Cubs ink Wolves draft pick
Skilled skater Mason Walker is slated to develop with the Sudbury Cubs of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League come the looming ’24-25 season. The 2008 birth year forward was a ninth round pick by the Sudbury Wolves at the 2024 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft.
Cubs general manager Dave Clancy told Hockey News North that the NOJHL team “is extremely excited to have signed Mason Walker for the upcoming season. Mason was one of the top 15 year old players in the north last season.”
Clancy added that Walker “is an excellent skater and has the ability to both be a playmaker and a player who can score. Mason has been on our radar for a while … he is an excellent young man both on and off the ice.”
On the small size at 5 foot 8, 160 pounds, Walker finished second in the entire Great North Under 18 Hockey League in scoring in ’23-24 despite playing for the league’s only under 16 team — the Sudbury U16 Wolves — and against older competition. In 41 games — regular season and playoffs included — for the U16 Wolves, Walker lit it up to the tune of 37 goals, 34 assists, 71 points.
Even more impressive is that Walker was one of the youngest players eligible for the ’24 OHL draft with a late November birth date.