For home games during the 2018-19 season, the Carleton Place Canadians will be profiling one player from the team. This time, the profile is on Cade Townend.
Quick Bio
Birthdate: June 17, 1999
Hometown: Carleton Place, Ont.
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 200 lbs
Shoots: L
Position: D
Townend is in his third season as a Carleton Place Canadian, his hometown team.
Prior to entering the Canadians organization, he spent time with the Kanata Lasers on their Under-18 team. He was a Lasers first-round pick in the 2015 CCHL Draft and spent the 2015-16 season with Kanata before an off-season trade sent him to Carleton Place prior to last season.
“[My U-18 year] gave me the time and development to become the player I want to be, a two-way defenceman, physical play in my own end and throw up some points in the O-zone,” Townend said.
For Townend, he said playing in his hometown doesn’t come with any added pressure for him.
“It’s just cool everyone knows who you are and you just use that as your motivation to get better each day,” he added.
Prior to the beginning of this season, Townend was named to the CCHL team that went to Sochi, Russia to play in the Sirius Junior Club World Cup and came back home with a bronze medal – along with six other Canadians players and our equipment manager Dwayne Sawyer.
“It was great to go to a different country and see a different type of game they play over there,” Townend said. “I look to bring some of the creativeness I saw over there to my game and show some of the younger guys.”
On the ice, Townend said he likes to be a two-way defender and enjoys the role of shutting down the opposition’s best forwards.
There were a number of schools in the NCAA that like Townend’s game, and in the end he earned a scholarship last season and committed to play for Mercyhurst University. He will head to school for the start of the 2019-20 season.
“I come from a small town, Carleton Place, and I like their campus and all the things around it. It reminds me of home,” he said about choosing to attend Mercyhurst.
In six games played so far this season, Townend has two assists and is on pace to match his points totals of a season ago. He had 20 points in 57 games during the 2017-18 season.
