Friday’s Hot Clicks: WHL Draft Brings Us Glorious Canadian Hockey Names

This is the future of hockey
The WHL draft is an extremely underrated annual sports event. Yes, it’s only the allocation of a bunch of 15-year-old hockey players to a league of junior teams in western Canada, but where else do you learn so many spellings of “Brayden?”
Each draft provides a revealing look at the naming customs in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia in a given year (with a few Americans sprinkled in). The year’s draft is for players born in 2004, so with any luck by 2025 the NHL will be full of guys named Cayden, Kaden and Kayden, plus Jaden, Jadon and Jayden.
The 2019 WHL Bantam Draft has concluded. Here is this year's list of notable first names. pic.twitter.com/MEKi5GrJ1U
— Adam Herman (@AdamZHerman) May 2, 2019
Here are a few of my favorite names from this year’s edition:
• Ryder Ringor
• Ridge Dawson
• Dallyn Peekeekoot
• Kylynn Olafson
• Jagger Firkus
• Jayden Joly
• Hunter Mayo
• Rylen Roersma
• Flynn Maxcy
• Oasiz Wiesblatt
• Kyren Gronick
Just looking at the list doesn’t do the draft justice, though. There was a spectacularly alliterative sequence of picks in which Kyle Kelsey was picked right after Cyle Clayton. You also had back-to-back Logans (Cunningham and McCutcheon) go in the third round.
Talk about a heads up play
The Blue Jackets lost to the Bruins, 4–1, to even their series at 2–2 but it could have been a shutout for Boston if Columbus’s Artemi Panarin hadn’t made this slick play.
In the first period, a shot deflected up into the netting behind the goal but the officials missed it and play wasn’t whistled dead. While everyone else stopped playing, Panarin put the puck in the back of the net.
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Not cool, Ben
Ben Simmons with the sneaky elbow to Kyle Lowry's balls pic.twitter.com/WmLzdsY8Lq
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) May 3, 2019
I really hope they find this guy
Twitter, work your magic.
— Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) May 2, 2019
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GAHHHHHH!!!
An updated look at James Harden's eyes 👀
— ESPN (@espn) May 2, 2019
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Best wishes to Dan Patrick
This guy’s a position player
CHARLIE CULBERSON GETS HIS FIRST CAREER STRIKEOUT WITH THIS NASTY FRONT-DOOR SLIDER pic.twitter.com/QrXDs0smOl
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Good job by Jimmy
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What an incredible goal
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He just wants to know if you read the bible
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If Neo was in Office Space
A good song
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