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The Blades wrapped up their regular-season play Friday night with a 2-1 victory over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings before an announced crowd of 5,609 patrons at SaskTel Centre.
The Saskatoon Blades will prepare to play the Moose Jaw Warriors in the opening round of the Western Hockey League playoffs. Photo by Michelle Berg /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Their playoff match-up is finally set.
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The Saskatoon Blades will meet the Moose Jaw Warriors in the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs.
The best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final series is scheduled to begin next Friday in Moose Jaw.
The Blades wrapped up their regular-season play Friday night with a 2-1 victory over the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings before an announced crowd of 5,609 patrons at SaskTel Centre.
Kyle Crnkovic notched what proved to be the game-winning goal at 11:56 of the second period. Trevor Wong also scored for Saskatoon, which was outshot 36-22.
Nolan Maier made 35 saves for the win to earn the game’s No. 1 star honour.
Saskatoon finishes the regular season with a 38-26-3-1 record.
Brandon slipped to 35-27-3-2.
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Moose Jaw, which wraps up its regular season Sunday in Regina against the Pats, guaranteed itself fourth place and home-ice advantage against the Blades with a 5-4 overtime loss to the Lethbridge Hurricanes as the Warriors gained the extra point needed to stave off Saskatoon.
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![Saskatoon Blades' Tanner Molendyk and Egor Sidorov in first period action against Brandon Wheat Kings at SaskTel Centre. Photo taken in Saskatoon on Saturday, April 2, 2022.]()
Blades wrap up regular season at home against Wheaties
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![Saskatoon Blades goalie Nolan Maier takes on the Prince Albert Raiders at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon on March 12, 2022.]()
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