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 Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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CHL article that includes a blurb on Akey..
https://chl.ca/article/pinelli-akey-mynio-relish-opportunity -to-represent-canada-on-the-international-stage-for-the-firs t-time-at-the-2025-world-juniors/
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Similarly, Anholt offered praise for OHL and Barrie Colts defenceman Beau Akey, whose season in 2023-24 was significantly reduced to only 14 games due to double shoulder surgery.
“There’s a guy who defends with his legs. He can really, really deny entries into the zone. The way he skates,” said Anholt. “He’s probably one of the guys that we got to continue to get to know better, especially the coaching staff.”
Earlier in the week, in a conversation with DailyFaceoff’s Steven Ellis, a scout likened Akey to Minnesota Wild defenceman Brock Faber, suggesting that he is “better than his stats suggest” and highlighted the 19-year-old’s skating, speed, and footwork as part of the reasons why “he’s one of the OHL’s elite blueliners”. Despite the confidence of some in Akey’s game, it didn’t prevent him and his Barrie Colts teammate Cole Beaudoin from feeling some nerves ahead of the roster announcement.
“We were sitting beside each other on the bus [after the game on Friday], kind of like: ‘wow, there’s nothing that we can do now.’ And we were both talking about how nervous we were,” shared the Edmonton Oilers prospect, who described the moments he shared with Beaudoin after Friday’s second and final game against the U SPORTS Selects. “It’s pretty cool to celebrate something like this with [Beaudoin].”
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