Calvert ensures Blades are still standing after round one

20-year-old’s Game 7 OT winner sinks Oil Kings

It was a Game 7 win that had the perfect story book ending for the Saskatoon Blades.

Locked in a 2-2 with the host Edmonton Oil Kings at Rogers Place in overtime on Monday, the Blades went to the power play when Oil Kings sophomore right-winger Kanjyu Gojsic collided with Saskatoon star netminder Evan Gardner at the 6:59 mark of the extra session and was penalized for goaltender interference. The collision came after Gardner made a sprawling left pad stop on a backhand shot from Oil Kings rookie centre Andrew O’Neill, who turned 19-years-old in February.

On the ensuing power play, Blades star import left-winger David Lewandowski fired a point shot that was deflected home by Blades heart and soul 20-year-old left-winger Rowan Calvert just 24 seconds later. Calvert’s tally allowed the Blades to prevail 3-2 in the series-deciding Game 7 to the disappointment of most of the 4,857 spectators at Rogers Place.

The Blades also take the best-of-seven first round series in the WHL Playoffs against the Oil Kings 4-3. In the 2020s, the Blades have played more Game 7s than any other team in the WHL going 3-1 during that time in those series-deciding contests, which have all happened since 2023. Monday’s game also marked the first time the Blades have won a Game 7 on the road in their team history dating back to their inception in 1964.

Monday’s win also meant the Blades can lay claim to having the only series upset in the first round of the WHL’s post-season. The Oil Kings finished third in the WHL’s Eastern Conference and fifth in the circuit’s overall regular season standings with a 45-18-3-2 mark. They were pegged as having a serious chance to go all the way to the WHL Championship Series.

The Blades were sixth in the Eastern Conference and placed 10^th in the overall regular season standings with a 34-27-5-2 mark. There weren’t a lot of expectations outside of those linked to their club that they would even make it out of the first round of the post-season.

During the regular season, Saskatoon was a club that was consistently inconsistent. The Blades were able to go out and pick up victories against the top teams in the league and would turn around and lose to squads that missed the post-season and were at the bottom of the overall standings.

They have played their best hockey of the campaign in the 2026 WHL Playoffs in their seven game series win against Edmonton. The Blades were legit good even in the games they lost to the Oil Kings. As a result, they were the only team in the first round of the WHL Playoffs that eliminated an opponent that had a superior regular season record.

The best part about Monday’s win was the fact Calvert got the winner. The Moose Jaw, Sask., product first skated for the Blades for 13 regular season contests in the 2021-22 campaign. He proceeded to join the Blades on a full-time basis the next season.

During his career with the Blades, Calvert has done everything the team has asked of him in a quiet and businesslike manner. He will kill penalties, play the power play and play the defensive shutdown role protecting a lead in the last two minutes of a contest.

For the past two seasons, Calvert has taken on more of an offensive role. In the 2024-25 campaign, he had 24 goals and 29 assists in 64 regular season appearances. This past regular season as an overager, he had 31 goals and 22 assists in 67 regular season contests.

When he scores, there are no exuberant celebrations. Calvert usually displays a big smile.

It was fun to see him let loose by celebrating his overtime winner against the Oil Kings taking a dive to centre ice and being mobbed by his teammates. The Blades also showed him leading the “our house” chants on their social media channels in the dressing room after the contest.

Actually, Calvert had two huge moments in Game 7. The first huge moment came in the third period.

When the two sides were locked in a 1-1 tie, Oil Kings captain Gavin Hodnett fired home his first goal of the 2026 post-season from the right faceoff dot in the Saskatoon zone to give the hosts a 2-1 lead with 5:41 remaining in the third.

Just 33 seconds later when the announcement for Hodnett’s tally was still being made, Calvert had the puck along the right side boards in the Edmonton zone. He put a backhand pass out to Blades star centre Cooper Williams, who was alone in front of the Edmonton net. Williams fired home the equalizer that forced a 2-2 tie and ultimately overtime.

Calvert’s family has strong links to the WHL. His father, Jeff, was a goaltender for five seasons on the circuit from 1989 to 1994 with the Moose Jaw Warriors and the then Tacoma Rockets. Older brother, Atley, cemented himself as one of the Warriors all-time greats playing forward from 2019 to 2024 helping Moose Jaw win a WHL championship in his final campaign with the club in 2023-24.

