Brampton Steelheads Pick Up Forward Weston Cameron In Trade With Kitchener Rangers

The Brampton Steelheads have acquired centre Weston Cameron from the Kitchener Rangers, the teams announced Wednesday afternoon.

The return to Kitchener is a 2027 third-round pick (BFD) as well as a 2030 fifth-rounder (SBY).

Cameron, 18, has five (2+3) points in 19 games in a checking role with the Rangers this season, his second with the team. Last year, he got into 44 regular season games, but was a healthy scratch nearly the entire postseason as a stacked Kitchener team went all the way to the Memorial Cup.

With the Steelheads, he should be placed into a bigger role, with the chance to show the offensive flash he provided at the junior levels with the Toronto Marlboros, alongside his strong two-way and physical play.

The 6-foot-4 centre was a third-round pick in the 2024 OHL draft. He's currently committed to join UMass of the NCAA for the 2027-28 campaign, but it's possbiel that commitment will be pushed back a year so he can develop his game further in the OHL, given the timing of this trade.

The Rangers were full up front following the return of overager Gabriel Chiarot after he was re-assigned to the OHL by the Vancouver Canucks after a sting with AHL Abbotsford, which clearly made Cameron available for trade.

Brampton, who sit ninth in the Eastern conference with a 4-13-2 record from their first 19 games, will see the Toronto native as a building block for the next 18 months.

They have a massive amount of draft capital from trades in prior years, most notably the 15 draft picks (as well as a pair of compensatory picks, though those cannot be moved) they received in the Tanner Adams trade from September.

If they play their cards right, they should be able to build a real contender with that arsenal of trade chips, and acquire players they feel can be solid contributors for the future. Cameron is the first step of that, and there could be more to follow over the next year.

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