Biography
NHL: Selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in Round 7 (216th Overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft ... Had his NHL rights and Carolina’s 5th Round 2025 draft pick traded to the Philadelphia Flyers on Aug. 9, 2023 in exchange for David Kase ... Signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Philadelphia on April 17, 2024.
Honors and Awards: 2x NCAA National Champion (2021-22, 2023-24) … 2x AHCA (West) Second-Team All-American (2022-23, 2023-24) ... Team Alternate Captain (2023-24) … All-NCHC First Team (2022-23) ... All-NCHC Second Team (2023-24) … HCA National Player of the Month (October 2023) … NCHC Player of the Month (October 2023) … NCHC Rookie of the Month (October 2021) … 4x NCHC Forward of the Week (Jan. 9, 2023; Feb. 13, 2023; Oct. 30, 2023; Jan. 22, 2024) … NCHC Rookie of the Week (Oct. 11, 2021) … 3x NCHC Academic All-Conference Team (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24) ... Finalist for NCHC Forward of the Year (2022-23) ... Finalist for NCHC Rookie of the Year (2021-22) ... 2023 NCHC Preseason All-Conference Team … 2x DU’s Dallas Gaume Offensive Player Award (2022-23, 2023-24) ... 2x Hobey Baker Award nominee (2022-23, 2023-24)
2023-24: Repeated as an All-American on the West Second Team, the first Denver player to earn back-to-back national honors since Henrik Borgstrom in 2017 and 2018 … Finished second on the team and tied for eighth in the country with a career-high 34 assists while ranking third on DU and 22nd in the nation in overall scoring with 44 points in 30 games played … Added 10 goals while also posting a 1.47 points-per-game average, sixth-best in the NCAA during the year … Was among the nation’s leading scorers for most of the season before missing 14 games with a lower-body injury late in the campaign … Tied for second on the Pioneers with 14 power-play points (1g/13a) and produced a +24 plus/minus rating … Had 10 penalty minutes … Named an alternate captain on the team on Oct. 2 … Began the season at Alaska Fairbanks by registering seven combined assists in two games, recording three on Oct. 7 before setting a career high with four helpers on Oct. 8 … It was the most assists he produced in a two-game stretch in his college career (later tied) and at the time matched his personal best for points in a weekend (Oct. 28-29, 2022 at Miami, 1g/6a) … Recorded three of his four assists on Oct. 8 in the second period, the 49th time in school history that a player had that many helpers in a single frame … Bested the weekend performance in Alaska with an eight-point series (1g/7a) on Jan. 19-20 at Omaha, recording four points each night and matching a career high with four assists in the series finale … Was the first Pioneer to record consecutive four-point games and finish a weekend set with eight total points in all games going back to the start of the 2015-16 campaign … Recorded four of his five career four-point games during the season, as he also had a goal and three assists on Nov. 24 vs. Yale … Picked up a point in 22 of the 30 games he played and had eight multi-assist outings and 13 multi-point contests … Tallied at least a point in each of the first eight games from Oct. 7-Nov. 4 (5g/12a), a season-best stretch and the longest season-opening point streak by a DU player since Jarid Lukosevicius had points in each of his first nine contests in 2018-19 (8g/5a) … Matched a career long with a four-game goal streak from Oct. 20-28 (5g/2a) … Earned his first career NCHC Player of the Month and the HCA National Player of the Month (co-winner) awards for October after picking up 14 points (5g/9a) in six games … Picked up his 100th career point with an assist on Nov. 11 at Arizona State, becoming the 102nd member of the school’s century club … Reached the 100-point milestone in only 87 career games, the second-fastest Pioneer to accomplish the feat in the last decade behind only Dylan Gambrell’s (2018) 86 career games … Tied for the longest assist streak of the season by a Denver skater with a career-best seven-game run from Nov. 24-Jan. 5 (2g/10a) … Tallied two game-winning goals on the year, including his first career overtime-winning marker at 1:02 of the extra frame on Dec. 9 at Western Michigan—the fastest OT goal of the season by a Pioneer … Scored twice in the second period on Jan. 12 vs. St. Cloud State … Played his 100th career game on Jan. 19 at Omaha, where he had a goal and three assists and posted a +4 plus/minus rating … Missed 14 games and eight weeks from Feb. 16-March 30 with a lower-body injury before returning to the lineup for the NCAA Frozen Four Semifinals vs. Boston University on April 11 and Championship Game vs. Boston College on April 13 to help the Pioneers capture their record 10th national title and his second (also 2022) … Represented Team Canada at the 2023 Spengler Cup on Dec. 26-31 in Davos, Switzerland … Recorded two assists in four games as the first NCAA player to suit up for the Canadians at the invitational tournament in Europe since DU’s own Ian Mitchell also did so in 2019 … Signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Philadelphia Flyers after the season on April 17 … Attended the Carolina Hurricanes’ summer development camp in July 2023 before having his NHL rights traded to Philadelphia on Aug. 9 … Finished his collegiate career tied for 44th in program history in scoring with 126 points on 39 goals and 87 assists in 107 career games … His 1.18 career points-per-game average is the most among Denver 100-point scorers in the modern era (since 1990) and tied for 34th all-time among club members.