Rowan Calvert has built his own legacy as a career member of the Blades. He will go down as one of the all-time fan favourites in Saskatoon for his will to do anything for the team.

The Blades started out Monday’s contest taking the game to the Oil Kings holding a 9-1 edge in shots on goal just eight minutes into the opening frame. As has been the case in what was the most compelling series in the first round of the WHL Playoffs, the Oil Kings pushed back resulting in the first period ending in a scoreless tie with the Blades holding an 11-8 edge in shots on goal.

The visitors caught a big break at the 6:11 mark of the second period. They would go on a two-man advantage for two minutes after Oil Kings right-winger Landon Hanson took a minor for high sticking and centre Andrew O’Neill took a minor for tripping.

Just 35 seconds into the power play, Lewandowski one-timed home a shot from the right faceoff dot to put the visitors up 1-0. He converted a beauty cross ice pass from Williams.

The Oil Kings authored a quick response. Working on the power play just two minutes later, Oil Kings standout centre Aaron Obobaifo took up position in front of the Saskatoon net and deflected home a point shot from star defenceman Carter Sotheran to even the score at 1-1.

That set up the dramatics for the third period and overtime.

Gardner stopped 30 shots to pick up the win in goal for Saskatoon. Parker Snell turned away 29 shots to take the setback in net for the Oil Kings.

Lewandowski and Williams each finished with one goal and one assist for the Blades. Star 19-year-old right-winger Hunter Laing had a pair of helpers for Saskatoon.

Obobaifo had an assist to go with his goal for the Oil Kings. Sotheran finished his final career WHL outing with a pair of helpers for Edmonton.

The Blade converted on 2-of-5 power play chance on Monday, while the Oil Kings were 1-for-4 with the man advantage. During the seven games of this series, the road team pulled out five victories.

The Blades held Oil Kings star centre Miroslav Holinka and star right-winger Lukas Sawchyn off the scoresheet. Both players had minus-one ratings in the plus-minus department.

Along with Sotheran, Holinka and defenceman Austin Zemlak all exhausted their WHL eligibility with Edmonton’s Game 7 loss. The Oil Kings also fell in Game 7 in a first round series in the 2025 WHL Playoffs to the Prince Albert Raiders.

Speaking of the Raiders, the Blades now advance to face their archrivals in the Raiders in a best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series. The Raiders topped the Eastern Conference with a 52-10-5-1 mark and placed second overall in the WHL’s regular season standings. They were rated fourth in the final CHL Top 10 Rankings.

Game 1 is slated for Friday at 7 p.m. at the storied and historic Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert.

When this series gets going, both teams will likely show the Highway 11 Rivalry is the most intense right now not just in the WHL but the entire CHL.

Before even looking forward to that set, the Blades can soak in the fact they concluded their series with the Oil Kings with an all-time memorable moment for the franchise. Even Raiders fans have to give a nod of respect to the fact that Calvert was the one to deliver it.

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Blades, their fans, bitter over double OT penalty call

Oil Kings force deciding Game 7 in series with Saskatoon

The Oil Kings mob Miroslav Holinka (#92) after his double OT winner.

It was a classic controversial finish that made you rageaholic mad, if you are a fan of the Saskatoon Blades.

The Blades themselves were bitter about how Game 6 of their best-of-seven first round series in the WHL Playoffs ended with the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings on Sunday at the SaskTel Centre. The two sides were locked in a 2-2 tie in double overtime, and with 7:07 remaining in the second overtime frame, Blades star import left-winger David Lewandowski tripped Oil Kings 20-year-old star defenceman Carter Sotheran down to the ice, when Sotheran was trying to skate out of his zone with the puck.

Miroslav Holinka reacts to scoring the double overtime winner.

The officials gave Lewandowski a minor penalty for hooking.

On the ensuing power play, Sotheran had the puck in the right corner of the Saskatoon zone and he passed the puck up to the left point to Oil Kings 20-year-old star import centre Miroslav Holinka. Holinka one-timed home his seventh goal of the post-season to deliver the Oil Kings to a 3-2 victory.

