
Cripps and Harvey heading back to AAA after successful first Raiders camp
After three preseason games, the Prince Albert Raiders are letting two of their first round picks from the 2024 Bantam draft back to their respective AAA teams for the rest of the season. With 15-year-old players being restricted to 10 games a season in the WHL, 2009 born Brock Cripps and Ben Harvey are headed back to their teams for the rest of the season.
For the defenceman Cripps, this year’s second overall pick impressed with his confidence handling the puck and his ability to step up and make plays on incoming defenders. Cripps himself was happy with his first performance in a Raiders camp, but he was quick to credit his teammates around him for his success on the ice.
“I did feel comfortable because I know I have teammates that can back me up if I make a bad play. So that really helped me out through this camp and through these three games, so that was a good thing.”
Cripps is headed back west to play with St. George’s Prep School just outside of his home of Victoria, B.C. in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) where last year, as a defenceman, he lead the entire league in points with 25G-45A-70P, good enough for a 12 point lead on Shaun Hildebrandt in second and a 34 point lead over the next defenceman. Despite his success last year and at Raiders camp, Cripps is still taking a few things back to B.C. that he wants to work on this season.