The Saskatoon Blades forward scored at the 3:29 mark of overtime to give his team a much-needed 5-4 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors on Wednesday night before 4,643 fans at the Moose Jaw Events Centre.
Published May 01, 2024 • Last updated 11 hours ago • 2 minute read
Blades 5, Warriors 4 (OT)
Egor Sidorov was left all alone and made no mistake.
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The Saskatoon Blades forward scored at the 3:29 mark of overtime to give his team a much-needed 5-4 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors on Wednesday night before 4,643 fans at the Moose Jaw Events Centre.
Sidorov found himself behind the Moose Jaw Warriors’ defence after teammate Brandon Lisowsky batted the puck towards him, leaving Sidorov to skate in alone on Warriors goalie Jackson Unger.
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With the win, Saskatoon evens the best-of-seven Western Hockey League Eastern Conference final series at two games apiece.
Game 5 will be played Friday night, 7 p.m., at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon. Game 6 goes Sunday afternoon back in Moose Jaw.
“That’s a big win,” said Blades head coach Brennan Sonne in a post-game interview with CJWW Radio play-by-play broadcaster Les Lazaruk.
“It’s quite an exciting series, there’s no doubt.”
The Blades jumped out to an early lead Wednesday, with Lisowsky scoring just 14 seconds into the game and Trevor Wong adding a goal at 1:07. They soon made it 3-zip on a goal by Alexander Suzdalev at 8:32.
“I loved our start,” said Sonne. “That was our best start in playoffs. Fantastic start. Circumstances changed that momentum. We stick with it. Third period, it starts to come back to our side and we like it when it’s on Egor’s stick all alone in front of the net, that’s for sure.”
The Warriors battled back with two goals of their own in the opening period by Brayden Yager and Jagger Firkus before Tanner Molendyk restored a two-goal cushion for the Blades at 17:52.
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In the second period, Yager scored at 1:04 and Rilen Kovacevic notched the equalizer at 9:57.
That’s the way the score stood until Sidorov’s OT heroics.
Evan Gardner stopped 33 shots for Saskatoon, which got out-shot by Moose Jaw 37-24.
Unger made 19 saves for the Warriors, who trailed 4-2 after the first period.
Moose Jaw went 0-for-4 on the power play. Saskatoon was 0-for-2.
BREAKAWAYS: The Blades welcomed back forward Tyler Parr from injury. Parr missed the entire Red Deer series … Easton Armstrong played his second game after serving a four-game suspension as the Blades were back to a full line-up at forward.
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