Just 98 seconds before Lewandowski went off for his obstruction infraction, Oil Kings overage defenceman Austin Zemlak cross checked Blades overage captain Tyler Parr from the side into the boards by the Saskatoon blue line well away from where the puck was. The officials didn’t call a penalty in that instance even after having a conference with Parr and Sotheran after the play was blown dead.

Blades captain Tyler Parr (#20) discusses an illegal hit he received. 

Thanks to the no call on Zemlak regarding an extra-curricular hit and nailing Lewandowski with an obstruction infraction that resulted in the winning goal, the Blades faithful was irate. After Holinka scored his winner, arguably the loudest boos of the season in the building rained down from the 5,104 spectators in attendance. A handful of spectators threw debris on the ice including a couple of full plastic pop bottles.

The Blades entered the contest needing a win to take the series with the Oil Kings. The Oil Kings victory forces a 3-3 tie in the set, and the two clubs will face each other in a series-deciding Game 7 on Monday at Rogers Place in Edmonton at 7 p.m. local time.

Evan Gardner makes one of his 41 stops in goal for the Blades.

Following Game 6, Blades head coach Dan DaSilva was not happy with how the end of Sunday’s game went. He wasn’t pleased he did get any explanations from referees Corey Koop or Mark Pearce regarding the call on Lewandowski.

“They didn’t tell me anything,” said DaSilva. “They just made their call, and they wouldn’t come over and have a conversation about it at all.

“Obviously, it is extremely frustrating, and there are probably, I don’t know, eight penalties in overtime that could have been called. One was just minutes before on our captain along the boards he gets hit from behind without touching the puck, without the puck ever really ever coming near him. They don’t call that a pretty egregious hit from behind, board, whatever you want to call it.

Oil Kings goalie Parker Snell turns away a scoring chance.

“Then, they decide to step in and call a trip that is 190 feet away from our end without being a scoring chance or having really anything to do with the play. Anyways, it is what it is. Maybe they had Easter dinner plans.”

DaSilva then switched to refocusing on Monday’s winner take all Game 7 with the Oil Kings.

“We’re going to keep fighting and go down to Edmonton,” said DaSilva. “We’ve played some really good hockey down there this series, and I expect it to be the same tomorrow.”

Aaron Obobaifo had the Oil Kings first goal on Sunday.

Blades star sophomore centre Cooper Williams thought the Blades vans stood up for the team by voicing their displeasure, which also gives the players motivation heading into Game 7.

“I mean the crowd let them (the officials) hear it,” said Williams. “Just having their support behind us and just putting this game past us and focusing on tomorrow, I think that is the biggest factor.”

The Oil Kings understandably pumped to have won the contest and to have forced a series-deciding Game 7 in their home rink. Oil Kings head coach Jason Smith said there was a lot of joy amongst everyone on his squad after Holinka scored the double overtime winner in Game 6.

“It was obviously a great feeling for our bench – for our guys,” said Smith. “We had some guys get back in the lineup tonight that had been out.

The Oil Kings celebrate a goal from Dylan Dean (#14).

“The excitement and winning in overtime is one of the greatest things you can do in hockey. It is exciting. We need to refocus, recover.

“The guys need to make sure they get their rest, their food and be ready to go tomorrow.”

The Oil Kings would get an early contribution from one of their returnees. They broke on to the scoreboard first thanks to a positive bounce at the 7:28 mark of the opening frame.

A puck came off the stick of Oil Kings captain Gavin Hodnett and took a positive bounce to Edmonton centre Aaron Obobaifo in front of the Saskatoon net. Obobaifo, who missed the three previous games of the series due to an undisclosed ailment, wired the puck past Blades star netminder Evan Gardner to put the visitors up 1-0.

Brayden Klimpke scored the Blades first goal on Sunday.

“It is really tough just kind of being in and out of the lineup,” said Obobaifo. “I just keep trying to play my game.

“I’m lucky enough a bounce came my way, and I capitalized.”

The visitors pushed their edge to 2-0 with a bank shot power-play goal with 3:26 remaining in the first. Oil Kings 17-year-old rookie right-winger Dylan Dean had the puck at the left side of the Saskatoon net, and he banked a shot off Blades defenceman Kaden Allan into the Saskatoon goal to give the visitors their two-goal edge.

