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Red hot Connor Eddy leads Victoria Grizzlies into weekend games

Quick, call the fire department. Connor Eddy is on fire. The Victoria Grizzlies forward has seven goals and 10 points in his past two B.C. Hockey League games.
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Grizzlies forward Connor Eddy has seven goals and 10 points in his past two B.C. Hockey League games. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST

Quick, call the fire department. Connor Eddy is on fire.

The Victoria Grizzlies forward has seven goals and 10 points in his past two B.C. Hockey League games.

Recruited primarily as a shut-down forward out of the Westshore Wolves of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League three years ago, Eddy has also blossomed into an offensive talent, and is committed to NCAA Div. 1 Northern Michigan.

“He keeps working hard in practice and has developed his all-round game,” said Grizzlies GM and head coach Craig Didmon.

Heading into Friday night’s games, Eddy was tied for ninth in BCHL scoring with 37 points, 18 of which are goals, second on the Grizzlies only to Matthew Wood’s 23 goals.

Wood meanwhile, continues to spin his own offensive storyline. The six-foot-three native of Nanaimo was tied for third in BCHL points heading into Friday night with 41 despite playing considerably fewer games than the other leaders because of missing time while on Canada U-17 duties. Wood, committed to NCAA Div. 1 University of Connecticut and projected for the 2023 NHL draft, leads the BCHL with a 1.86 points-per-game average.

Simon Tassey of the Salmon Arm Silverbacks, who has played six more games than Wood, led the league in points with 49 heading into Friday night. The slick Sean Donaldson of the Nanaimo Clippers, committed to the Cornell Big Red of the NCAA, was on 41 points to be tied with Wood in third place but also with six more games played. Donaldson and Tassey, the latter committed to NCAA Div. 1 Minnesota State-Mankato, were co-leading in goals with 25 each.

The Grizzlies (16-14), winners of two straight games, are in Duncan tonight to play the Coastal Conference-trailing Cowichan Valley Capitals (8-23-1) and in Nanaimo on Sunday to meet Donaldson and the Clippers (19-11).

ICE CHIPS: The Grizzlies have signed forward Noah Fladager from the Swan Valley Stampeders of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, who had two goals and six points in his last 10 games. He is expected to be in the Grizzlies lineup tonight in Duncan and Sunday in Nanaimo. “It gives us 14 forwards and added depth,” said Didmon, who said he expects to have injured players Jackson Morehouse and Isack Bandu back in February.

cdheensaw@timescolonist.com