The Windsor Spitfires on Monday night acquired Shane Wright fresh off his winning world junior hockey gold with Canada.
Windsor also received a conditional 14th-round pick in 2025 from Kingston, which added forward Ethan Miedema, defenceman Gavin McCarthy and seven priority selections, or draft picks, including a second-rounder (from Ottawa) and third-rounder (Sault Ste. Marie) in 2023.
The Ontario Hockey League trade deadline was Tuesday at noon ET.
Wright captained the Canadian squad to a 3-2 win over the Czech Republic last Thursday in Halifax for its fourth gold medal in the past six years. Dylan Guenther scored twice and Wright had the other goal on his 19th birthday.
WATCH | Guenther’s OT winner in world junior final:
Dylan Guenther’s 3-2 overtime goal against the Czech Republic crowns Canada as back-to-back gold medal champions at world juniors.
A native of Burlington, Ont., he scored four goals and seven points in as many games at this year’s tournament after being drafted fourth overall last summer by the NHL’s Seattle Kraken.
He had a goal and assist in eight games with the Kraken and four goals in a five-game conditioning stint with their American Hockey League affiliate in Thousand Palms, Calif., before Seattle loaned Wright to Canada and subsequently returned him to Kingston after the world juniors.
Wright was granted exceptional-player status in April 2019 after dominating midget triple-A and entered the 2019-20 OHL season as a 15-year-old skater — a year earlier than normal — and amassed 39 goals and 66 points in 58 regular-season contests.
Frontenacs draft pick haul for Wright
- 2nd round 2023 (acquired from Ottawa)
- 3rd round 2023 (Sault Ste. Marie)
- 4th round 2024 (Niagara)
- 4th round 2025 (Niagara)
- 6th round 2024 (Niagara)
- 5th round 2024 (Hamilton) *conditional
- 6th round 2025 (Erie) *conditional
Miedema, 17, has posted 25 goals and 69 points in 101 OHL games (all with Windsor) including 31 points in 36 contests this season.
“Ethan is a highly touted NHL prospect that will play in the [Jan. 25 CHL/NHL] Top Prospects game,” Frontenacs general manager Kory Cooper said in a news release. “He is a big bodied [six-foot-four, 201-pound] skilled forward that will fit in well with our group. We know the player well and his strong work ethic matches the identity of our team.
Ethan is a player that is … constantly looking for ways to make himself and his teammates better. He is capable of playing top line minutes immediately.”
McCarthy, also, 17, has been playing with the Muskegon (Mich.) Lumberjacks of the United States Hockey League, amassing six goals and 31 points in 73 games over the last two seasons. The six-foot-one, 181-pound rearguard was drafted by Windsor in the eighth round in 2021.
“We are looking forward to having Gavin play in Kingston,” Cooper said, “especially with the potential of hosting the Memorial Cup in 2024. “He is a talented, highly rated defenceman for the upcoming NHL draft.”
WATCH | Canada captures world junior gold in Halifax:
Canada wins its second-straight gold at the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship in Halifax with a 3-2 overtime victory over Czech Republic.