2019 Eastern Conference sf game 5 – Friday, April 12 th , 2019 @ 7:00Pm, Art Hauser Centre Series: 2-2 Regular Season Saskatoon Blades (45-15-8-0 – 98pts) 2 nd – East Division 2 nd – Eastern Conference PP – 65/297 = 21.9% (10 th in WHL) PK – 193/237 = 81.4% (5 th in WHL) Final 10 games: (8-2-0-0) Regular Season Prince Albert Raiders (54-10-2-2 – 112pts) 1 st – East Division 1 st – Eastern Conference PP – 58/264 = 22% (9 th in WHL) PK – 252/290 = 86.9% (1 st in WHL) Final 10 games: (7-2-1-0) 2019 Playoffs Saskatoon Blades (6-2) PP – 4/30 = 13.3% PK – 23/27 = 85.2% OT Record: 2-0 GF: 21 GA: 18 2019 Playoffs Prince Albert Raiders (6-2) PP – 5/29 = 17.2% PK – 22/27 = 81.5% OT Record: 0-0 GF: 27 GA: 14 Tonight… The Blades return to Prince Albert for game five after winning back-to-back on home ice in games three and four to tie the series. The Blades will look to do something they have yet to do this season; win at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert. The last game…Dante Hannoun (4) scored short-handed for Prince Albert in the first period before the Blades went on to score four unanswered goals en route to a 4-1 victory in game 4. Max Gerlach (6) had a goal and 2 assists, Tristen Robins (2), Kyle Crnkovic (2), and Eric Florchuk (2) also scored for Saskatoon, Dawson Davidson had 3 assists, and Nolan Maier was the 1 st star of the game for a second straight night thanks to a 43 save effort… the draft eligible netminder allowed just 1 goal in the last two games of the series. Head to head… PA has outscored Saskatoon 10-8 in the first four games combined. Prince Albert is 3/16 on the power play in the series, Saskatoon is 2/13. Dawson Davidson—the Blades leading scorer in the regular season—leads Saskatoon’s offense in the series with 5 assists. Sean Montgomery and Brett Leason lead the way for Prince Albert with 4 points each. Nolan Maier is 2-2 in the series with a .935SV% while Ian Scott is also 2-2 with a .939SV%. Saskatoon went 2-5-1-0 in the 8-game regular season series against the Raiders. The two teams closed out the regular season with a home-and- home series; the home side won in each game… Saskatoon 3-2 and Prince Albert 3-1. The Blades had the better special teams in the season series going 8/39 (20.5%) on the PP and 27/32 (84.4%) on the PK. Max Gerlach (3G-4A) and Dawson Davidson (2G-5A) each had 7 points in the season series for Saskatoon, Nolan Maier started 5 of the 8 games and went 2-2-1-0 with a .891SV%… Dorrin Luding was 0-3 with a .904SV%. Noah Gregor led the Raiders’ offense in the series with 13 points in 7 games, Cole Fonstad had 12 points in 8 games, and Ian Scott went 4-2 in 6 starts with a .938SV%.
