“It kind of gave me the shivers,” Wouters, the Saskatoon Blades’ captain, said after his team clinched a playoff spot Saturday while notching a 4-3 shootout victory over the visiting Kootenay Ice. That’s what I’ve been thinking the whole time.”The Blades are now 38-14-8-0, with eight games left in their regular-season schedule. “I didn’t think we played a great hockey game tonight,” Blades’ head coach Mitch Love said after a contest played before 4,334 onlookers. We’ve got some things we’ve got to tighten up. “This is my eighth consecutive season of playoff hockey,” he said.

Source: National Post February 24, 2019 05:15 UTC