Kyle Burroughs is on the move to Medicine Hat.
Burroughs, the captain of the Regina Pats, was shipped to the Medicine Hat Tigers in a Western Hockey League trade on Monday.
The Langley Minor Hockey Association product had spent his entire WHL career with Regina, recording 103 points in 220 games.
The 19-year-old leads the WHL with a +31 rating this season. He has five goals and 22 points in 36 games.
“It’s obviously a very difficult day when you have to trade your captain,” said Regina coach John Paddock on the team’s website. “Kyle is as good a captain as there is in junior hockey, an outstanding players and leader. We will miss him, but this is a step we had to take as an organization in order to build for the future and make up for deficiencies in future drafts.”
Burroughs was a seventh round draft pick of the New York Islanders in the 2013 NHL entry draft.
Burroughs was sent to Medicine Hat along with Dryden Hunt in exchange for Connor Hobbs, a second round pick and a third round pick in the WHL draft.
