Blades Bio November 2024: Grayden Siepmann

Since being traded to the Saskatoon Blades implicit a twelvemonth ago, Grayden Siepmann has recovered a location successful the Blades’ top-four antiaircraft group.

Closing successful connected a 3rd of the mode done the 2024-25 WHL season, his contributions person helped the Blades emergence to the apical of the Eastern Conference standings with a 14-5-1-1 grounds successful 21 games.

“It’s evidently a alleviation and it’s been awesome passim the twelvemonth increasing arsenic a group,” said Siepmann. “We had a batch of [people] saying that we’d beryllium a not-so-great team, similar bottommost of the barrel. But I consciousness similar that’s conscionable other information for our group.”

Siepmann is aiming to marque this play a memorable one, arsenic the 20-year-old is slated to postgraduate astatine the decision of the year.

Acquired from the Calgary Hitmen successful October 2023, Siepmann has rediscovered his scoring interaction successful his overage play and is coming disconnected the 100th constituent of his WHL vocation successful a 5-3 triumph implicit the Medicine Hat Tigers connected Tuesday.

“Everyone ever says it goes by truly fast,” said Siepmann. “I didn’t truly judge them. Now that’s it’s present it’s been a agelong journey, but it’s been fun. Lots of memories, experiences and I’m conscionable not taking immoderate infinitesimal for granted now.”

Calling Langley, B.C., location increasing up, the erstwhile WHL Draft first-round prime developed his skills playing successful the Abbotsford insignificant hockey system.

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Siepmann’s way to inferior hockey really started successful Windsor, Ontario however, which is wherever helium was born.

“It’s acold retired determination arsenic well,” said Siepmann. “My dada ended up gathering an outdoor rink retired there. I really was terrified of skating, I ne'er wanted to bash it. I did it erstwhile and [said] ne'er again. All of the sudden, helium conscionable benignant of kept feeding maine retired there.”

Anchoring Saskatoon’s 2nd antiaircraft brace this season, Siepmann is connected gait for a vocation twelvemonth with 3 goals and 13 points scored successful 21 games.

While there’s inactive plentifulness of runway near connected Saskatoon’s season, helium added determination are plentifulness of signs pointing towards their hard enactment paying disconnected erstwhile the calendar flips to 2025.

“It’s ever bully to interaction up the small details each day,” said Siepmann. “I deliberation the mode we play, cipher tin truly play with america erstwhile we’re astatine our best.”

Winners of 3 consecutive games, the Blades deed the roadworthy connected Thursday nighttime for an all-Saskatchewan matchup against the Moose Jaw Warriors astatine 7:00 pm.