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2019 Eastern Conference sf game 5 – Friday, April 12th, 2019 @ 7:00Pm, Art Hauser Centre Series: 2-2
Regular Season Saskatoon Blades (45-15-8-0 – 98pts) 2nd – East Division 2nd – Eastern Conference PP – 65/297 = 21.9% (10th in WHL) PK – 193/237 = 81.4% (5th in WHL) Final 10 games: (8-2-0-0)
Regular Season Prince Albert Raiders (54-10-2-2 – 112pts) 1st – East Division 1st – Eastern Conference PP – 58/264 = 22% (9th in WHL) PK – 252/290 = 86.9% (1st in WHL) Final 10 games: (7-2-1-0)
2019 Playoffs Prince Albert Raiders (6-2) PP – 5/29 = 17.2% PK – 22/27 = 81.5% OT Record: 0-0 GF: 27 GA: 14
Tonight… The Blades return to Prince Albert for game five after winning back-to-back on home ice in games three and four to tie the series. The Blades will look to do something they have yet to do this season; win at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert. The last game…Dante Hannoun (4) scored short-handed for Prince Albert in the first period before the Blades went on to score four unanswered goals en route to a 4-1 victory in game 4. Max Gerlach (6) had a goal and 2 assists, Tristen Robins (2), Kyle Crnkovic (2), and Eric Florchuk (2) also scored for Saskatoon, Dawson Davidson had 3 assists, and Nolan Maier was the 1st star of the game for a second straight night thanks to a 43 save effort… the draft eligible netminder allowed just 1 goal in the last two games of the series. Head to head… PA has outscored Saskatoon 10-8 in the first four games combined. Prince Albert is 3/16 on the power play in the series, Saskatoon is 2/13. Dawson Davidson—the Blades leading scorer in the regular season—leads Saskatoon’s offense in the series with 5 assists. Sean Montgomery and Brett Leason lead the way for Prince Albert with 4 points each. Nolan Maier is 2-2 in the series with a .935SV% while Ian Scott is also 2-2 with a .939SV%. Saskatoon went 2-5-1-0 in the 8-game regular season series against the Raiders. The two teams closed out the regular season with a home-and-home series; the home side won in each game… Saskatoon 3-2 and Prince Albert 3-1. The Blades had the better special teams in the season series going 8/39 (20.5%) on the PP and 27/32 (84.4%) on the PK. Max Gerlach (3G-4A) and Dawson Davidson (2G-5A) each had 7 points in the season series for Saskatoon, Nolan Maier started 5 of the 8 games and went 2-2-1-0 with a .891SV%… Dorrin Luding was 0-3 with a .904SV%. Noah Gregor led the Raiders’ offense in the series with 13 points in 7 games, Cole Fonstad had 12 points in 8 games, and Ian Scott went 4-2 in 6 starts with a .938SV%.
Nolie the Goalie… Nolan Maier was named the WHL’s Goaltender of the Month for March on Monday. The 2001 born product of Yorkton, SK went 9-0 in March with a 1.64GAA, .930SV%, and 2 shutouts. Since January 1st, Maier was one of the hottest netminders in the WHL with a 19-2-2 record in his final 23 regular season starts to go along with a .918SV% and 2.40GAA and 2 shutouts. Maier piled up 36 wins which was the 3rd most in the WHL. The 2001 born sophomore finished with a stat line of 2.63GAA | .910SV% | 36-10-4-0 and 4 shutouts. Season Summary… Saskatoon finished the 2018-19 season having won 15 of their last 17 games to hit 98 points on the season. This is their 7th best total in franchise history. 