2002-born Victoria Grizzlies right wing Ellis Rickwood has committed to Clarkson, the BCHL announced on Tuesday.
Rickwood, a 19-year-old from Brantford, Ontario, just concluded his rookie season with the BCHL’s Grizzlies after spending the past three seasons with the Brantford 99ers in Alliance Hockey, a minor-level hockey organization based in Southern Ontario.
The 6-foot-1, 200-pound forward took the league by storm as a rookie in 2020-21. He began the season with a four-goal effort on opening night and carried it through the rest of the BCHL’s COVID-shortened pod season, finishing second in league scoring and first on the Grizzlies with 30 points in 20 games.
Rickwood is ranked No. 144 among North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting ahead of this month’s NHL Draft. Although the league decided to forgo its traditional annual awards (such as the Bruce Allison Memorial Trophy for the league’s top rookie) due to its irregular pod campaign, Rickwood was named BCHL Rookie of the Year by the writers at BCHLNetwork.