Just 18 seconds later, the Blades got a positive bounce tally to cut the Oil Kings lead to 2-1. Standout 18-year-old offensive-defenceman Brayden Klimpke took a shot from the point that deflected off the arm of Sotheran into the Edmonton net to cut the visitor’s lead down to one goal.

The Blades enjoy an equalizer from Cooper Williams (#16).

Regulation time didn’t have any drama over any penalty calls. For the majority of that part of the contest, the Oil Kings were playing the perfect road game.

Starting in the second period, they took more territorial control of the contest holding an 11-7 edge in shots on goal for that frame. The visitors were more territorially dominant in the third period keeping the Blades pinned in their own zone for extended stretches while holding a 10-3 edge in shots on goal for the frame.

After controlling the entire third period, the Oil Kings gave up a gift icing with 10.1 seconds remaining in the third. Off the draw in the left faceoff circle of the Edmonton zone, a scramble ensued in front the Oil Kings net. Williams ended up with the puck in front of the Edmonton net, and he fired home the equalizer to force a 2-2 tie with exactly seven seconds remaining in the third. That tally also forced overtime.

Fans at the SaskTel Centre cheer on the Blades.

The Blades faithful had been fairly silent through the second and third periods, but they came to life after Williams scored the equalizer to force overtime.

“The crowd to hear that it was pretty cool,” said Williams. “It felt so good to see that one go in for sure.”

The crowd was into the contest in a big way through the two overtime frames. The Blades controlled play in the first overtime period holding a 15-7 edge in shots on goal for the frame.

The Blades best chance to score in the first overtime came on a drive by centre Hayden Harsanyi from the left faceoff circle in the Edmonton zone. His shot got through Oil Kings breakout rookie netminder Parker Snell, and the puck was inching across the crease towards the open net. It was swept off the crease by Oil Kings right-winger Adam Jecho to preserve the tie score at that point in the frame.

Cooper Williams was denied on a prime scoring chance in overtime two.

The hosts had a couple of huge chances to get the winner in the second overtime. Williams found himself at one point alone in front of the Edmonton net with the puck. He tried to put a deke move on to fake out Snell, but the netminder would push the puck off Williams stick and away from the net to end that threat.

A short time later, Parr wired a shot off the post of the Edmonton net. That set the stage for the dramatics at the end of the contest that resulted in Holinka’s winner.

Gardner turned away 41 shots to take the setback in net for the Blades. Snell stopped 37 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Oil Kings.

Carter Sotheran set up the Oil Kings winning goal.

The Oil Kings finished third in the WHL’s Eastern Conference and fifth in the circuit’s overall regular season standings with a 45-18-3-2 mark. The Blades were sixth in the Eastern Conference and placed 10^th in the overall regular season standings with a 34-27-5-2 mark.

During the regular season, Saskatoon was a club that was consistently inconsistent. The Blades were able to go out and pick up victories against the top teams in the league and would turn around and lose to squads that missed the post-season and were at the bottom of the overall standings.

They have played their best hockey in the post-season. If they are able to beat Edmonton in Game 7, the Blades would be the only team to post a series upset in the first round of the WHL’s post-season.

Blades RW Gavin Clark encounters traffic in the Edmonton zone.

Over the first six games between the Blades and Oil Kings, the road team has pulled out victory four times, with the two squads collecting two road wins each. DaSilva believes that Game 7 is up for grabs for both teams going into it.

“I almost think that the home ice advantage is nothing in this series, honestly,” said DaSilva. “It is so close that is why.

“It is just the games are so close. The margin for error is really thin. I think both teams are leaving it all out there, whether they’re at home or on the road it doesn’t really matter.

The Oil Kings depart to their dressing room after Sunday’s win.

“Game 7, anything can happen. It doesn’t matter if we’re at home or on the road. We’re just going to show up and compete like we always do.”

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Blades split with Oil Kings in Edmonton to start post-season

Saskatoon hosts Games 3 and 4 of first round series

Ethan MacKenzie ensured his Edmonton Oil Kings avoided being in an unenviable position after their second game of the WHL Playoffs.

