Prince Albert Daily Herald
Photo Courtesy of Keith Hershmiller/WHL Ozzy Wiesblatt, left, and Evan Herman celebrate after Wiesblatt opened the scoring for the Prince Albert Raiders in Thursday s 4-0 win over the Saskatoon Blades.
While the Saskatoon Blades won this year’s season series over the Prince Albert Raiders, the Raiders were able to prevent their archrivals from sweeping all four of their meetings in the Western Hockey League’s East Division hub in Regina with an impressive 4-0 performance on Thursday afternoon.
“I’ve been a part of some pretty big wins here with the Raiders and this is right up there,” Raiders forward Ozzy Wiesblatt said.
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After being one of the few hockey players in the world to have played meaningful hockey in the past year, Ozzy Wiesblatt stole the show for the Prince Albert Raiders.
Wiesblatt scored the Raiders’ first goal of their unprecedented hub centre season in Regina, and added two assists to lead the Raiders to a 6-3 victory over the hosting Regina Pats. He even got into a fight in the third period with Pats defender Kyle Walker.
Wiesblatt credited his big night to his hustling linemates Evan Herman and Reece Vitelli. On Wiesblatt’s first goal just 3:53 into the first period, Herman won the puck on the wall, slid it over to Vitelli who then found Wiesblatt in front.
SASKATOON Many aspects of the World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton will be different because of COVID-19. Even the way the three Saskatchewan-born players found out they made the team was different. Yorkton-born Defenceman Kaeden Korczak’s mom Tricia says she got an email from Hockey Canada letting her know that he made the team, and a Zoom call followed an hour later. “The coach was there and he said ‘Are you ready?’ and knocked on Kaeden’s door,” she said. “So I said to him ‘Well, you got some bad news this morning’ and so he was just looking at me on the phone and I said ‘the bad news is that you re not going to be home for Christmas.’ And he just smiled.”
Canada’s World Junior team has three Saskatchewan players on it By Mitchell Blair
Dec 11, 2020 3:00 PM
When Canada takes to the ice at Rogers Place in Edmonton for the first game of the 2021 World Junior Hockey Championship, there will be three players representing Saskatchewan.
Hockey Canada announced what 25 players will don the maple leaf at the tournament and on the list are Saskatoon’s Connor Zary, Prince Albert’s Braden Schneider and Kaeden Korczak of Yorkton. All three play in the Western Hockey League and are amongst nine Western Hockey League players that will be on the Canadian team.
Zary, who plays for the Kamloops Blazers, was selected in the first round, 24th overall in the 2020 NHL Draft by the Calgary Flames. During the 2019-20 season, Zary had 38 goals, 48 assists and 86 points in 57 games.