A total of 15 players from the local Western Hockey League franchise are taking the ice across the league, ranging from established veterans looking to put together all-star seasons to youngsters looking to finally break into the league, and everything in between.
Here’s a quick look at who is where, and how things are looking coming off of last season.
Dylan McIlrath -- Detroit Red Wings, 28
McIlrath played for the Warriors for four seasons from 2008-09 through 2011-12.
Drafted 10th overall by the New York Rangers in 2010, McIlrath has played parts of six NHL seasons with New York, Florida and Detroit. He’s played 66 NHL games in that time, scoring three times, five points and racking up 121 penalty minutes.
McIlrath suited up for 16 games with Detroit last season and had no points. He spent the majority of the campaign with the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins, playing 44 games and picking up eight assists and 73 PIMs.
Joel Edmundson is in camp with the Montreal Canadiens. | NHL.comJoel Edmundson -- Montreal Canadiens, 27
Edmundson played three seasons with the Warriors from 2010-11 through 2012-13 and was drafted in the second round, 46th overall, by the St. Louis Blues in the 2011 NHL Draft.
He broke into the NHL in 2015-16 with the Blues and won the Stanley Cup with St. Louis in 2019.
In six NHL seasons, Edmundson has played 337 games, scoring 20 goals and 72 points along with 320 PIMs. Last season, Edmundson played 68 games with the Carolina Hurricanes, scoring seven times and putting up 20 points. He was traded to the Canadiens in the off-season.
Brayden Point -- Tampa Bay Lightning, 24A Warriors standout for five seasons from 2011-12 through 2015-16, Point was drafted in the third round, 79th overall by Tampa Bay in 2014 and is considered one of the top players in the NHL, having scored 41 goals and 92 points in the 2018-19 season and helping lead the Lightning to the 2020 Stanley Cup.
In five seasons, 295 games, Points has 116 goals and 262 points. Last season, Point played 66 games, scoring 25 goals and 64 points.
He signed a three-year extension worth $6.75M per year in 2019.
Howden played four seasons in Moose Jaw from 2014-15 through 2017-18 and was drafted in the first round, 27th overall by Tampa Bay. He was traded to the Rangers in the 2018 season and has played the last two campaigns in New York, suiting up for 136 games and scoring 15 goals and 42 points.
Last season, Howden played 70 games, scoring nine goals and 19 points.
Tanner Jeannot -- Nashville Predators, 23Jeannot’s hard work with the Warriors for four seasons from 2014-15 through 2017-18 saw him signed as a free agent by Nashville after his overage season.
He played two seasons with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, playing 94 games and scoring 12 goals and 31 points. Last season was split between Milwaukee, where he played 57 games and had five goals and 20 points, along with three games with the ECHL’s Florida Everblades, where he put up four goals and five points.
In five games with the Everblades this season, Jeannot had three goals and six points.
Brayden Tracey -- Anaheim Ducks, 20Tracey played two and a half seasons with the Warriors from in 2017-18 through 2019-20, and was traded to the Victoria Royals in a blockbuster trade deadline deal last season.
Tracey was drafted by the Ducks in the first round, 29th overall, in 2019.
He played 52 games in total last season between Moose Jaw and Victoria, scoring 21 goals and 62 points.
Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly will wear an ‘A’ with the team this season. | NHL.comMorgan Rielly -- Toronto Maple Leafs, 26
Rielly played three seasons for the Warriors from 2010-11 through 2012-13 and was drafted by the Maple Leafs fifth overall in the 2012 entry draft. Since then, he’s become one of the top defenceman in the NHL and is an assistant captain with the Leafs.
In eight seasons, he’s played 517 games, scoring 54 goals and 270 points. Last season he played 47 games, scoring three goals and 27 points.
Rielly signed a six-year contract extension in 2016 and has wore the ‘A’ the last four seasons.
Hunt played one season with the Warriors in 2015-16, but emerged as a standout with 116 points. He signed as a free agent with the Florida Panthers after that season.
Hunt has split the last three seasons between Florida and the Springfield Thunderbirds, playing 63 NHL games and scoring three goals and 15 points, as well as 214 AHL games with 72 goals and 150 points.
He signed a one-year deal with the Coyotes this past off-season.
Brayden Burke -- Arizona Coyotes, 24Burke played two seasons with the Warriors in 2016-17 and 2017-18 and was one of the league’s top scorers both seasons.
He signed with the Coyotes after his over-age season and has played the last two years with the AHL’s Tucson Roadrunners.
In that time, Burke has played 118 games, scoring 34 goals and 85 points.
Ryan Stanton -- Edmonton Oilers, 31A defensive stalwart for the Warriors from 2006-07 through 2009-10, Stanton signed with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010 after his overage season.
Since that time, Stanton has played parts of five NHL seasons, playing 120 games and scoring four goals and 27 points, most recently with the Vancouver Canucks and including stops with the Blackhawks and Washington Capitals.
Stanton has spent the last six seasons in the AHL and has played 10 seasons total in the league with 479 games, 24 goals and 121 points.
Kale Clague -- Los Angeles Kings, 22Clague joined the Warriors for the second half of the 2017-18 season at the trade deadline. He was drafted in the second round, 51st overall in the 2016 NHL Draft as a member of the Brandon Wheat Kings.
Clague is signed by the Kings and payed four games in L.A. in 2019-20.
The majority of his time the past two campaigns hasbeen spent with the Ontario Reign of the AHL, where he had eight goals and 25 points last year.
Noah Gregor -- San Jose Sharks, 22Gregor played for the Warriors from 2015-16 through the first half of 2017-18 before being traded to Victoria. Drafted in the fourth round, 111th overall by San Jose in 2016, Gregor returned to the WHL for his overage season and helped lead the Prince Albert Raiders to the 2019 WHL championship.
Gregor split last season between the Sharks and AHL San Jose Barracuda. He score three goals and five points in 28 games in the NHL, seven goals and 19 points in 25 AHL games.
Jayden Halbgewachs -- San Jose Sharks, 23Halbgewachs played four seasons with the Warriors from 2014-15 through 2017-18, recording back-to-back 100-point plus campaigns in the 19- and 20-year-old campaigns to go along with tying the franchise single-season goal scoring mark with 70 goals in his overage year.
Halbgewachs signed with San Jose during his record-tying campaign and spent the last two seasons with the Barracuda, playing 119 games and scoring 32 goals and 70 points. Last season he had 19 goals and 35 points in 55 games.
Former Warriors defenceman Travis Hamonic is on a professional try-out contract with the Vancouver Canucks. | NHL.comHamonic played four seasons with the Warriors from 2006-08 through 2009-10 before joining the Brandon Wheat Kings in a trade deadline deal.
Drafted by the New York Islanders in the second round, 53rd overall in 2008, Hamonic spent seven seasons with the Islanders and the last three campaigns with the Calgary Flames.
In 11 NHL seasons, Hamonic has played 637 games, scoring 37 goals and 188 points. Last season in Calgary he played 50 games and scored three goals and 12 points before opting out of the rest of the campaign in order to protect his daughter from potentially catching COVID-19.
Hamonic signed a pro tryout contract on Jan. 3 with the Canucks.
Jett Woo -- Vancouver Canucks, 20Woo played three seasons with the Warriors from 2016-17 through 2018-19 and was traded to the Calgary Hitmen in the 2019 off-season.
A regular on Hockey Canada teams, Woo was drafted in the second round, 37th overall in the 2018 NHL Draft.
Woo played last season in Calgary with the Hitmen, putting up seven goals and 46 points in 64 games.
