2019 Eastern Conference qf game 2 – saturday march 23rd, 2019 @ 7:00Pm, Sasktel Centre Series: 1-0 SAS Regular Season Regular Season Saskatoon Blades (45-15-8-0 – 98pts) Moose Jaw Warriors (40-20-6-2 – 88pts) 2nd – East Division 2nd – Eastern Conference 3rd – East Division 5th – Eastern Conference PP – 65/297 = 21.9% (10th in WHL) PP – 70/255 = 27.5% (3rd in WHL) PK – 193/237 = 81.4% (5th in WHL) PK – 178/221 = 80.5% (7th in WHL) Final 10 games: (8-2-0-0) Final 10 games: (6-4-0-0) 2019 Playoffs 2019 Playoffs Saskatoon Blades (1-0) Moose Jaw Warriors (0-1) PP – 1/4 = 25% PP – 0/2 = 0% PK – 2/2 = 100% PK – 3/4 = 75% OT Record: 1-0 OT Record: 0-1 The last game… Chase Wouters scored his career playoff goal 3:23 into the first overtime period to lift the Blades to a 3-2 victory in the series opener over the Moose Jaw Warriors. Riley McKay (1) and Max Gerlach (1) also scored for the Blades, Brandon Schuldhaus had 2 assists, and Nolan Maier made 21 saves for the win in goal. Eric Alarie (1) and Kaeden Taphorn (1) scored for the Warriors; Brodan Salmond stopped 35/38 shots. Head to head… In game 1 the Blades outshot the Warriors 38-23 and won 43 of 64 faceoffs. Saskatoon held the edge in special teams scoring the only power play goal so far in the series. The Blades won the regular season series 5-1, including the last four meetings, two of which were earlier in the month of March. All games in the season series ended in regulation time. Saskatoon was 7/25 (28%) on the power play in the season series and 14/18 (77.8%) on the PK. Max Gerlach (5G-3A-8PTS) led the Blades offense in the season series, Gary Haden (3-4-7) and Kirby Dach (2-5-7) were close behind with 7pts each. Tristin Langan led the Warriors with 6G-3A-9PTS in 5 games vs the Blades this season, Justin Almeida was second with 2G-6A-8PTS. Season Summary… Saskatoon finished the 2018-19 season having won 15 of their last 17 games to hit 98 points on the season. This is their 7th best total in franchise history. 20-year-old defenceman Dawson Davidson led the team in scoring from the blue line with 75 points. Davidson was named to the Eastern Conference’s 1st All-Star team, and finished tied with Moose Jaw’s Josh Brook for most points by a d-man in the WHL. Max Gerlach finished one point behind Davidson with 74, including 42 goals which tied for 6th most in the WHL. Top CHL prospect for the 2019 NHL Draft, Kirby Dach, finished 3rd in teams scoring with 73 points, and had the highest points-per-game on the Blades roster at 1.18PPG. In goal, Nolan Maier piled up 36 wins which was the 3rd most in the WHL. The 2001 born sophomore finished with a stat line of 2.63GAA - .910SV% - 36-10-4-0 and 4 shutouts. The Opponent… The Moose Jaw Warriors boast a lethal lineup of two of the top three scorers in the WHL. Tristin Langan finished second in the WHL scoring race with 113 points and his line mate Justin Almeida was right behind with 111. Playing between those two is rookie Brayden Tracey who led all WHL rookies with 81 points. On the back end, the Warriors have two of the league’s top defenders in Josh Brook, who tied for the WHL scoring race among defensemen with Saskatoon’s Dawson Davidson at 75, and Vancouver Canucks signed prospect, Jett Woo who had 66 points. Mr. 300… Dawson Davidson finished his WHL regular season career with 301 games played. Not only did Davidson have an impressive year with 75 points, he is also the owner of the longest assist streak in the WHL this season at 15 games and 24 assists. He had 21 multi-point games this season and 3 goals and 2 assists vs Moose Jaw in 6 meetings. Nolan Being Nolan… Since January 1st, Nolan Maier is 19-2-2-0 in 23 regular season starts to go along with a .918SV% and 2.40GAA and 2 shutouts. Maier won his WHL playoff debut last night allowing just 2 goals on 23 shots. Draft watch… Kirby Dach is ranked #2 among North American skaters behind only consensus #1 pick Jack Hughes. Emil Malysjev is ranked 208th among North American skaters. Nolan Maier