After missing most of his rookie WHL season with injury trouble, playing just 20 games, Kale Clague finally made an impression in his second year with the Brandon Wheat Kings.
In 71 regular-season contests, he scored six goals and added 37 assists for the team that finished fifth in total goals scored of the 22 teams in the league. That was good for the ninth-highest point total on the team, and third on a stacked blue line behind the top-pairing defenders: 20-year-old captain Macoy Erkamps (13-58—71) and the 2015 NHL Draft’s seventh-overall pick and WHL First Team All-Star, Ivan Provorov (21-52—73).