Blades look to close out series, while Pats try to stay alive in Game 6

After dropping the first two games of the series to open the WHL playoffs, the Saskatoon Blades have won three straight and will look to end its first round series against the Regina Pats.

Game 6 goes Saturday night at the Brand Centre where the Blades will try to close it out on the road.

“Just be ready for the ups and downs and be ready to stick with it. It’s been a crazy series,” Blades Head Coach Brennan Sonne said following Friday’s 4-2 home ice victory that gave the Blades a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven first round playoff series.

While the Pats on the otherhand have to shake off that loss quickly in order to keep their season alive.

“You gotta have a short memory and comeback and play the next game. Just like they did after losing the first one and then again, they had a short memory and they came back,” Pats Head Coach John Paddock said.

“There’s no time for frustrations. There’s just time for being ready to play and playing right.”

He added that it should be Regina’s best game of the season, but Paddock also knows how good of a team the Blades are so it won’t be an easy task.

Meanwhile, Sonne knows that they’ll be in a tough battle and they have to be ready for it.

“We need to be cognizant that their going to come out really hard. We’re going to have to weather storms, there’s going to be momentum changes,” Sonne said ahead of Game 6.

The players know what’s at stake too and they can’t take anything for granted, because in the end, it’s the playoffs.

“It’s just another game. It’s a knockout game, it’s going to be their hardest push of the series, I’d say. Their fighting for their lives and I think every guy in that locker room is ready to push back,” Blades defenceman Tanner Molendyk said.

Puckdrop at the Brandt Centre is 7 p.m. and if there is a Game 7, that will take place in Saskatoon on Monday.