2025 WHL Championship Game 4 Player To Watch: Berkly Catton, Spokane Chiefs

Spokane, Wash.- There’s a chasm between a 2-2 series tie and a 3-1 deficit- especially when the Ed Chynoweth Cup is on the line.

Chiefs Captain Berkly Catton and his teammates are staring down that very fork in the road after a 6-0 loss to the Medicine Hat Tigers in Game 3 of the 2025 WHL Championship Series presented by Nutrien.

Postgame, Catton didn’t mince any words.

“Our line just flat out wasn’t good enough tonight,” He told reporters on Tuesday night. “We get to come back tomorrow. So that’s the beauty of playoff hockey, and that’s what we’re looking at- learning from tonight, but also flushing it and coming already to play tomorrow.

The further on you go into the playoffs, the more meaningful the games get. I think tomorrow is the biggest one of the year.”

Fans have banked on Catton, the 2025 WHL Most Sportsmanlike Player and finalist for WHL Player of the Year, for bounce-back performances all season.

After scoring Spokane’s lone goal in a 4-1 loss in Game 1, he popped off for two goals and an assist in a thorough 6-2 rubbing of the Tigers in Game 2.

“Him being our captain, the way he played, the way he came out and skated with the puck, he wanted to make sure that we weren’t going to lose this game,” Chiefs Head Coach Brad Lauer said after Game 2. “You could see it by his effort tonight.”

The 19-year-old has only been held without a point in consecutive games on one occasion in 2024-25- and those games came over a month apart from each other, bookending Catton’s trip to the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship.

Catton leads all skaters with 11 goals and 29 assists for 40 points in 18 playoff games, while sitting second in faceoff wins (230/ 59.3%).

His 29 helpers are tied for the most among all WHLers in the playoffs, and he’s inching closer to the all-time single playoff record of 41 (Dale Derkatch- Regina Pats, 1984).

Catton also boasts the highest-scoring night by a single player in 2025 with a seven-point (2G-5A) outing against Vancouver in Game 5 of their first-round series.

The Saskatoon, Sask. product will also aim to get his linemates, Washington Capitals prospect and regular season goals leader Shea Van Olm rolling as well.

Cristall is four goals away from tying the WHL single playoff record of 24 (Blair Chapman- Saskatoon Blades, 1976).

The trio will battle to solve Tigers star netminder Harrison Meneghin in Game 4 on Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. PST.

Viewers in Canada can catch the game on TSN, while those outside the country can stream the 2025 WHL Championship on Victory+.