Chiefs add Bisson, Watren to roster for Thanksgiving week
Spokane, Wash. — The Spokane Chiefs have added forward Nolan Bisson and goaltender Alexander Watren to their roster as Affiliate Players for Thanksgiving week.
The move brings Spokane’s active roster to 25 players, though the club is without Chase Harrington, Mathis Preston and Assanali Sarkenov this week. Harrington and Preston are playing in the CHL USA Prospects Challenge in Alberta and are expected to rejoin the team this weekend, while Sarkenov is with Team Kazakhstan for the Division I, Group A U20 World Championships and will not return until after the holiday break.
Both are 2008-born players who signed WHL Scholarship and Development Agreements with Spokane after this year’s training camp and have yet to make their Western Hockey League debuts.
Bisson, from St. Albert, Alberta, played in five pre-season games in September and posted two points on a goal and an assist. Watren, from Lakewood, Colorado, pitched a 22-save shutout in his lone pre-season appearance on September 6 against the Portland Winterhawks.
Bisson will wear number 10 and Watren will wear 31.
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The Spokane Chiefs are a member of the U.S. Division of the Western Hockey League, the world’s finest development league for junior hockey players. Since 1985 the Chiefs have been a pillar in the Spokane community, offering family-friendly entertainment and a winning tradition, which includes: two Memorial Cup Championships in 1991 & 2008, two WHL Championships in 1991 & 2008 and five Western Conference Championships in 1991, 1996, 2000, 2008 & 2025. Over 60 alumni have gone on to play in the National Hockey League.
