Six different players were in the line-up Saturday compared to the previous Saturday and they were all positive additions as the Saskatoon Blades bounced the visiting Swift Current Broncos 8-3.

Josh Pillar opened the scoring, Jayden Wiens had a goal and an assist, Egor Sidorov returned from a one-game injury absence with the game-winning goal and a helper, Conner Roulette made his Bridge City Bunch debut with a pair of assists while recently-acquired defenceman Blake Gustafson chipped in a helper and was +3 as the Blue and Gold improved to 3-0-0 for the seventh time in franchise history. A crowd of 3,119 at SaskTel Centre saw the Blades score six straight goals to snap a 1-1 tie and win their sixth straight home game over Swift Current. Justin Lies (pictured) had a goal and two assists, captain Aidan De La Gorgendiere and Trevor Wong matched the one goal, one assist output of Wiens and Sidorov as Saskatoon had eight different goal-scorers and 14 of 18 skaters recorded at least one point. The Bridge City Bunch out-shot the 1-3-0 Broncos 43-27. The Blue and Gold will try to make it four straight wins to start the season when they welcome Lethbridge to SaskTel Centre on Tuesday. Following is the CJWW post-game show interviews with head coach Brennan Sonne plus Lies and De La Gorgendiere as well as the official game summary, courtesy the W-H-L…..

Swift Current Broncos 3 at Saskatoon Blades 8 – Status: Final
Saturday, October 1, 2022 – SaskTel Centre – Saskatoon, SK

Swift Current 1 1 1 – 3
Saskatoon 3 4 1 – 8

1st Period-1, Saskatoon, Pillar 1 (Roulette, Sidorov), 4:12. 2, Swift Current, Hvidston 1   6:11. 3, Saskatoon, Calvert 1 (Hansen, Gustafson), 9:48. 4, Saskatoon, Lies 1 (De La Gorgendiere, Wiens), 16:01 (PP). Penalties-Saxberg Sc (tripping), 7:29; Ward Sc (holding), 15:56; Roberts Sc (tripping), 16:52.

2nd Period-5, Saskatoon, Sidorov 3 (Roulette), 2:09. 6, Saskatoon, Wong 1 (Parr), 4:09 (SH). 7, Saskatoon, De La Gorgendiere 2 (Lies, Watterodt), 7:30. 8, Saskatoon, Wiens 1 (Watterodt, Lies), 12:55. 9, Swift Current, Raphael Pelletier 1 (Ward, Hvidston), 16:00 (PP). Penalties-Lies Sas (holding), 2:49; Ward Sc (roughing), 4:32; Hansen Sas (roughing), 4:32; Watterodt Sas (tripping), 8:34; Humphries Sas (tripping), 13:17; Wiens Sas (holding), 14:30; Roberts Sc (cross checking), 16:16.

3rd Period-10, Saskatoon, Schneider 1 (Lisowsky, Wong), 4:33. 11, Swift Current, Roberts 1 (Caswell), 10:21. Penalties-Roberts Sc (roughing), 13:11; Roulette Sas (roughing), 13:11.

Shots on Goal-Swift Current 10-7-10-27. Saskatoon 13-16-14-43.
Power Play Opportunities-Swift Current 1 / 4; Saskatoon 1 / 4.
Goalies-Swift Current, Dyck 0-2-0-0 (18 shots-13 saves); Alexander 0-1-0-0 (25 shots-22 saves). Saskatoon, Chadwick 2-0-0-0 (27 shots-24 saves).
A-3,119
Referees-Kyle Kowalski (15).
Linesmen-Devan Thiessen (94), Brayden Glynn (96).