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High Scoring Young Indo-Canadian Hockey Phenom From Surrey Signed By Vancouver Canucks

March 11, 2022

A young ice hockey phenom from Surrey has been signed by the Vancouver Canuck of the National Hockey League. Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced Friday that the club has signed Arshdeep Bains to an entry level contract. Bains, 21, has appeared in 55 games for the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League (WHL) this season collecting 82 points (30-52-82) and 46 penalty minutes. He leads the league in both points (82) and assists (52), becoming the first player of South Asian descent to lead the WHL in points.

By DESIBUZZCanada Staff With News Files

VANCOUVER – A young ice hockey phenom from Surrey has been signed by the Vancouver Canuck of the National Hockey League.

Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced Friday that the club has signed Arshdeep Bains to an entry level contract.

Bains, 21, has appeared in 55 games for the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League (WHL) this season collecting 82 points (30-52-82) and 46 penalty minutes. He leads the league in both points (82) and assists (52), becoming the first player of South Asian descent to lead the WHL in points.

This season, the 6'1", 184-pound left winger collected 11 power play goals and 24 assists on the man advantage to help the Rebels boast the third-best power-play percentage in the league.

Bains, a free agent, was not drafted by an NHL club.

Bains will continue playing for Red Deer this spring, with an eye on cracking the Canucks lineup next season, for 2022-23.

Bains said “it’s pretty relieving” to sign with his hometown NHL team.

“My whole family, and my brother especially, we all went to Canucks games, so it’s pretty exciting to have an opportunity to play for them,” Bains told Surrey Now-Leader newspaper.

Bains recently said he’d been playing hard this season to earn himself an invitation to a pro-team camp this coming summer.

“I’m just trying to get my foot in the door and see if I can create an opportunity as an over-ager, so we’ll see how things happen, but I’m pretty excited,” Bains asserted last month, in an interview with the Now-Leader. “My agent’s been doing most of the work and he says things are good, so I just keep playing my game and let the rest handle itself.”