20-year-old defenseman Dawson Davidson led the team in scoring from the blue line with 75 points. Davidson was named to the Eastern Conference’s 1st All-Star team, and finished tied for the most points by WHL defensemen. Max Gerlach finished one point behind Davidson with 74, including 42 goals which tied for 6th most in the WHL. Top CHL prospect for the 2019 NHL Draft, Kirby Dach, finished 3rd in teams scoring with 73 points, and had the highest points-per-game on the Blades roster at 1.18PPG. Mr. 300… Dawson Davidson finished his WHL regular season career with 301 games played. Not only did Davidson have an impressive year with 75 points, he is also the owner of the longest assist streak in the WHL this season at 15 games and 24 assists. Had 2 goals and 5 assists in season series versus Prince Albert. Draft watch… Kirby Dach is ranked #2 among North American skaters behind only consensus #1 pick Jack Hughes. Emil Malysjev is ranked 208th among North American skaters. Nolan Maier was rated a ‘C’ in the September rankings and finished 3rd in the WHL with 36 wins this season. Maier also won a gold medal alongside Dach with Team Canada at the 2018 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup in Edmonton, Alta. Chase Wouters went undrafted last June but did attend Tampa Bay Lightning’s summer, rookie, and main camps. WHL Playoff experience prior to 2019
Player GP G A PTS #9 Max Gerlach, RW 11 5 4 9
#14 Gary Haden, LW 6 2 0 2
#17 Eric Florchuk, C 2 0 0 0
#28 Cyle McNabb, C/RW 6 0 0 0
#39 Riley McKay, LW 7 0 0 0
#53 Ryan Hughes, C/LW 27 4 8 12
#4 Dawson Davidson, D 18 2 3 5
#6 Brandon Schuldhaus, D 39 0 6 6
#27 Nolan Kneen, D 13 0 1 1
#52 Reece Harsch, D 25 0 1 1
Round 2 Schedule Game 1: April 5th @ PA – 7pm: 6-1 PA GAME 2: April 7th @ PA – 6pm: 3-2 PA GAME 3: April 9th @ SAS – 7pm: 1-0 SAS Game 4: April 10th @ SAS – 7pm: 4-1 SAS GAME 5: April 12th @ PA – 7pm GAME 6: April 14th @ SAS – 4PM GAME 7: April 16th @ PA – 7pm* * if necessary
How they were built Round # Player (Overall - Year) 1st 5 Wouters(19th - 2015), Dach(2nd – 2016), De la gorgendiere(5th – 2017), crnkovic(10th – 2017), c. Dach(5th – 2018)
2nd 2 Maier(25th – 2016), Macinnes(35th – 2017)
3rd + 2 luding(66th – 2014), ozar(109th – 2017)
Euro 2 malysjev (23rd - 2018), roykas-marthinsen(83rd – 2018) List 2 kaddoura (2016), Schmidt (2017)
Date Acquired From In exchange for Oct. 2 ’98 D Brandon Schuldhaus Moose Jaw 2019 5th rd pick, 2020 2nd rd pick
Oct. 11 2020 3rd round pick Kelowna 2000 f Michael farren Oct. 25 ’99 f gary haden Medicine hat ’99 f logan Christensen Oct. 30 ’00 f zach Huber Calgary 2020 6th rd pick Nov. 26 ’99 d Nolan kneen Kamloops ’99 d Jackson caller, 2020 2nd rd pick (reg), 2020 3rd rd pick (kel) Dec. 10 2019 4th round pick Victoria ’99 d jake Kustra, 2019 7th rd pick (vic) Jan. 2 ’99 D Reece Harsch Seattle ’01 D Zach Ashton, 2022 5th rd pick Jan. 2 2021 5th rd pick (van) Vancouver ’00 D Seth Bafaro Jan. 7 ’00 F Cyle McNabb Kootenay ’00 F Brandon Machado, 2021 5th rd pick
Jan. 10 ’99 F Ryan Hughes Portland ’99 F Josh Paterson, 2020 2nd (SC), 2021 4th
2018-19 regular season TEAM RECORDS
situation record
1-goal games 15-4-8-0
2-goal games 11-5-0-0
3-plus-goal games 19-6-0-0
Scoring first 27-10-7-0
Opp. scoring first 18-5-1-0 Leading after 2 per. 34-2-4-0
Trailing after 2 per. 3-8-3-0
Tied after 2 per. 8-5-1-0
Overtime Record 4-8
Shootout Record 3-0
Out-shooting opp. 32-5-3-0
Out-shot by opp. 11-8-5-0
Shots are even 2-2-0-0
vs. BC 3-1-1-0
vs. US 3-2-0-0
vs. Central 16-4-4-0
vs. East 23-8-3-0
Month Games Record Home Road
September 4 3-1-0-0 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0
October 12 6-4-2-0 2-2-1-0 4-2-1-0
November 12 7-4-1-0 2-2-0-0 5-2-1-0
December 10 6-2-2-0 3-1-1-0 3-1-1-0
January 11 7-2-2-0 5-1-2-0 2-1-0-0
February 12 10-1-1-0 4-0-1-0 6-1-0-0
March 7 6-1-0-0 5-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 Totals 68 45-15-8-0 23-6-5-0 22-9-3-0
Team playoff stats
situation record 1-goal games 4-1 2-goal games 1-0 3-plus-goal games 1-1 Scoring first 4-1 Opp. scoring first 2-1 Leading after 2 per. 5-1 Trailing after 2 per. 1-1 Tied after 2 per. 1-0 Overtime Record 2-0 Out-shooting opp. 5-0 Out-shot by opp. 1-2 Shots are even 0-0
Situation GF GA
5-on-5 14 12 4-on-4 3-on-3
5-on-4 pp 3 1 5-on-3 pp 1 4-on-3 pp 5-on-4 sh 1 4 5-on-3 sh 4-on-3 sh 1
