Carter George of the Owen Sound Attack. Photo by Natalie Shaver/OHL Images
Carter George’s time with the Owen Sound Attack has come to an end.
The team announced Wednesday morning George has been traded to the Soo Greyhounds in exchange for seven OHL Priority Selection picks.
“The Owen Sound Attack would like to thank Carter for his dedication and hard work put forward to the team and want to wish him well going forward in his hockey career,” the team says in a release.
George, 19, is fresh off a bronze medal with Canada at the 2026 World Junior Hockey Championship in Minnesota, the second straight year he was called to play for the Canadian team at the premier under-20 IIHF men’s hockey event.
The 6-foot-2, Los Angeles Kings prospect blossomed into one of Canada’s top up-and-coming goaltenders during his time in Owen Sound. He was a third-round pick of the Attack, 53rd overall, in the 2022 OHL Priority Selection.
He appeared in 135 games for the Attack over parts of four seasons, compiling a 3.22 goals against average and .908 save percentage, as well as five shutouts. An elite puck-mover outside of his crease, George also broke the Owen Sound OHL record for most points by a goaltender (10) and memorably scored once — hitting the empty net during an Attack win in Peterborough on Nov. 14, 2024.
In addition to his two appearances on the Canadian World Junior team, George’s international career has included backstopping Canada to gold medals at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Czechia, and at the 2024 IIHF U18 World Championships in Finland.
The trade by the Attack answers a main question that had been facing the team all season — how the crowded crease would be sorted out. Owen Sound had carried three goaltenders — George, Matthew Koprowski and Trenten Bennett on its roster.
Koprowski and Bennett have shared the crease since George’s departure in early December for World Juniors, and the duo will continue to do so moving forward.
Owen Sound is receiving three second-round picks in the trade — its own in 2027, and Soo’s in 2028 and 2029 — as well as Soo’s third-rounders in 2026 and 2028, and a pair of fourth-rounders, Oshawa’s in 2027 and Soo’s in 2028.
George will return to the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre with the Greyhounds on Saturday, Feb. 14.
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— Matt Hermiz (@MattHermiz) November 15, 2024