The Everett Silvertips acquired Zackary Shantz from the Regina Pats in exchange for a 2027 second-round pick and the player rights to ‘08 forward Shea Rollason at Thursday’s WHL Trade Deadline.
Before the trade, the 19-year-old forward was the second-leading scorer for the Pats, who sit second-to-last in the WHL standings this season with a 10-21-4-2 record (26 points). Shantz has 25 points (nine goals, 16 assists) through 37 games. He already matched his point total from last season in just over half as many games, when he scored eight goals and 17 assists in 67.
Shantz, a Sucker Creek, Alta. native, joins a Silvertips team where he slots in as the eighth-highest scorer. He is in the midst of his second full season in the WHL.
Rollason, 16, was selected eighth overall by the Dauphin Kings in the 2024 Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) Draft. The Winnipeg native has appeared in one game for the Kings this season. He leads the Winnipeg Bruins with 20 goals and 45 points in 29 games in the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League.
With Shantz heading to Everett, Regina’s remaining top two scorers – Julien Maze and Caden Brown – each started the season with the Silvertips before separate trades just 10 days apart sent them to the Pats in late November.
The Shantz trade comes just hours after the NHL’s Nashville Predators re-assigned forward Austin Roest to the Silvertips.
Additionally, Everett traded away forward Andrew Petruk to Kelowna in exchange for a 2025 ninth-round pick. The 19-year-old forward from Surrey, B.C. had two goals and one assist in 15 games for the Silvertips this season.
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