Prince George minor hockey products Chase Harrington, Cameron Schmidt and Ryder Green have been chosen to play for Team BC at the 2023 Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island.
Following tryouts over the weekend in Whistler, the three 15-year-olds learned they will join their provincial teammates on the ice in Charlottetown for the men’s hockey tournament during the first week of the Canada Games, Feb. 19-25.
Harrington, listed at six feet, 165 pounds, is a forward who currently leads his Delta Hockey Academy U-18 Prep team in scoring with eight goals and 14 assists for 22 points in just 14 games.
The five-foot-eight, 146-pound Schmidt, also a forward, has been limited by injury to just three games with the Rink Academy U-18s in Kelowna and he has two goals and one assist.
Schmidt was selected seventh overall by the Vancouver Giants in the 2022 WHL Prospects Draft, just ahead of the eighth-overall Harrington, who went to the Spokane Chiefs. Harrington made his WHL debut Oct 22 for the Chiefs in a game against the Seattle Thunderbirds in Kent, Wash.
Green, a goaltender for the Cariboo Cougars U-17 triple-A team in the BC Elite Hockey League is undefeated this season in regulation time. He sports am 8-0-1-1 record and 2.72 goals-against average and has helped the Cougars climb to fourth place in the 10-team league with a 14-4-1-2 record.
Seventeen-year-old Hailey Armstrong of Dawson Creek, who played two seasons for the Prince George-based Northern Capitals and now skates at Rink Academy U-18s in Kelowna, was selected for the BC women’s team for Canada Games. The women’s hockey tournament runs from Feb. 27-March 5 in Charlottetown.
The five-foot-two, 126-pound Armstrong has eight goals and six assists for 14 point sin 17 games at Rink Academy. She’s also part of Canada’s U-18 national women’s team.
