Captain Trevor Wong capped off his three-year stint with the Saskatoon Blades by having his name called three times as the W-H-L team handed out their season-ending individual awards for 2023-24. Wong received the Bridge City Bunch’s Most Gentlemanly Player and Fan Choice Awards while named the regular-season co-M-V-P with three-year line-mate Egor Sidorov. The Belarus import was also named the Blue and Gold’s Forward-of-the-Year. In addition, goaltender Evan Gardner is the Blades Rookie-of-the-Year, Nashville first round draft pick Tanner Molendyk received Defenceman-of-the-Year honours, blueliner Charlie Wright was named Saskatoon’s Playoff M-V-P while Brad and Linda Sylvester were named Fans-of-the-Year. They attended all Blades’ home games this past season, have been season ticket holders since 1997-98 and have plans to travel alongside the team on their B-C Division road trip later this year. Following is the complete list of award winners from Wednesday night’s season ticket holder Bar-B-Q at SaskTel Centre…..

Fan of the year – Brad and Linda Sylvester have been season tickets since 97-98.  From the end of January to the end of March they only missed two Blades games, home or away, going to games in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Brandon, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert. He had a 100% scan rate for his season seats this season, and already has plans to join the Blades on the BC road trip for the 2024-25 season.

1. Most Improved Player(s) Award – Rowan Calvert & Misha Volotovskii
2. Hardest Worker Award – Fraser Minten
3. Most Gentlemanly Player Award – Trevor Wong
4. Bentley Memorial Academic Award – Morgan Tastad
5. Community Minded Award – Vaughn Watterodt
6. Unsung Hero Award –  Brandon Lisowsky
7. Rookie of the Year – Evan Gardner
8. Forward of the Year – Egor Sidorov
9. Defenceman of the Year – Tanner Molendyk
10. MVP(s) – Trevor Wong & Egor Sidorov
11. Playoff MVP – Charlie Wright
12. Fan Choice Award – Trevor Wong