OCN Acquires Waskewitch From Battlefords

On the sport report last night Blizzard GM Derek Fontaine alluded to two moves to bring in some help offensively.

Justin Waskewitch

The first was Roger Tagoona which was announced earlier today, and now the Blizzard have acquired 5'11 180lb RW Justin Waskewitch from Battlefords North Stars of the SJHL, in return the Blizzard have sent future considerations to Battlefords.

Waskewitch is a 20 year old from Cut Knife, Saskatchewan who picked up 51 points in 47 games with Nipawin last season.

Waskewitch started the season with the Ochapawace Thunder of the Prairie Junior Hockey League due to personal reasons and had his rights dealt from Nipawin to Battlefords.

Throughout his SJHL career in parts of four seasons with three different teams Waskewitch has scored 38 goals and has picked up a total of 109 points in 152 games (according to the elite prospects numbers he's only played 14 games this season, in reality he has played 15), giving Waskewitch a 0.72 PPG

Today's acquisitions gives OCN some serious depth up front, and gives the Blizzard a legitimate top end player to play with TJ Constant and who ever is on his left wing.

The Blizzard will have seven top six forwards when Gray & TJ Constant return from injury. A good problem to have and will give the Blizzard more depth when inevitably more injuries hit the club.

Waskewitch will not play tomorrow night, he might play against Dauphin on Friday as paper work needs to get sorted out.

As for Tagoona he has a two games suspension from the SJHL to serve and will not play until Sunday in Swan Valley.

Tagoona practiced with the Blizzard today and Waskewitch will be in OCN tomorrow.

I have an interview set for 10 am with Blizzard GM Derek Fontaine.

I will post it here once it is finished, and will also run it during the second intermission of tomorrow's broadcast.

Here are Waskewitch's numbers