The set-up man out-shone the goal-scorer and the biggest point-getter as the Saskatoon Blades doubled the Tri-City Americans 6-3 Tuesday night.

Captain Trevor Wong registered his 200th career W-H-L point, assisting on Easton Armstrong’s empty-net tally. It was the 20-year-old Wong’s second helper of the night. Armstrong, meanwhile, assisted on all three of Egor Sidorov’s (pictured) goals. It was the 19-year-old Anaheim Draft pick’s third hat trick of the season while Armstrong had a four-point outing. Lukas Hansen opened the scoring for the Bridge City Bunch and Vaughan Watterodt ended a 17-game goal-less drought off of a nifty 2-on-1 feed from Fraser Minten, who upped his points streak to eight games, the last two games as a member of the Blue and Gold following Friday’s trade with Kamloops. The Blades, who out-shot the 13-9-2 Ams 38-32, upped their road trip record to 2-2-1 and improved their overall mark to 17-8-1, moving them ahead of Medicine Hat into first place in the W-H-L’s Eastern Conference. Saskatoon is right back at it Wednesday, playing their sixth and final U-S Division opponent in Spokane against the Chiefs. CJWW’s broadcast begins at 8:45 p.m. with the Palliser Rooms E-Q-3 Cutting Edge Pre-Game Show and the play-by-play at 9 o’clock. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast, Les Lazaruk’s Post-Game Show interviews with head coach Brennan Sonne and Wong plus the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L…..

Saskatoon Blades 6 at Tri-City Americans 3 – Status: Final
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – Toyota Center – Kennewick, WA

Saskatoon 1 1 4 – 6
Tri-City 0 1 2 – 3

1st Period-1, Saskatoon, Hansen 8 (Calvert), 5:56. Penalties-Wright Sas (interference), 11:28.

2nd Period-2, Saskatoon, Sidorov 22 (Wong, Armstrong), 0:43. 3, Tri-City, Bell 8 (Gavin, Curran), 8:39. Penalties-No Penalties

3rd Period-4, Saskatoon, Sidorov 23 (Armstrong, Molendyk), 6:22. 5, Tri-City, McMillan 9   8:35. 6, Saskatoon, Sidorov 24 (Armstrong, Wright), 9:11. 7, Saskatoon, Watterodt 4 (Minten, Lisowsky), 9:37. 8, Saskatoon, Armstrong 14 (Wong), 17:36 (EN). 9, Tri-City, Bocharov 5 (Curran, MacAdams), 18:59. Penalties-Tastad Sas (interference), 10:22.

Shots on Goal-Saskatoon 9-18-11-38. Tri-City 5-12-15-32.
Power Play Opportunities-Saskatoon 0 / 0; Tri-City 0 / 2.
Goalies-Saskatoon, Elliott 12-4-1-0 (32 shots-29 saves). Tri-City, Kelsey 6-5-0-1 (37 shots-32 saves).
A-2,313
Referees-Mike Campbell (89), Kacey Walker (156).
Linesmen-Nick Albinati (3), Max Lucas (172).