The lesson was duly noted by the Saskatoon Blades for a second straight night.
Bouncing back from last Saturday’s 4-1 loss at home to Western Conference cellar-dwelling Prince George with a 5-0 victory Friday at home over the W-H-L’s last place Broncos, the Bridge City Bunch made sure there was no letdown or let-up in Saturday’s return match in Swift Current…skating away with a 7-2 triumph.
“We had a good start, managed to get a couple of goals early,” said Blue and Gold associate coach Ryan Marsh. “But they didn’t go away. We were happy with that third period, we were really happy with our effort and the way we played that third period.”
The Broncos kept things interesting in the second period, finally breaking through Koen MacInnes a couple of time and snapping a goal-less streak at 116:01 as well as MacInnes’ own personal shutout streak at 90:57. But, Kyle Crnkovic scored on a power play just 17 seconds into the third period to give the Blades a 5-2 lead and take the enthusiasm out of Swift Current’s bench.
Aidan De La Gorgendiere (pictured) added the other two third period goals for Saskatoon. Other tallies came from Chase Wouters, Tristen Robins, Martin Fasko-Rudas and Alex Morozoff. The Bridge City Bunch out-shot the Broncos 41-28 and scored twice on the power play as their record improved to 22-18-3. The Blue and Gold are off until Friday when they host Medicine Hat. Following is the official game summary from the W-H-L…
Saskatoon Blades 7 at Swift Current Broncos 2 – Status: Final
Saturday, January 18, 2020 – Innovation Credit Union i-plex – Swift Current, SK
Saskatoon 2 2 3 – 7
Swift Current 0 2 0 – 2
1st Period-1, Saskatoon, Wouters 19 (Walford), 1:20 (PP). 2, Saskatoon, Robins 18 (Crnkovic), 13:16. Penalties-Poulter Sc (delay of game), 1:15; De La Gorgendiere Sas (holding), 17:12.
2nd Period-3, Swift Current, Nagy 4 (Jerome, Bulych), 4:02. 4, Saskatoon, Fasko-Rudas 6 (Robins, Crnkovic), 15:14. 5, Saskatoon, Morozoff 6 (De La Gorgendiere, Kneen), 17:32. 6, Swift Current, Bulych 10 (Jerome, Benson), 18:03. Penalties-Bulych Sc (boarding), 0:46; Bulych Sc (ineligible player ), 5:57; Kucerik Sas (boarding), 12:30; Hendren Sc (roughing), 18:31.
3rd Period-7, Saskatoon, Crnkovic 11 (Robins, Walford), 0:17 (PP). 8, Saskatoon, De La Gorgendiere 2 (Dach), 5:16. 9, Saskatoon, De La Gorgendiere 3 (Dach, Kneen), 10:20. Penalties-Huber Sas (high sticking), 5:54; Saleski Sc (cross checking), 18:33.
Shots on Goal-Saskatoon 9-17-15-41. Swift Current 10-10-8-28.
Power Play Opportunities-Saskatoon 2 / 5; Swift Current 0 / 3.
Goalies-Saskatoon, MacInnes 7-4-0-0 (28 shots-26 saves). Swift Current, Poulter 8-19-1-2 (41 shots-34 saves).
A-1,844
Referees-Karlin Krieger (27), Austin Weisberger.
Linesmen-Ryan Lundquist (106), Logan Tisdale.
