McCallum’s Goaltending and Another Strong Third Period Lifts Blades Past Pats

The combination of Ethan McCallum’s (pictured) stellar goaltending and a third period goal-scoring flurry allowed the Saskatoon Blades to win for the first time in five weeks on the road Saturday night – a 5-2 victory over the Pats in Regina.

McCallum stopped 32 shots for his first win in five starts since joining the Bridge City Bunch from Medicine Hat in late October. The Blue and Gold supported him with three unanswered third period goals to break a 2-2 tie, giving them eight third period tallies, without allowing a goal, in two games coming out of the Christmas break. Ben Riche put the Blades ahead for a third time and for good with his 20th goal of the season, joining Brandon Lisowsky in reaching the 20-goal plateau. Lisowsky opened the scoring with his 21st of the season on a first period power play, giving Saskatoon an ice-breaking goal for the first time in six games. The Bridge City Bunch had lost their three previous games away from SaskTel Centre. Hudson Kibblewhite, Misha Volotovskii and Colten Worthington also found the mark for the Bridge City Bunch, now 19-10-4 for the season – good for first place in the East Division and Eastern Conference. Kibblewhite added two assists for the 17-year-old Vernon, B-C, product’s first career W-H-L three-point game. Riche and Worthington each added a helper for two-point nights while defenceman Grayden Siepmann recorded his second straight two-assist game. Following are the audio highlights from CJWW’s broadcast, Les Lazaruk’s Post-Game Show interviews with head coach Dan Da Silva and McCallum plus the official game summary courtesy the W-H-L…..

Game Report 1021560

Western Hockey League

PLAYED AT: Brandt Centre – Regina, SK
Date: Dec 28, 2024

Visiting Team: Saskatoon Blades
Manager:

Home Team: Regina Pats
Manager:

SASKATOON LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	33	McCallum, Ethan
G	35	Gardner, Evan
C	2	Saunderson, Ben (OA)
	3	Martin, Jordan
	4	Klimpke, Brayden
A	8	Lisowsky, Brandon (OA)
	9	Olsen, Zach
	11	Kibblewhite, Hudson
	13	Poll, Isaac
	14	Worthington, Colten
	16	John, Jaggar (AP)
	17	Volotovskii, Misha
	19	Riche, Ben
A	20	Parr, Tyler
	21	Siepmann, Grayden (OA)
	23	Calvert, Rowan
	25	Williams, Cooper
	36	Tetarenko, Lochlan
	52	Tastad, Morgan
	83	Lewko, Cohen (AP)

SASKATOON PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	36	2:00	Hooking	11:30	1		11:30
3rd	36	2:00	Interference	2:39	1		2:39
3rd	14	2:00	Kneeing	9:02	1		9:02
3rd	11	2:00	Hooking	19:09	1		19:09
3rd	17	2:00	Cross Checking	19:20	1		19:20

REGINA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	31	Pyne, Kelton
G	35	Mulawka, Madden (AP)
	3	Chichkin, Aleksey
	4	Bridgeman, Kolten
A	5	Babcock, John (OA)
	10	Fawcett, Keets
	18	Moore, Zach
A	19	Spencer, Tye (OA)
	21	Maze, Julien
	28	Pantelakis, Zach
	37	Klassen, Cohen
	38	Deschamps, Dayton
	41	Egland, Jace
	42	Shantz, Zackary
	47	Kuzma, Cameron
	51	Brown, Caden
A	52	Whitehead, Braxton (OA)
	53	Paranych, Matt
	55	McNutt, Ephram
	57	Lansard, Zachary

REGINA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	47	2:00	Slashing	9:38	1		9:38
2nd	3	2:00	Delay of Game	7:27	1		7:27
2nd	4	2:00	Hooking	17:30	1		17:30

SASKATOON Goals				SASKATOON PLAYERS (plus)					REGINA PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time		G-As1-As2
1st	9:54	PP	8-19-21
2nd	13:20		11-14-21	11	14	17	21	52	3	19	28	51	53
3rd	:34		19-20-2	2	8	19	20	52	4	5	18	41	52
3rd	13:57		17-11	2	3	11	14	17	3	19	28	51	53
3rd	16:31	EN	14-11	11	14	17	21	52	4	5	19	21	28	51

REGINA Goals			REGINA PLAYERS (plus)					SASKATOON PLAYERS (minus)
Per.	Time	G-As1-As2
2nd	:55	42-21	4	5	10	21	42	8	19	20	21	52
2nd	19:39	28-21	3	5	19	21	28	3	14	17	36	52

POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES
SASKATOON	1 / 3
REGINA	0 / 5

PENALTY SUMMARY
SASKATOON	10 min / 5 inf
REGINA	6 min / 3 inf

POINT SUMMARY
SASKATOON	5 G + 8 A = 13 Pts
REGINA	2 G + 2 A = 4 Pts

SCORING	1	2	3	Total
SASKATOON	1	1	3	5
REGINA	0	2	0	2

GOALTENDER/SAVES (Time)	1	2	3	Tot.	On	Off
SAS – McCallum (60:00) (W)	10	8	14	32	/0:00	3rd/20:00
REG – Pyne (56:19) (L)	7	7	5	19	/0:00	3rd/16:19
REG – Pyne (3:29) (L)	0	0	1	1	/16:31	3rd/20:00