The Lakehead University Hockey Program has a received a commitment from former OHL winger Jake Carrick for the 2011-12 season.
The Stoufville, Ontario native played three-plus seasons for the Soo Greyhounds before being dealt to the Windsor Spitfires for one player and four draft picks at last years OHL trading deadline. In his fourth and final year of Major Junior hockey, Carrick scored 23 goals and added 22 assists for 45 points in 58 regular season games with both Sault St. Marie and Windsor. He tallied another 16 points in 18 playoff games as Windsor advanced all the way to the OHL Western Conference finals last spring.
The 511, 180-pound forward isnt shy of the rough stuff, as he accumulated 583 penalty minutes in 262 career OHL games played.
Thunderwolves Head Coach Joel Scherban feels that Carrick can step right into a key role with Wolves. Jake is a tough, gritty forward who will have an immediate impact in CIS hockey, Scherban said.
Carrick, who attended an NHL training camp with the Anaheim Ducks in 2010, is pleased to be coming to Lakehead. I look forward to furthering my academics and my development as a hockey player at Lakehead University, he said. I have heard great things about the school, the hockey program, and the city of Thunder Bay.
Jake Carricks great-great grandfather was the late J.J. Carrick, who was the Mayor of Port Arthur in 1908, a Member of Parliament from 1911 to 1917, and for whom Carrick Park is named.