Winnipeg Jets’ prospect Brayden Yager has been invited to the 2025 Nationwide Hockey League Gamers’ Affiliation (NHLPA) Rookie Showcase.
The showcase will happen on Sept. 3 on the Washington Capitals’ observe facility in Arlington, Virginia. It’s a probability for Upper Deck, the official buying and selling card accomplice of the NHLPA and NHL, to take pictures and movies for upcoming hockey playing cards and different promotional content material this season and past. The occasion is closed to the general public.
Yager Set to Flip Professional After Dominant 2024-25 in Juniors
Yager, a right-shooting centre, was undeniably one of many Western Hockey League’s premier gamers final season and has true NHL star potential. After being traded to the Lethbridge Hurricanes by the Moose Jaw Warriors in early December, he recorded 52 factors (14 targets, 38 assists) in simply 33 video games.
He was serving as Warriors captain on the time of the commerce and had 11 targets and 19 assists for 30 factors in 21 video games with them earlier than being dealt. After ending with a 82 factors between the golf equipment in 54 video games, he added eight targets and 6 assists for 14 factors in 16 playoff video games, however the Hurricanes have been swept within the third spherical by the Drugs Hat Tigers. He additionally repeated because the Canadian Hockey League’s Sportsmanlike Player of the Year.
Yager additionally captained Canada’s squad on the 2025 World Junior Championships and recorded three assists in 5 video games. Sadly, Canada had one other disappointing exhibiting and was ousted within the quarterfinal by Czechia for the second-straight match.
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The Jets acquired the 2023 14th-overall choose final summer time from the Pittsburgh Penguins for disgruntled 2022 first-rounder Rutger McGroarty. At 20, he has aged out of juniors and can begin 2025-26 with the Manitoba Moose within the American Hockey League. Whereas a pure centre, there’s probability he might be deployed on the wing early in his skilled profession as wing carries much less duty than centre.
