Monday 9 September 2019

TRADE TREE: From Teagan Sacher to Dino Kambeitz (and Alex Cotton)

Welcome back to the blog, everyone!

Hope everyone is getting excited for another WHL season! Plenty to get ready for and with training camps still underway, I didn't want to do any preview-like blogs just in case an unexpected trade or cut happened. That and I'm awful at actually guessing how good a team is going to be from year to year.

When we posted that the blog would be returning on Facebook, we asked for thoughts on possible subjects to talk about. Marissha came through with "the Lethbridge-Victoria trade."

I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm assuming she was talking about last month's deal that saw the Hurricanes send defenseman Nolan Jones to the Royals for forward Dino Kambeitz and a fourth-rounder in the 2020 WHL Bantam Draft.

Believe it or not, after a little digging, I discovered Kambeitz has a couple of roundabout connections to Lethbridge prior to him being traded here.


We'll start this trade tree off with Jones. The Hurricanes picked him in the second round, 41st overall in the 2016 bantam draft. That was actually their pick so that’s kind of where the trade tree ends there.

It's a different story when it comes to Kambeitz. He was selected in the fifth round, 90th overall by the Royals. It’s actually the second pick of the round and that year, guess who had that pick? 

The Lethbridge Hurricanes.

So how did it get into the hands of the Royals? A little bit of a story here.

Back in November 2013, the Hurricanes needed a goalie. So they sent their fifth round pick in the 2015 draft to Regina for Teagan Sacher. He ended up playing in 22 games for the Canes that season before heading to the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s Selkirk Steelers.

The fifth-rounder was moved once more in January 2014, when the Pats sent it along with a fifth-rounder in 2016 toVictoria for Isaac Schacher. The journeyman defenseman most recently played with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies.

If you think it all ends there? It sure doesn’t. That 5th round pick in 2016 was actually dealt by the Royals to Lethbridge a year later. The Hurricanes acquired it for Bryton Sayers. What did they do with that pick? They took defenseman Alex Cotton.

So just to recap: a trade six years ago for a goaltender is still having some ramifications for the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

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