On Sunday afternoon, the Oil Kings and the Blades were locked in a 3-3 tie in overtime in Game 2 of a best-of-seven first round series at the Rogers Place. The Blades claimed Game 1 of the series on Friday at Rogers Place 3-2, where they also had a 30-29 edge in shots on goal.

In the later stages of overtime on Sunday, the Oil Kings were working on a power play that was nearing an edge. At that point, MacKenzie, who is the Oil Kings star 19-year-old defenceman, one-timed home a shot low in the right faceoff circle of the Saskatoon zone past Blades star netminder Evan Gardner to give the host Oil Kings a 4-3 victory.

MacKenzie’s goal came with 3:06 remaining in overtime and three seconds remaining on the power-play his club was working on. He converted a beauty setup pass from 20-year-old star import centre Miroslav Holinka. The tally sent the Oil Kings home crowd of 5,173 spectators into an ecstatic frenzy.

With the win, the Oil Kings even the series at 1-1. They are still facing challenging waters as the series shifts to Saskatoon for Game 3 and 4 to be held Tuesday and Wednesday respectively at the SaskTel Centre for a 7 p.m. start time on both nights.

The Oil Kings finished third in the WHL’s Eastern Conference and fifth in the circuit’s overall regular season standings with a 45-18-3-2 mark. The Blades were sixth in the Eastern Conference and placed 10^th in the overall regular season standings with a 34-27-5-2 mark.

During the regular season, Saskatoon was a club that was consistently inconsistent. The Blades were able to go out and pick up victories against the top teams in the league and would turn around and lose to squads that missed the post-season and were at the bottom of the overall standings.

In their first two contests of the 2026 post-season, it can be argued the Blades had a couple of their best outings in the overall 2025-26 campaign.

In Game 2 on Sunday, the Blades took a 1-0 lead on a goal from veteran centre Hayden Harsanyi with 2:32 remaining in the first period. The Oil Kings would even the score at 1-1 with a power-play goal coming from standout left-winger Aaron Obobaifo with 4:02 remaining in the second period.

Starting with 6:37 remaining in the third, the Oil Kings scored goals 83 seconds apart from each other to go ahead 3-1. Holinka tallied on the power play, while 17-year-old centre Dylan Dean scored at even strength.

The Blades didn’t go away. With 3:04 remaining in the third, the two clubs were playing four skaters versus four skaters due to off-setting minor penalties, and Blades pulled Gardner for an extra attacker. Harsanyi potted his second goal of the contest at that point to trim the Oil Kings lead to 3-2.

With Gardner back tending the Saskatoon net and both sides playing at full strength, Blades star import left-winger David Lewandowski fired home the equalizer with two minutes remaining in the third to force a 3-3 tie and overtime.

That set the stage for MacKenzie to score the winner in the extra session.

Gardner turned away 38 shots to take the setback in net for the Blades. Oil Kings 17-year-old rookie Parker Snell stopped 41 shots to pick up the win in goal for Edmonton.

Lewandowski had a pair of assists to go with his goal and finished with a plus-two rating in the plus-minus department. Blades rearguard Tristen Doyle posted a pair of assists and a plus-one rating.

Holinka had a pair of assists to go with his goal, while MacKenzie had a helper to go with his overtime winner. Oil Kings star 20-year-old defenceman Carter Sotheran finished with a pair of assists.

The Blades were 0-for-5 on the power play, while the Oil Kings converted 3-of-6 chances with the man advantage.

If the Blades can now find success on home ice in Games 3 and 4 of this set, they can bring the upset watch up to another level.

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Power player powers Oil Kings, comes up empty for Blades

Max Curran (#8) celebrates scoring a second period power-play goal.

The power play can giveth, and the power play and taketh away.

The Edmonton Oil Kings and Saskatoon Blades learned that lesson in a huge way in a head-to-head WHL regular season clash played before 3,934 spectators on Friday at the SaskTel Centre. The visiting Oil Kings went 3-for-6 with the man advantage and skated away with a 3-1 victory.

