The Tips picked a heck of a day to pull the trigger on a deal for their all-time leading goal scorer …
Anyway, the Tips announced this morning that they’ve dealt 20-year-old winger Tyler Maxwell to Edmonton in exchange for 16-year-old prospect defenseman Griffin Foulk and a third-round pick in the 2012 bantam draft. Maxwell, who scored 107 goals in three-plus seasons with the Tips, has been in Manhattan Beach, Calif., the past two weeks after he was sent home following his trade request.
I’m guessing the third-round pick it the primary return in this trade, as it’s listed first in the press release. As for Foulk, he’s a 6-foot, 180-pound native of Broomfield, Colorado. He is currently playing for the Colorado Thunderbirds major-midget team, with whom he has one goal and two assists in 14 games. Foulk was originally an eighth-round pick in the 2010 bantam draft, and this year he was taken in the third round of the USHL futures draft by the Tri-City Storm. He’s appeared in one game with the Storm this season.
There’s really no telling how good a prospect Foulk is. The eighth round is pretty late in the bantam draft, but American players tend to slip in the draft because of concerns about whether they’re committed to the WHL. Foulk attended training camp with the Oil Kings each of the past two years, but we’ve seen U.S.-born players attend camp in Everett as 15- and 16-year-olds, then choose the NCAA route, the most-recent example being forward Michael McNicholas. So who knows.
Because this is Thanksgiving this is all I’m going to have on this today. I will follow up with more on Friday.
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