Wheat Kings add more experience

Playing host to the Memorial Cup can make hockey people act out of character. There was more proof of that Wednesday morning as Kelly McCrimmon, the owner, GM and head coach of the Brandon Wheat Kings, dealt youth for experience.
The Wheat Kings, the host team for the 2010 Memorial Cup, acquired C Brent Raedeke, a 19-year-old from Regina, from the Edmonton Oil Kings for RW Klarc Wilson, a 16-year-old Edmonton native.
The Oil Kings also get a conditional third-round pick in the 2011 bantam draft. It could be that pick is conditional on Raedeke playing in Brandon as a 20-year-old.
Raedeke, in his third WHL season, came out of the Christmas break with 31 points in 39 games. He has 117 points and 202 penalty minutes in 181 regular-season games, and is the Oil Kings' all-time scoring leader.
He was an eighth-round pick by the Regina Pats in the 2005 bantam draft and has signed as a free agent with the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
He is expected to play for the Wheat Kings tonight (Wednesday) in Red Deer against the Rebels.
Wilson was the 10th overall pick in the 2008 bantam draft. He has two assists in 18 games with Brandon.
This is the second trade of this nature for McCrimmon in the last couple of weeks. On Dec. 13, he dealt F Jordan DePape, 17, to the Kamloops Blazers for LW Shayne Wiebe, 19. DePape was the MJHL’s rookie of the year last season with the Winnipeg Saints.
The WHL trade deadline is Jan. 10 ( 3 p.m., Mountain time).