The Blades came up empty on six power-play opportunities and had to wonder what might have been. Saskatoon entered the contest having scored on 39-of-134 power-play chances on the campaign for a 29.1 per cent success rate to rate fourth overall in the WHL. The Blades penalty kill was about middle of the pack with a 77.9 per cent success rate entering play on Friday.

Max Curran scored two power-play goals for the Oil Kings.

Edmonton’s power play entering play on Friday was 28-for-139 for a 20.1 per cent success rate, which was in the bottom half of the league. The Oil Kings were also tied with the Wenatchee Wild for giving up the most short-handed goals against at eight. The penalty kill was a different story for Edmonton as the Oil Kings had an 81.8 per cent success rate entering play on Friday to sit in the top four on the circuit.

The win was a sixth straight for the Oil Kings, who improved to 28-7-3-1 to sit in a tie with the Prince Albert Raiders (28-5-4) for second and third overall in the Eastern Conference. Edmonton was rated sixth in the latest CHL Top 10 Rankings that were released on Tuesday, while the Raiders are third.

Evan Gardner makes one of his 26 save in goal for the Blades.

The Blades saw their four game winning streak come to an end on Friday. They fell to 21-15-2-1 to sit fifth overall in the Eastern Conference.

Going into Friday’s contest, it wasn’t expected the Oil Kings would outshine the Blades on the power play. That ended up being exactly what happened.

The Oil Kings broke on the scoreboard first scoring on the power play on their first shot of the game at the 4:06 mark of the opening frame. Oil Kings import right-winger Miroslav Holinka had the puck along the left wing and fed a pass across the front of the Saskatoon net to star centre Max Curran positioned by the right faceoff circle.

Curran, who helped Czechia win silver at the world juniors that concluded on Monday in Minnesota, one-timed home his 12^th of the season to give the visitors their one-goal edge.

Miroslav Holinka had a pair of assists for the Oil Kings.

With 8:30 remaining in the first, the Blades had a huge chance to pull even on the scoreboard. Blades rookie import left-winger Elias Pul deflected a point shot from the front of the Edmonton net only to be denied by Oil Kings reliable 17-year-old rookie netminder Parker Snell.

At the 4:06 mark of the second, the Oil Kings pushed their advantage out to 2-0 scoring their second power-play goal that was almost a carbon copy of their first. Holinka had the puck up high by the left point and slid a pass to the right side of the Saskatoon net to Curran. From a bad angle, Curran slid home his second of the contest and 13^th of the campaign to give Edmonton a two-goal advantage.

Isaac Poll had the Blades lone goal on Friday.

Oil Kings star 19-year-old defenceman Ethan MacKenzie picked up assists on both of those first two power-play goals. MacKenzie was playing his first game with the Oil Kings after having helped Canada win bronze at the world junior that wrapped up on Monday.

By the time the second period came to an end, the Blades had failed to score on five of their chances with the power play. They still managed to gain some momentum before the second frame ended.

With three seconds remaining in the second, the Blades got a big traction goal from sophomore 18-year-old defenceman Isaac Poll. Poll had the puck by the right side boards in the Edmonton zone above the right faceoff circle and floated home a shot for his first tally of the campaign to cut the Oil Kings lead to 2-1.

Blake Fiddler scored a key third period power-play goal.

The Oil King proceeded to get a key dagger goal at the 4:38 mark of the third period scoring their third power-play marker on the night. Edmonton defenceman Blake Fiddler took a shot from the point that deflected off a couple of bodies into the Saskatoon net to push the visitors lead out to 3-1.

With 6:56 remaining in the third, Blades 17-year-old right-winger Zach Olsen was given a double minor for high sticking and that infraction will be automatically reviewed by the WHL office for a possible suspension. The Oil Kings were unable to build on their lead on that four-minute power play.

Evan Gardner turned away 26 shots taking the setback in goal for the Blades. Snell stopped 19 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Oil Kings, who have won two-of-three meetings with the Blades this season.

The Oil Kings return to action on Saturday when they travel to Prince Albert to take on the Raiders (7 p.m., Art Hauser Centre).

The Oil Kings celebrate their win on Friday night.

The Blades are off until Wednesday when they host the Brandon Wheat Kings (7 p.m., SaskTel Centre).

Going forward, the Blades will be looking to rediscover their prolific touch on the power play.

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