Vancouver Giants land veteran defenceman in swap with Brandon Wheat Kings

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The Vancouver Giants have gone the commerce route with the Brandon Wheat Kings as soon as once more.

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Vancouver introduced Friday that they’d acquired 20-year-old defenceman Logen Hammett from Brandon in alternate for a fourth-round decide within the 2024 WHL Draft.

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Vancouver’s crew most precious participant final season was centre Ty Thorpe, an overager who got here to the Giants from the Wheat Kings in an August 2021 swap. Thorpe additionally took over the crew captaincy after Zack Ostapchuk was traded to Winnipeg on the January commerce deadline this previous season.

Hammett is a 6-foot-1, 190-pound left-handed shot with two full seasons of WHL expertise. He’s been a gentle, stay-at-home affect with Brandon — 4 targets, 37 factors in 144 profession video games — however Giants common supervisor Barclay Parneta thinks the Regina native might have extra to offer offensively as properly

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Groups can carry solely three 20 12 months olds and Vancouver completed final season with six 19 12 months olds: wingers Skyler Bruce and Kyle Bochek, centre Sammy Might, defencemen Carson Haynes and Brenden Pentecost and goaltender Brett Mirwald.

Brandon completed final season with six 19 12 months olds.

Hammett had 4 preventing majors final season and that included one for a bout in opposition to Bochek in a Oct. 14 recreation on the Langley Occasions Centre, which Brandon received 4-2. Bochek had laid a heavy verify on Brandon winger Ben Thornton close to the Wheat Kings’ bench simply earlier than the struggle. Bochek was tossed from the sport with a checking from behind main and wound up with a three-game suspension from the league workplace.

Vancouver went with a ahead, a defenceman and a goalie (Thorpe, Dylan Anderson and Jesper Vikman) for its three 20 12 months previous final season, a foward and two defencemen (Adam Corridor, Connor Horning, Alex Cotton) the season earlier than that and two fowards and one defenceman (Tristen Nielsen, Eric Florchuk and Alex Kannok Leipert) in 2020-21.

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