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Reposting this somewhere that people might appreciate it: SPOTLIGHT ON: NIKITA SCHERBAK (Draft Rank: 24 among North American Skaters)  Nikita Scherbak is a beaut and a shining star on a very bad Saskatoon Blades team. After being "stolen" from a Moscow junior team at the start of the year, Scherbak has put up 24 goals and 32 assists for the Blades, putting him 8th overall in points across the league. Technically a rookie despite being 18, Scherbak has put up about 20 more points than the next leading rookie scorer, Julius Honka, whose name is stupid and is also a dumb guy who sucks. Beginning his WHL career as the guy in your beer league who won't get off the ice or backcheck, Scherbak has matured into a fine 1.75-way player who only occasionally takes 3-minute shifts. He has soft, buttery hands, skates faster than 99% of the league and wears huge shoulder pads that make him look about 50 pounds heavier than he is. Nikita Scherbak would make a fine first- or second-round pick for the Washington Capitals, who seem to attract former Saskatoon Blades like flies on poo poo (see also: Holtby, Braden; Green, Mike; Erat, Martin.) Scherbak! Update: In the time since this was written, Scherbak got another 8 points, was named to the Top Prospects game (where he got a couple of sweet breakaways that went nowhere but hopefully got him noticed), and was injured by a giant shitstain on the Prince George Cougars, who hauled our star forward to the ground by his arm and punched him in the back of the head a bunch of times while the officials watched and laughed. He is currently out with an upper-body injury (read: hosed-up shoulder) that is probably going to tank his draft status to the second round. Scherbak!
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CHL TV coverage is currently handled by Sportsnet in Canada and does not have wide distribution in the US that I know of. The teams in American markets have local deals, but unless you somehow have the local TV affiliate from Erie in your cable package I think you're SOL
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Feb 12, 2014 15:50
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Hockey Webcasts is a fairly comprehensive source to stream radio for almost every North American team from the NHL, AHL, ECHL, WHL, OHL, and QMJHL. http://www.hockeywebcasts.com Can't speak for the voracity of the other leagues, but the stations listed under the Dub check out.
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Feb 12, 2014 19:26
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he does not respond to your summons e: 
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Feb 13, 2014 03:47
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Ask again in 2018 when the NHL backs out of the Olympics and the Canadian national team is just Team Cherry, Chris Simon and a shooter tutor
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Feb 13, 2014 17:45
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I thought we already did the stairs in your house thing
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Feb 13, 2014 19:41
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I listened to the fine Oil Kings-Hurricanes game on the drive home today. Sounded like a tight competitive match
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After a long road set while their arena was occupied by ravenous monster trucks, the Saskatoon Blades finally return home for their final game against the hated Regina Pats. The Blades managed to take Calgary to OT on Friday in a ridiculous 6-5 barn-burner that ended 11 seconds into the extra frame, thanks to some dumb idiot on the Hitmen who scored a lucky goal that sucked. The next day, they took out their rage on the Red Deer Rebels, beating them 4-1 in a game I didn't get to listen to because the stupid phone app wasn't working properly. Tonight the Blades honour longtime play-by-play man Les Lazaruk, who called his 1500th game on Saturday. Les was also chosen fourth overall by the Winnipeg Jets in Hockles' SAS Be a Pro thread. Congratulations, Les!
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Feb 19, 2014 16:32
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gently caress those are bomb-rear end jerseys
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Feb 22, 2014 05:36
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mindofme posted:I like those so much more than the neon green\black monstrosities they've used at home this season/ how dare you critique the Laser Quest jersey that I hatelove so much
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Feb 24, 2014 15:04
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We're the Oilers of the whl 
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Feb 25, 2014 23:10
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London is the only team this doesn't apply to because they are the Penguins of the CHL and should be hated appropriately
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Feb 25, 2014 23:41
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I'm assuming they'll fence in the dog section somehow, but I still think a dog's making it into Q and taking a huge poo poo right next to 7lip's seatPleads posted:Anyone want to take bets on type of animal, time of game, and location of event for tonight's Saskatoon Blades' Critters, Pucks n' Paws Night?
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Feb 28, 2014 23:06
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Stickarts posted:For the record, there were 158 dogs in attendance at that Blades game. I listened to it driving to Lloyd and back that night (where the diesel pumps were frozen lol -50 lol) All these people are plugs except lazar gently caress Regina
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Mar 7, 2014 05:16
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C for being invisible
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If he defects to Russia they could probably pick him in the import draft 
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Mar 7, 2014 21:15
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Tim Bozon has been placed in an induced coma.
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Mar 8, 2014 20:31
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Hockles posted:They released the jerseys LEM will wear for the Pink the Rink night in 2 weeks. They are the coolest jerseys ever. can't wait for the pictures of guys wearing those jerseys and standing in the box while the zamboni scrapes up all the pink ice that the refs don't like the texture of
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Mar 8, 2014 23:19
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Good to know that high schoolers have the same cool down routine that I do after a bad day at work
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Mar 10, 2014 15:31
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The hockey gods demand a sacrifice Q Row 2 has already offered up this year's Blades season. What more can we do? 
