Saskatoon Blades trade veteran forward Lisowsky to Victoria Royals [Video]

The Saskatoon Blades started the new year off with a bang.

The team traded fifth-year veteran forward Brandon Lisowsky and a 2028 fifth-round draft pick to the Victoria Royals Thursday in exchange for overage forward Tanner Scott, a 2025 second-round draft pick and a 2026 second-round draft pick.

“It’s obviously not fun to trade a guy like Lisowsky,” Blades general manager Colin Priestner said. “It’s the first time I think I’ve ever traded a five-year guy that we drafted. He’s been a part of five great teams with us and a big part of those, and obviously he’s etched his place in history as one of the top goal scorers ever here.”

Priestner says he remembers FaceTiming Lisowsky when he was in junior high telling the then teenager the Blades were going to draft him. Now, nearly six years later, the 20-year-old forward is heading to Victoria in hopes of …