Game On Magazine - April 2017 GameOn-Apr2017-P001-144-ONLINE | Page 100
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA BISONS
The Bisons Byron Spriggs:
‘He’s Good
Enough
to Play Pro’
Back in 2011, Byron Spriggs was a one-time Double A bantam goalie who
was playing for the Vincent Massey Trojans in the Winnipeg High School
Hockey League. Since then, he’s won an MJHL championship with the Win-
nipeg Blues, become one of the best U SPORTS goaltenders in Canada and
has made his professional debut with the American Hockey League’s Char-
lotte Checkers (albeit as an emergency call-up). Byron Spriggs is a brilliant
university business student who also happens to be an on-ice late bloomer,
a guy who just might be good enough now, at 23, to make hockey a career.
By Scott Taylor
Photos by Jeff Miller and
Jonathan Kozub
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