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Mar 12, 2014 02:43
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Pleads posted:Statistically, and based on the quality of team they play, it's Brandon's and PA's berth to lose. But us bitter Blades fans are pulling hard for PA to lose and Red Deer to win tonight, resulting a chance for the Blades to play spoiler for the home and home. Nothing motivates a team to perform like destroying your rival's playoff hopes. The PA-Saskatoon rivalry is legendary, or at least it used to be back in the day. Part of our spitefulness is based on trying to reignite that rivalry, since most of the PA games this year have been pretty tame compared to last year. Maybe we'll see some sparks this weekend if they're fighting for their lives!
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Mar 12, 2014 16:15
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Pleads posted:Please wallow away forever in podunk Alberta, Shinkaruk, you fuckin' bum  IT'S HAPPENING 
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Mar 13, 2014 05:21
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Pleads can gently caress himself
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Mar 13, 2014 05:26
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An informative graph on what PA's playoff chances are if they lose to Saskatoon (and Brandon beats Regina) tomorrow: GO. BLADES. GO. checksin fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 15:06
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Rosetown is a dirty town that gets me down E: can we merge the western canada thread into this one, they're basically the same thing In hockey news, the Blades ticket guy informs me that the season-ender is expecting about 10k in attendance and will feature more fireworks than a Shawn Michaels ring entrance. Should be a good time. checksin fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 17:56
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Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Hockey Team has a good chance to come out of the East in my opinion. You're drawing a relatively bad Red Deer or Brandon in the first round and Medicine Hat is down basically everyone worth mentioning (hahahahaha Shinkaruk hahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA HE'S HURT HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH), so getting out of the second round isn't really all that hard to do. The road to the Memmer is going through Kelowna no matter what, so it's just a matter of whether you face Edmonton or Calgary in the East finals. I'd pull for them over any other team in this shithole conference.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:35
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Edmonton totally 2006 Swedened that game and I love them for it
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Mar 17, 2014 16:11
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Congratulations to the Saskatoon Blades for winning the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft Lottery! Except you traded away your 2014 first round pick to the Wheat Kings last year for an overager. Congratulations to the Brandon Wheat Kings for winning the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft Lottery!
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Southpaw posted:calling it a night for this crappy post. Hey, no worries pal, we all make bad posts sometimes. Here, I'll fix yours up for you: Southpaw posted:Hello, another CHL fan here, well, gently caress the Q...and the O. WHL fan here. The Saskatoon Blades
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Mar 21, 2014 15:01
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are the team you should root for. Why you ask? Well, if you like tracking prospects then this is your team. Featuring soon-to-be drafted prospects such as;
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@JasonGregor: Strange ruling for tomorrow's #WHL game in Edmonton. If it goes to OT, they play 1 period then go to shoot out due to Oiler/Flames game. https://twitter.com/jasongregor/status/447126286742609920 Absolute drop-dead bullshit. An important playoff matchup featuring the best team in the conference bumped for two mathematically eliminated garbage fires
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Mar 21, 2014 23:10
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Knapp is a sieve/drain/swiss cheese/tryptophobia
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Stickarts posted:I'm up here all the friggin' time. If I ever end up knowing about a night off in advance I will bring it up in the LAN thread. I'd say we should go see some hockey but... We'll take you to our local watering hole and watch hockey there In hockey news, yessss huskies yessss
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a false posted:doesn't prince albert have the only jersey in the chl that doesn't use an NHL template? In the sense that they're using an RBK Edge template that no team in the NHL currently uses, yes. Every team in the CHL, AHL, and NHL is using one of the cookie cutters that Reebok makes in one form or another. I think PA's new jerseys are a test batch for a bunch of variants Reebok came up with: the priest collar, the triangle stripe sleeves and the shiny gold fabric are all things that nobody else is using yet. Wouldn't surprise me to see an NHL team that's due for a rebrand using those sleeves to recapture the old spiky triangle shoulders from the 90s. Pittsburgh or Florida maybe?
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fits posted:University of Alberta Golden Bears win their 14th CIS University Cup 3-1 today In related news I haven't seen a victory in that rink since January
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7lip posted:No.
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Christ this Calgary-Kootenay series is giving me a heart attack. Maybe it's the easily excited play-by-play man on Shaw or the piss-poor eighties goaltending, but I am enjoying every second of this shitshow series. Can't wait for it to go back to a building that's not 1/4 full despite only being 3000 seats
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The signs and considerable number of security people everywhere were a good indicator that any actual violence against us (except our feelings )wouldn't have been tolerated
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Mar 26, 2014 17:55
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eat all the poo poo, prince albert
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Mar 27, 2014 10:41
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That Kootenay-Calgary series is going to seven games and will break the record for most goals scored in dub history. No question. I have loved every second of that series
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whatis posted:People that watch the WHL more frequently: does Draisaitl always look so terribly slow? I caught a couple of PA's games streamed online and his skating looked goddamn awful. I know it's considered to be one of his weaknesses, but in my admittedly limited viewing, it was worryingly apparent Yup, he's always that slow and lumbering. I've seen him play a dozen times and I have no idea why he's so high up in the draft. Actually, that's a lie, he's up there because he's gigantic and size is still A Thing e: oh and the 105 points i guess checksin fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Mar 28, 2014 |
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