Fort St. John’s Hunter Brown commits to York University for 2024-25 USports hockey season

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.  — Fort St. John’s Hunter Brown has committed to York University for the 2024-25 USports hockey season.

According to Elite Prospects, Brown spent the past three seasons in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), playing for the Spruce Grove Saints and the Blackfalds Bulldogs.

He scored 14 goals and had 27 assists for the Bears in the 2023-24 season when they were one of five AJHL teams that jumped to the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) mid-season.

Through 20 BCHL League games, Brown had four goals and nine assists, which put him at a combined 54 points for the entire season.

The 6-foot, 168-pound forward began his junior career with the Fort St. John Flyers, where he had 67 points in 2017-18 for the U-15 AA squad.

He joined the Spruce Grove Saints of the AJHL in 2021-22, helping the squad reach the league’s finals, where they lost to the Brooks Bandits.

Brown joins a York Lions team that had just three wins in its season in USports’ Ontario University Athletics conference and missed the postseason.

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