For home games during the 2017-18 season, the Carleton Place Canadians will be profiling one player from the team. This time, the profile is on Keenan Reynolds.
Quick Bio
Birthdate: Mar. 31, 1998
Hometown: Ottawa, Ont.
Height: 6’2″
Weight: 200 lbs
Shoots: L
Position: F
Reynolds is in his first season with the Canadians and is playing his second season in the CCHL after spending parts of last season and the start of this season with the Navan Grads.
The 19-year-old played for the Eastern Ontario Wild AAA program during his bantam years before moving to the Ottawa Jr. 67s AAA team for his minor midget season.
“I was the [second] last ever league champion of minor midget hockey in Ottawa,” with the Jr. 67s winning the title in the 2013-14 season before the Under-18 league replaced midget AAA in the Ottawa-area.
“It was fun, we finished third in the province at the end of the year and it was a great year,” Reynolds said of the championship season. “I played a lot, had a lot of good friends. I wish we could have won it all at the OHL Cup, but I felt minor hockey was a great step to junior hockey.”
The Owen Sound Attack drafted Reynolds in the fourth round of the 2014 OHL Priority Selection draft. Reynolds spent the 2014-15 season with the Attack before he was traded to the Flint Firebirds during the 2015-16 season. He played three games with the Firebirds to start 2016 before returning to the Ottawa-area to play for Navan.
“I went to major junior really young and didn’t really get a chance to prove what I would have liked to do, but it gave me a chance at new beginnings and everything has a silver lining. Now I’m here in Carleton Place, playing for one of the best in Canada and looking to win a league championship.”
Carleton Place acquired Reynolds in a trade on Nov. 30, a trade Reynolds said excited him when he found out about it.
“I played against Carleton Place and I just knew exactly how tough it was to play them. Seeing some of the guys on this team like Brett Thorne and Haydn Hopkins, it’s a lot better to be on their team.”
On the ice, Reynolds said he likes to use his size and strength to his advantage.
“I’m a big power-forward with good hands. I like driving wide (past the defence) and sometimes I like showing off my hands too. But I’d say I’m a big power-forward who gets pucks to the net and scores goals.
This season, Reynolds has 20 goals and 41 points in 43 games, including his five goals and 11 points in 16 games with the Canadians.
