Defenseman Kale Clague of Brandon of the Western Hockey League provided a sign of things to come three seasons ago while playing in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League.
As captain for the Lloydminster Heat, the 6-foot, 177-pound left-shot defender set a league scoring record for defensemen with 77 points in 33 games.
The previous record had been 65 points in 35 games in 2000-01, set by South Side Athletic Club Lions Bantam AAA defenseman Dion Phaneuf, now with the Ottawa Senators.
"I was just trying to produce some pretty good numbers," Clague said. "And as the season moved along there was talk about [the scoring record], and at the midway point in the season when I found out about it, it became a goal of mine.