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 100 GAME ON 2017 PLAYOFF EDITION