Lloydminster Bobcats defenceman Dylan Deets has been named the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s player of the month for October, the league announced Wednesday.
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The 18-year-old leads the entire AJHL in scoring with 27 points, a tally that’s even more remarkable coming from the blue line. Deets has three goals and 24 assists, and he’s recorded a point in all 15 games he’s played this season.
October alone was a stretch worth bragging about. Deets put up 19 points in the month, with two goals and 17 assists, and seven of his nine games were multi-point efforts.
He also picked up the league’s defensive player of the week honour for Oct. 19 to 25, a stretch that included three multi-point games as the Bobcats kept rolling through their schedule.
It’s been a group effort behind the blue line. The Bobcats went 8-1 in October and sit second in the Bunge AJHL North Division, and Deets and the rest of the defensive core have allowed the fourth-fewest goals in the league this season.
Deets, a Cold Lake product, is in his third season with the Bobcats and serves as an assistant captain. He’s also no stranger to being recognized off the ice. Deets was named to the AJHL All-Academic Team last spring, and readers got to know him a little better in a recent 20 Questions feature with Meridian Source.
The timing of the award comes with a twist. Deets is now with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League after a call-up earlier this week, a jump that speaks to the kind of season he was putting together in the Border City before he left.
He’s not the only Bobcat turning heads this fall. Captain Jaxan Hopko recently earned his own AJHL defensive honour, a sign of just how deep the Bobcats’ back end has been this season.
Evan Benoit of the Fort McMurray Oil Barons won the September edition of the award.
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