2022-23: Led the Pioneers and the entire NCHC in overall scoring during the season with a career-high 46 points (17g/29a) … Also led the NCHC with 31 points (11g/20a) in 24 league games … First on DU with 29 assists and second in goals with 17 behind linemate Carter Mazur (22) … Finished 11th overall in the nation in points and tied for 12th in assists … Paced the Pioneers with 12 multi-point outings and recorded at least a point in 29 of the 38 games he played … Led Denver with 19 power-play points (5g/14a) and ranked fourth on the squad with five man-advantage tallies … Finished second on the team in both faceoff wins (332-of-643) and winning percentage (.516) … Second on the squad with 121 shots and a +24 plus/minus rating (tied) … Led all DU forwards and ranked sixth overall on the team with 23 blocked shots … Recorded a career-long, 11-game point streak from Nov. 26-Jan. 14 (6g/8a), which was the fourth-longest by a DU player since the 2005-06 season and tied for the fifth-longest in the NCAA during the year … It was his third such points stretch of at least six games in his collegiate career … Scored a goal in four straight games from Nov. 26-Dec. 9 (4g/0a) … Began the season with a three-game assist streak (0g/3a) … Picked up an assist in six consecutive contests from Oct. 21-Nov. 5 (4g/10a), tied for the longest of the season by a Pioneer … Went on a five-game, multi-point streak from Oct. 21-Nov. 4, tied for the second-longest multi-point streak by a Pioneer since 2005 and longest such stretch by a Denver skater since Troy Terry's five-game multi-point run from Oct. 21-Nov. 4, 2018 … Set a career high with four points (1g/3a) on Oct. 29 at Miami, matching a season high for the most in a game during the season by a DU player … Had three points in the third period vs. Miami on Oct. 29, tied for the most points in a frame during the year by a DU skater … Also recorded his 50th career point and fired a team season-high 10 shots in the Oct. 29 contest … Recorded three assists the previous day on Oct. 28 at Miami and had points on seven of DU's eight goals over the weekend and five primary assists … Was the first Denver skater with a seven-point weekend since Carter Savoie (4g/3a) on Oct. 15-16, 2021 vs. Air Force … Picked up his first NCHC Forward of the Week award after combining for three points (2g/1a) on Jan. 6-7 vs. Alaska Fairbanks … Went on a seven-game point streak from Feb. 4-25 (6g/7a) … Scored on Feb. 10 vs. North Dakota and added three points (1g/2a) the next night en route to earning his second NCHC Forward of the Week award … Played in his 50th career game on Nov. 11 at North Dakota … Earned his 50th career assist on Feb. 17 vs. Minnesota Duluth … Did not play in the NCHC Quarterfinals vs. Miami on March 10-11 due to injury … Returned to the lineup for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff Semifinals vs. Colorado College on March 17 in St. Paul, Minn. … Attended Carolina Hurricanes NHL Development Camp in July 2022.
2021-22: Finished second among Denver freshmen with 36 points (12g/24a), helping the Pioneers win the NCAA Championship … Finished tied for fourth nationally among all freshmen in points and his 24 assists were tied for the fifth-most by a first-year player in the NCAA … Tallied 12 goals, tied for ninth in the country by a freshman … Was second on the team in faceoff-winning percentage (.527) and third in total faceoff wins (228) … Tied for fourth on DU with four game-winning goals … Second on the team in penalty minutes (48) and produced a +18 plus/minus rating … Made his collegiate debut and registered his first career points with a goal and assist in the season opener on Oct. 8 vs. Arizona State … Recorded his first multi-goal game with two tallies the next day on Oct. 9 vs. ASU to help him earn NCHC Rookie of the Week honors … Had three multi-goal and 12 multi-point outings during the year … Registered eight points in his first five games (5g/3a), including multiple points in four of those contests … Named NCHC Rookie of the Month for October with eight points (5g/3a) in six games … Scored a season-high two power-play goals on Dec. 4 at Arizona State … Went on a career-long six-game point streak from Nov. 12-Dec. 4 (4g/7a) and had 15 points (5g/10a) in a nine-game span from Nov. 12-Jan. 15 … Recorded a career-high three points (1g/2a) and his first game-winning goal on Nov. 19 vs. Miami … Also had a three-point game (1g/2a) on Jan. 15 vs. Omaha … Played in 39-of-41 games, missing Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 contests vs. Alaska Fairbanks … Recorded points in both games vs. Miami in the NCHC Quarterfinals on March 11-12 (1g/1a) … Registered points in both Frozen Four contests, collecting an assist in the semifinals vs. Michigan on April 7 and scoring in the NCAA Championship Game vs. Minnesota State on April 9.
Before Denver: Posted 43 goals, 80 assists and 70 penalty minutes in 132 career BCHL games for the Penticton Vees and Coquitlam Express … Did not play in any games in 2020-21 while a member of the BCHL’s Chilliwack Chiefs … Served as captain of the Vees during the 2018-19 season … Recorded 19 goals, 25 assists and 26 PIMs in 42 games for the Express in 2019-20 … Represented Canada at the 2018 & 2019 World Junior A Challenge, recording a total of four assists in 10 total games … Appeared in five games and totaled four points (1g/3a) with Canada Black at the 2017 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge … Product of Burnaby Winter Club.
