Oil Kings announce trade that brings Sherwood Park goalie to Edmonton – Edmonton | 24CA News
The Edmonton Oil Kings introduced Thursday night time that the membership has traded a fifth-round draft choose in 2025 to the Victoria Royals in trade for goaltender Logan Cunningham.
The 17-year-old goaltender from Sherwood Park, Alta., had performed in 9 Western Hockey League video games with the Royals this season however had but to be credited with a win. He additionally performed two video games for the Royals final season.
“Logan is a goaltender we are familiar with,” Oil Kings common supervisor Kirt Hill mentioned in a submit on the group’s web site. “The opportunity to add another young goaltender to our group was something we had to strongly consider to continue to build our organization’s goaltending depth.”
Hill mentioned Cunningham would be part of the Edmonton membership on Friday.
Cunningham has beforehand performed minor hockey with the Northern Alberta Xtreme U18 Prep group. The goaltender was drafted by the Royals in 2020 with that membership’s a hundred and fiftieth total choose within the seventh spherical of the WHL Prospects Draft.
The Oil Kings have made a variety of mid-season trades this 12 months to revamp the membership’s roster and construct for the longer term. The group misplaced a variety of gamers to the NHL from final season’s group that captured the WHL championship.
The WHL commerce deadline is Jan. 10.
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The Oil Kings (4-30-1-0) presently sit in final place within the WHL’s Eastern Conference standings.
The group’s subsequent recreation will see gamers face off towards the Red Deer Rebels at Rogers Place on Friday night time.
