2024 WHL Prospects Draft Review
Ahead of the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft Presented by Windsor Plywood, we’ll take a look at our signed picks from the 2024 Draft, and how their seasons went in 2024-25.
Brock Cripps (Round 1, 2nd overall)
Cripps’ first full season at the U18 level with St. George’s Prep School was one filled with points, and with awards. The Victoria, BC product finished the 2024-25 campaign with well above a point per game average, as he scored seven goals and added 39 assists to finish with 46 points in 30 games. He had a goal and an assist in three playoff games, as St. George’s won their first two matchups before being bounced by RHA Kelowna, who went on to win the CSSHL Championship.
Cripps was called up on two different occasions to play with the Raiders. He played four games, picking up his first career WHL point with an assist on November 1st against the Swift Current Broncos.
Along with his season success in the CSSHL, Brock was recognized with a pair of league awards: Top Freshman and Top Defenceman.
Ben Harvey (Round 1, 4th overall)
After playing with the Northern Alberta Xtreme in the CSSHL in U15, Harvey joined the Edmonton Jr. Oilers Orange U18 club in the AEHL. He scored 16 goals and had 20 assists for 36 points in 30 regular season games. Edmonton won their first two playoff rounds before facing the Sherwood Park Ennis Kings in the league semi final. Harvey hadn’t played a postseason game until the matchup with Sherwood Park, where played a pair of games, scoring a goal in game three, where their season ended with a 5-2 loss.
Harvey was also called up twice to play in Prince Albert. He played five straight games with the Raiders from December 30-January 8. On New Year’s Day in Saskatoon, the Edmonton, AB product recorded his first WHL point, picking up an assist in the second period.
Connor Howe (Round 2, 31st overall)
The brother of Regina Pats captain and Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick Tanner, Howe played for his hometown Prince Albert Mintos. In 41 regular season games, Howe scored 20 goals and also had 15 assists to finish the campaign with 35 points. He scored a goal in two playoff games as the Mintos were bounced in the first round by Raider prospect Jonah Sivertson and the Regina Pat Canadians, who went on to win the Telus Cup.
Liam Myhre (Round 3, 49th overall)
Myhre also played for the Prince Albert Mintos in the 2024-25 regular season. The defenceman from Nipawin, SK scored twice and chipped in with nine assists in 27 games. He also had an assist in three playoff contests.
On November 16, Myhre made his WHL debut against the Edmonton Oil Kings, a game the Raiders won by a 4-1 final. Towards the end of the season, Myhre was called up to play two more games with the Raiders in Red Deer and Edmonton. Prince Albert won both of those games, and went 3-0 with Myhre in the lineup.
Kyle Obobaifo (Round 3, 54th overall)
A great individual season contributed largely to Obobaifo’s Calgary Flames U18 squad capturing the AEHL Championship. In 36 regular season games, the hometown Calgary product scored 10 goals and added 16 assists to finish the campaign with 26 points. Calgary finished with the most points in the league, finishing the season with a 27-6-0-4 record, claiming the top seed throughout the playoffs.
The Flames lost just one playoff game, en route to going 8-1. The club swept their first round matchup against the Calgary Royals, before taking down the Calgary Buffaloes in four games in the best of five series. In the final, they were matched up with the league’s third place team, the Sherwood Park Kings, who had taken down Ben Harvey’s Edmonton Jr. Oilers in the second round. Obobaifo’s Flames took care of Sherwood Park in three straight games to sweep the league final, finishing the postseason with eight points (2-6) in nine games.
Round one of the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft Presented by Windsor Plywood starts on Wednesday, May 7th. You can watch every pick on Victory+.
