The Abbotsford Canucks have signed five players to one-year contracts.
The Abbotsford Canucks have made five free-agent signings. Forwards Quinn Emerson and Ryan St. Louis, defencemen Tim Rego and Gavin White, and goaltender Mitchell Weeks have all been signed to one-year contracts at the AHL level.
A 25-year-old forward, Emerson has spent the past four seasons with Bowling Green State University of the NCAA. He began his NCAA career by putting together seven points in 29 games before setting new career-highs in points in each of the following seasons with 11 (2023–24), 14 (2024–25), and 33 (2025–26). Abbotsford is not Emerson’s first stint in BC, as the forward spent the 2019–20 and 2021–22 seasons in the BCHL with the Wenatchee Wild.
St. Louis, who is the son of Montréal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis, joins Abbotsford after three seasons in the NCAA with Brown University, during which he put together 32 goals and 36 assists in a total of 83 games. This was not his only stint in the NCAA, however, as he also played at Northeastern University for one season in 2021–22. Between his two college stints, St. Louis played for the Dubuque Fighting Saints in the USHL, racking up 30 goals and 42 assists in 58 games.
Rego is coming off his first full pro season, having played for both the Ontario Reign in the AHL as well as the Greenville Swamp Rabbis of the ECHL in 2025–26. In 15 AHL games this year, he scored two goals and three assists. Before making the jump to the pro level, Rego spent four seasons at Cornell University, racking up a career-high of 24 points in 36 games while wearing an ‘A’ in 2024–25.
Photo Credit: Kaja Antic-THN White was selected in the fourth-round of the 2022 NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars. He was traded to the Calgary Flames in February but did not receive a qualifying offer. The defenceman spent the past three seasons in the AHL with the Texas Stars and the Calgary Wranlgers, during each of which he scored 11 points (12 in 2025–26). During his junior career, White won two OHL championships with the Hamillton Bulldogs in 2021–22 and Peterborough Petes in 2022–23.
The lone goaltender signed by Abbotsford today was Weeks, who joins the AHL Canucks after splitting the past four seasons between the AHL and ECHL. While he spent the entirety of the 2024–25 season in the AHL with the Rockford IceHogs, logging a 3.28 GAA and .886 SV% in 32 games, the bulk of his past four seasons was spent in the ECHL with Indy Fuel. In 2025–26, he registered a 2.46 GAA and .906 SV% in 44 games, following that up with a three-game playoff stint that saw him post a 4.03 GAA and .875 SV%.
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