Swetlikoff & Prokop Commit To Vipers:

This is on the Vipers twitter account:

Vernon Vipers‏ @VernonVipers

Aug 9 2017

With main camp right around the corner, the Vernon Vipers will be releasing player commitment news this week, and next!!! STAY TUNED!!!

COMMITMENT! the Vernon Vipers would like to welcome @YHA_U18 forward Alex Swetlikoff (@alexswetlikoff8) to the team! @CSSHL @YaleSportAcadmy

COMMITMENT! the Vernon Vipers are excited to have @CSSHL U18 top scorer @NAXHAPREP Josh Prokop (@joshprokop11) join the Snakes for 2017/18

"We feel like both of these players (Prokop/Swetlikoff) are major acquisitions for our Hockey Club and they will both be important pieces of the Vernon Vipers not just for next season, but for the future as well. We are really excited" - Head Coach Mark Ferner on new recruits

This is posted on Gregg Drinnan's Blog:

August 9th 2017

The BCHL’s Vernon Vipers announced on Wednesday that they have signed F Alex Swetlikoff, 16, and F Josh Prokop, 17. . . . Swetlikoff, from Kelowna, was grabbed by the Seattle Thunderbirds in the third round of the WHL’s 2016 bantam draft. He has committed to Denver U for 2020-21. Last season, he had 19 goals and 26 assists in 28 games with the Yale Hockey Academy prep team in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League. . . . Prokop, from Edmonton, was a fifth-round selection by the Swift Current Broncos in the fifth round of the WHL’s 2015 bantam draft. Last season, Prokop had 29 goals and 28 assists in 30 games with the CSSHL’s Northern Alberta X-Treme prep side. . . . “We feel like both of these players are major acquisitions for our hockey club,” Mark Vernon, the Vipers’ head coach, said, “and they will both be important pieces of the Vernon Vipers, not just for next season, but for the future as well. We are really excited.”