The Riche stuff: Off-season addition enjoying early success with Saskatoon Blades [Video]

The Saskatoon Blades were back on the ice Tuesday after a rare day off due to the snow on Monday.

The Bridge City Bunch are coming off a 4-3 overtime win in Medicine Hat on Saturday night, making their 15-6-1-1 record the best in the WHL’s Eastern Conference.

Blades’ leading scorer Ben Riche says it was a good way to right the ship after a 4-0 loss in Moose Jaw.

“It was huge,” said Riche, who has 33 points this season. “And to do it in their barn on a game-day travel, there was a lot of things that maybe couldn’t have went our way. But I think we came up with good energy, we played our game for as close to 60 minutes that I think we’ve had this year and then, got the job done in overtime.”

Slowed down by the winter storm that blew across the prairies …