules say about that.


Ok onto the game. It sounded as if it was a very close checking game.


The Blades did manage to squeeze out a win when Charles Inglis scored a shorthanded goal to give the Blades a 4-3 lead.


The Blades record is now 32-9-1-3. The Blades will travel back to Saskatoon and prepare to face the Medicine Hat Tigers on Saturday night.

Blades Be-Little Hitmen....Gogol and co. look GREAT!!!!!!!!

I was excited that I was able to see all 3 of the new players in action tonight and they all looked really good.

Steven Stanford started for the 2nd straight game. He played a good game tonight stopping 37 of 38 shots. Meanwhile his counterpart Martin Jones faced 29 shots but let in 4 goals.

I am not sure if the goalies are being rotated but I will say this: I think Steven Stanford is making a case to be the #1.


Teigan Zahn left the game and he was in some obvious pain. I am not too sure what his injury may be but it is a good thing that the Blades have some versitile players that can play 2 positions.

The bridge city bunch jumped out to a 3-0 lead but they still had to play well defensivly and I think they did that. Both Curt Gogol and Sena Acolatse found dance partners for this game,and both of them held their own in the fighting department tonight.

I noticed a couple of things about Marek Viedensky.....He also wears #19 and is from Slovakia. Former Blade Milan Kytnar shares these two characteristics with the new Blades Import.


Here is something that you may thought would not happen again: The glass shattering. Well it did exactly that in the 3rd period when a Blade was hit into the corner boards and BAM,glass was everywhere. The delay was about 10 or 15 minutes.


The Hitmen pulled their goalie with about 2 minutes and change left in the 3rd period. Newcomer Sena Acolatse shot the puck into the yawning cage putting the game away and making the final 4-1 for the home team.

The Calgary Hitmen have a couple of young towers on defence both 16 year olds and over 6'2'.

The Hardest Working Player was Travis Toomey who also came away with 2nd star honours,and the hit of the game was thrown by 20 year old defencemen Sam Klassen.

The 3 stars of the game were: 1st star: Steven Stanford,2nd star Travis Toomey and the 3rd star was Tyler Fiddler of the Hitmen.

With this win the Blades increase their lead and improve their record to 31-9-1-3. They also have the 4th fewest goals against in the WHL at 124.


The Blades are ranked at #6 this week in the CHL top 10.

The Blades will visit Swift Current to battle the Broncos on Friday night and then return back to the CUC for a game against Emerson Etem and the rest of the Medicine Hat Tigers.

Blades VS Broncos..... Did I miss a good game??

I was only able to catch parts of the game on the radio,so this will be short. The Blades took a 2 goal lead in the 1st period. That is all I knew of the score when I could listen. It sounds like the new guys are doing well,I will be able to witness in person tonight what they can do.

Both Curt Gogol and Marek Viedensky registered their 1st points as a member of the Blades and for Gogol it was even better I would think. If I remember correctly it was his 100th WHL game and his 2nd WHL goal and 1st point since last season or something like that.

The Blades did hold on to beat the Broncos 3-2.

Which gives them 30 wins on the season. The Blades next game is Wednesday(today) at the CUC against the Calgary Hitmen,who have acquired some talented bodies as well. It should be a good game.

New Look Blades Face Broncos Tonight.

The bridge city bunch will have 3 players that they acquired in trades on Sunday in the line-up tonight. Those players are Sena Acolatse who will wear #11,Marek Viedensky who will wear #19 and Curt Gogol who will wear #16. The Blades will be looking for their 30th win of the season tonight. I could not get out of work so I will have to wait until Wednesday night to see the new guys.

I hope the new players can fit well with the Blades.

Blades add an Import Forward and another Gritty Defencemen. Johnson reassigned.

Today,the Blades have filled their 2nd Import spot by acquiring Marek Viedensky from the P.G Cougars. (I was hoping for Vincour out of Edmonton) in exchange for 15 year old goaltender Tyler Santos and a 3rd round pick in 2010 (the Blades still have a 3 round pick) So it is ok to trade that pick since they still have one in that round.

The Blades also traded for Kelowna Rocket Defencemen Curt Gogol and a conditional pick in 2012. The Blades gave up prospect Colton Sissions and a 3rd round pick.

Now the Blades are continuing to add tough bodies in Gogol & Acolatse to the roster and maybe Viedenski was that goal scorer the Blades were able to get?

Some other deals are not usually announced until after the deadline. So we shall see if anything else happens.

Braden Johnson has been reassogned to the Saskatoon Blazers.

A move that needed to be made with bringing in 2 forwards.

Good trades but I do not think this really puts them over the top. I am going to go see what else happened for trades in the WHL.

The new look Blades will host Swift Current on Tuesday night.

Blades lose to Hurricanes.

Honestly tonight I could not figure out what was going on. How did this team win 5 out of 6 away from home and then be controlled and run into a hot goaltender on a slightly weaker team?

Things were not going the Blades way this game. Sure they had their good moments when there cycle game was flawless and they controlled the puck well.

The Blades also took bad penalties at times and could not take advantage of the power plays that they had. The Hurricanes went up 3-0 and won the game 3-1.

I am pretty sure we will see Sena Acolatse in the line-up on Tuesday. Jyri Niemi was getting his shot away but he was not able to keep it low for some reason.

It will be interesting to see what happens on Sunday. I do not think the Blades are done trading yet. We will soon know.

Blades Trade Gallimore......

The bridge city bunch have made a trade with the Seattle Thunderbirds ( a team which they recently played)

The Blades acquired Sena Acolatse in exchange for Burke Gallimore.

I am not to sure what to think of this trade just yet.

He has 22pts in 39 games so far,he is a -14 with 35 minutes in penalties. I think his plus minus will improve coming to the Blades now. Welcome Sena and good luck Burke in Seattle!!!!

I hope he is in the line-up tomorrow night!!!!