Wenatchee Wild Announce 2025-26 Award Winners
WENATCHEE, Wash. – The Wenatchee Wild are excited to announce the winners of their 2025-26 team awards, revealed following the conclusion of Wenatchee’s final home game of the season Friday evening. This season’s six awards were spread among five different players as the club celebrates its 18th year in the Wenatchee Valley and third as a Western Hockey League member club.
The Wenatchee Wild wish to formally congratulate the following players on earning this season’s awards:
- Tobias Tvrznik: Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year
Tvrznik was the first player to double up on Wild awards since defenseman Graham Sward earned the team’s Defenseman of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors in 2023-24. The first-year Western Hockey League goaltender out of Litomerice, Czechia led this year’s team with 16 wins, and his .913 save percentage and 3.10 goals-against average also topped the Wenatchee stat sheet. He heads to the offseason ranked fifth among draft-eligible North American goaltenders, and second among draft-eligible WHL goaltenders, ahead of this summer’s National Hockey League draft.
- Aiden Grossklaus: Forward of the Year
The Woodbury, Minnesota product has ramped up his scoring in his second season of junior hockey, turning a 19-point season last year as a United States Hockey League rookie into a 32-point campaign in his first WHL season. He sits third among all Wild forwards in scoring, but his plus/minus rating is the highest among the team’s top five scorers.
- Josh Toll: Defenseman of the Year
Toll revealed himself to be a two-way threat this year, leading the team in scoring with 53 points, including 49 assists. The WHL rookie out of Rosemount, Minnesota is the first defenseman in the club’s 30-year history in the league, dating back to the Edmonton ICE in 1996, to lead the team in scoring. His seven-game point streak from February 27 to March 11 also tied a team-best for the season.
- Mathias Silaban: Most Improved Player
The native of Arvada, Colorado did not register his first WHL point until November 14 at the Portland Winterhawks – that game simply opened the floodgates, notching a goal and an assist that night, before posting points in three of his next four outings as well. Silaban enters Saturday’s season finale with nine goals and 12 assists, one of 11 Wild players this season with 20 points or more.
- Luka Shcherbyna: Fan Favorite
Shcherbyna’s daily enthusiasm for the sport has helped to establish him as a fan favorite for the Wild over his three years with the club – after picking up 49 points last year, including 22 goals, he tacked on to that tally again this year with 42 points, including a team-high 23 goals. Shcherbyna won a vote conducted among fans at Wenatchee home games throughout the month of February.
