FUTURE WATCH: Schaefer piling on the goals to start WHL season

EDMONTON, AB - Goals, goals, goals.
Oilers 2022 first-round pick Reid Schaefer continued his torrid start on one half of the score sheet, picking up his seventh goal of the Western Hockey League season on Friday against the Edmonton Oil Kings.
The 32nd overall pick now has seven goals and no assists in his first five games of the season with the Seattle Thunderbirds, trailing only top-propect Connor Bedard (who has played double the game) for the WHL goal scoring lead.
Schaefer is coming off a strong season '21-22 junior season, scoring 32 goals and 26 assists in 66 games last season for Seattle. The 19-year-old's dynamite performance carried on into the WHL playoffs where he added 21 points in 25 postseason games as the Thunderbirds lost in the Ed Chynoweth Cup against the Oil Kings.