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Despite outshooting the Edmonton Oil Kings 33-16 in regulation time, the Saskatoon Blades found themselves tied with the visiting team 1-1 after 60 minutes of Western Hockey League action Saturday night.
But it only took one shot — a penalty shot — in overtime to seal the 2-1 victory for the Blades.
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At 42 seconds into the extra period, Brandon Lisowsky was on a breakaway when he got slashed, leading to the penalty shot in which he beat Oil Kings goaltender Kolby Hay blocker side to net the game winner.
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Before that the two teams were scoreless until the third period, when Saskatoon’s Easton Armstrong scored at 6:22 to take the 1-0 lead, but was followed at 18:23 by Edmonton’s Gracyn Sawchyn to tie the game and force overtime.
Evan Gardner stopped 16 of 17 shots on goal for the Blades, while Hay — who had stopped the previous three penalty shots he faced this season until Lisowksy’s attempt — made 32 saves on 34 shots.
Before the game, the Blades retired the jersey of all-time scoring great Frank Banham during a banner-raising ceremony at SaskTel Centre.
This was the second home game in as many night for the Blades, who defeated the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday 3-1.
Tanner Molendyk, Egor Sidorov and Fraser Minten, with an empty-net goal, each scored once for Saskatoon, which led 1-0 and 2-0 by periods.
Austin Elliott stopped 23 of 24 shots in the Saskatoon net as the Blades outshot the Tigers 28-24.
Zach Zahara, who was pulled twice for an extra attacker late in the third period for nearly three minutes overall, had 25 saves for Medicine Hat.
That game marked a milestone for Blades captain Trevor Wong, who earned his 250th career WHL point.
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