was rated a ‘C’ in the September rankings and finished 3rd in the WHL with 36 wins this season. Maier also won a gold medal alongside Dach with Team Canada at the 2018 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup in Edmonton, Alta. Chase Wouters went undrafted last June but did attend Tampa Bay Lightning’s summer, rookie, and main camps. WHL Playoff experience prior to this series Round 1 Schedule Game 1: March 22 @ Sas – 7pm 3-2 ot/f SAS Player GP G A PTS Game 2: March 23 @ Sas – 7pm #9 Max Gerlach, RW 11 5 4 9 Game 3: March 26 @ MJ – 7pm Game 4: March 27 @ MJ – 7pm #14 Gary Haden, LW 6 2 0 2 Game 5: March 29 @ Sas – 7pm* #17 Eric Florchuk, C 2 0 0 0 Game 6: March 30 @ mj – 7pm* Game 7: April 1 @ Sas – 7pm* #28 Cyle McNabb, C/RW 6 0 0 0 * if necessary #39 Riley McKay, LW 7 0 0 0 #53 Ryan Hughes, C/LW 27 4 8 12 #4 Dawson Davidson, D 18 2 3 5 #6 Brandon Schuldhaus, D 39 0 6 6 #27 Nolan Kneen, D 13 0 1 1 #52 Reece Harsch, D 25 0 1 1 Current Streaks Roster breakdown: Age Breakdown: n/A 14 Forwards 1998 – 3 2001 – 5 8 Defenseman 1999 – 7 2002 – 3 2 Goalies 2000 – 5 2003 – 1 Reg. season Leaders: Goals: Gerlach (42) PPG: Gerlach (15) Goalies: Assists: Davidson (62) SOG: Gerlach (252) SV%: maier (.910) Points: Davidson (75) GWG: haden (8) GAA: maier (2.64) Penalty Minutes: mckay (149) Rookie Pts: crnkovic (31) wins: maier (36) +/-: davidson (+27) Faceoff %: wouters (55.4%) so: MAIER (4) How they were built Round # Player (Overall - Year) 1st 4 Wouters(19th - 2015), Dach(2nd – 2016), De la gorgendiere(5th – 2017), crnkovic(10th – 2017) 2nd 1 Maier(25th – 2016) 3rd 1 luding(66th – 2014) Euro 2 malysjev (23rd - 2018), roykas-marthinsen(83rd – 2018) List 2 kaddoura (2016), Schmidt (2017) Trade 12 mckay(SPO), harsch (SEA), kneen (KAM), Gerlach (MH), davidson (REG), florchuk (VIC), robins (REG), SCHULDHAUS (MJ), Haden (MH), Huber (CGY), Hughes (POR), MCNABB (KTN) Date Acquired From In exchange for Oct. 2 ’98 D Brandon Schuldhaus Moose Jaw 2019 5th rd pick, 2020 2nd rd pick Oct. 11 2020 3rd round pick Kelowna 2000 f Michael farren Oct. 25 ’99 f gary haden Medicine hat ’99 f logan Christensen Oct. 30 ’00 f zach Huber Calgary 2020 6th rd pick Nov. 26 ’99 d Nolan kneen Kamloops ’99 d Jackson caller, 2020 2nd rd pick (reg), 2020 3rd rd pick (kel) Dec. 10 2019 4th round pick Victoria ’99 d jake Kustra, 2019 7th rd pick (vic) Jan. 2 ’99 D Reece Harsch Seattle ’01 D Zach Ashton, 2022 5th rd pick Jan. 2 2021 5th rd pick (van) Vancouver ’00 D Seth Bafaro Jan. 7 ’00 F Cyle McNabb Kootenay ’00 F Brandon Machado, 2021 5th rd pick Jan. 10 ’99 F Ryan Hughes Portland ’99 F Josh Paterson, 2020 2nd (SC), 2021 4th 2018-19 regular season TEAM RECORDS situation record Overtime Record 4-8 1-goal games 15-4-8-0 Shootout Record 3-0 2-goal games 11-5-0-0 Out-shooting opp. 32-5-3-0 3-plus-goal games 19-6-0-0 Out-shot by opp. 11-8-5-0 Scoring first 27-10-7-0 Shots are even 2-2-0-0 Opp. scoring first 18-5-1-0 vs. BC 3-1-1-0 Leading after 2 per. 34-2-4-0 vs. US 3-2-0-0 Trailing after 2 per. 3-8-3-0 vs. Central 16-4-4-0 Tied after 2 per. 8-5-1-0 vs. East 23-8-3-0 Month Games Record Home Road September 4 3-1-0-0 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 October 12 6-4-2-0 2-2-1-0 4-2-1-0 November 12 7-4-1-0 2-2-0-0 5-2-1-0 December 10 6-2-2-0 3-1-1-0 3-1-1-0 January 11 7-2-2-0 5-1-2-0 2-1-0-0 February 12 10-1-1-0 4-0-1-0 6-1-0-0 March 7 6-1-0-0 5-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 Totals 68 45-15-8-0 23-6-5-0 22-9-3-0 This Date in Blades History: March 23, 1994…The Blades scored two goals in each of the first two periods and coasted to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Swift Current Broncos to open their best-of-seven East Division quarter-final series. The Blades had finished third in the regular-season while the Broncos were sixth. Forwards Trevor Hanas and Clarke Wilm scored in the first period while defenceman Lee Sorochan tallied twice in the second for Saskatoon, who would out-shoot Speedy Creek by a 37-36 margin.