The Vernon Vipers have acquired the playing
rights to 19 year old defenceman Landon Young and 18 year old goaltender Spencer Michnik from the Sherwood Park Crusaders as future considerations, completing a trade from February 9th 2025.
Here is the report from the BCHL website,
Transactions | BCHL League Site
On February 9th 2025 The Sherwood Park Crusaders acquired the playing rights to 20 year old defenceman Marko Stojkov from the Vernon Vipers in exchange for the playing rights to 19 year old defenceman Eddie Revenig and 17 year old forward Michael Munroe and future considerations.
Young split the 2024-25 season with the Western Hockey League Wenatchee Wild & Victoria Royals. Young has played parts of the past three seasons in the Western Hockey League with the Winnipeg Ice, Wenatchee Wild & Victoria Royals. The Royals signed Young December 2nd 2024. In 10 games last season with the Wild, Young collected (0-goals-1-assist-1-point). In 39 games with the Royals last season, Young collected (0-goals-7-assists-7-points).
Landon Young's Player Profile:
Landon Young - Stats, Contract, Salary & More
Michnik split the 2024-25 season with the Western Hockey League Victoria Royals and the BCHL Sherwood Park Crusaders. Michnik has played the past two seasons with the Western Hockey League Seattle Thunderbirds, Victoria Royals and the BCHL Sherwood Park Crusaders. The Crusaders signed Michnik January 10th 2025. In 12 games with the Royals last season, Michnik went 5-5-1 with a 3.77 GAA In 14 games with the Crusaders last season, Michnik went 10-4 with a 3.23 GAA
Spencer Michnik's Player Profile:
Spencer Michnik - Stats, Contract, Salary & More
6 comments:
Will Landon Young report to Vernon or continue playing in the Western Hockey League? Not the biggest kid, didn't put up big numbers but has Major Junior experience.
I like the addition of Spencer Michnik. No word if Logan Cunningham will be back this season, so the Vipers will have at least one goaltender now if Cunningham doesn't return. Michnik is only 18 years old, brings some Junior hockey experience. Not great numbers in the Western Hockey League but went 10-4 with Sherwood Park last season.
Once again the Vipers poor coverage continues. They can't even tell us about the trades that happened? This is the first real news we have heard this off season. No word on who is returning from last season, has the team signed/committed to any players for the upcoming season? will we see more trades to fill out the 2025-26 roster?
Can you list the players eligible to return to the Vipers?
This is the list I came up with, but all of these players could go to camp with a WHL team or go back to Hockey Canada's leagues like the AJHL, SJHL or even go to the USHL or whatever. But eligible to return are: Quaschnik, Harvey, Lominac, DeGraves, Ideback, Kallay, Cunningham, Bydal, Baar, and Heidecker. Koji Gibson has an NCAA scholarship for 2027-28 and he COULD return.
I was surprised by the number of last years players who are listed on www.collegecommitments.com as having scholarships. Dolzhenko, Nilsson, Revenig, Munroe, Pastro, Zimmer, Blanck, Grimes, and Kresl all for 2025-26 and Gibson for 2027-28. Simon Binkley got a scholarship while at Vernon but went to Moncton when the NCAA rules changed.
The BCHL operating outside Hockey Canada, the changes in the NCAA scholarship rules, and the general state of the Vipers makes a list of returnees very uncertain.
Thanks Bert Olmstead, I have been meaning to go through the Vipers 2024-25 roster to see who is eligible to return this season.
Were into June and teams have been busy releasing new player signings/committed players etc and the Vipers haven't said anything. Do they even have any players committed for the 2025-26 season?
Nobody wants to play for these guys....
So, not true, did you go to the Spring Camp, lots of players there that want to play for the Vipers!
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