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Warriors claim overager Ginnell off waivers from Spokane

Veteran left-winger put up 13 goals and 23 points in 50 games with Winnipeg and Spokane last season
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The Moose Jaw Warriors claimed Brad Ginnell off waivers from the Spokane Chiefs on Friday.

The Moose Jaw Warriors took a step towards adding a bit more age and experience to their line-up on Friday morning, claiming overage forward Brad Ginnell off waivers from the Spokane Chiefs.

The Calgary native joins forward Tate Popple as the only 20-year-old in the team’s line-up and brings plenty of experience to a squad in the second year of a massive rebuilding project.

Selected in the fifth round of the 2016 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft by the Portland Winterhawks, Ginnell entered the league with an impressive resume, having put up 40 goals and 80 points for the Calgary Royals the Alberta Elite Hockey League’s Under-16 league.

Ginnell scored six times and had 10 points in 51 games in his rookie season with Portland and split the following campaign between the Winterhawks and the Kootenay Ice, scoring eight goals and 19 points in 61 games as a 17-year-old.

In the 2018-19 season in Kootenay, Ginnell was the last-place squad’s third-leading scorer with 16 goals and 41 points in 68 games. He started last year with the Ice in Winnipeg and had 10 goals and 17 points before being traded to Spokane, where Ginnell scored another three goals and six points in the final 16 games of the season.

Ginnell also brings an impressive family resume to the Warriors.

His father, Erin Ginnell, has been an NHL scout since the turn of the century, serving as the director of amateur scouting for the Florida Panthers from 2011 through 2016. He currently works with the Vegas Golden Knights.

Grandfather Pat Ginnell is a Western Hockey League coaching legend, having most famously coached the Bobby Clarke-led Flin Flon Bombers to the Western Canadian Hockey League championship in 1968-69.

The Warriors, like the rest of the WHL, are currently in a holding pattern as the league has no plans to start before the December of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and have yet to release a schedule.

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