Ron Delorme featured in the Induction video for the Hockey Saskatchewan Class of 2018. (Hockey Saskatchewan/YouTube)

By Derek Craddock

TOP PROSPECTS COACH

Saskatchewan’s Ron Delorme named to coaching staff for CHL Top Prospects Game

Nov 3, 2022 | 1:26 PM

A former Saskatchewan Indigenous hockey player has been given another special honour in his illustrious hockey career.

Former WCHL and NHL player Ron Delorme has been named an assistant coach for the 2023 CHL Top Prospects Game.

Delorme spent three seasons in the WCHL in the 1970s with the Swift Current/Lethbridge Broncos where he logged 57 goals and 84 assists. He began his junior career with the Prince Albert Raiders of the SJHL.

In 1975, he was drafted 56^th overall by the Kansas City Scouts, who would eventually relocate to become the Colorado Rockies.

He spent nine years in the NHL playing over 500 games with the Rockies and Vancouver Canucks. In 1986, he started a career as an amateur scout, a journey that would span more than 35 seasons.

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Delorme was born in North Battleford but grew up in nearby Cochin, and is also a band member with Beardy’s & Okemasis Cree Nation.

He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame as a player in 2018.

Other coaches named to the Top Prospects Game include Vancouver Canucks legends Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Stan Smyl, Vancouver Giants head coach Michael Dyck, and former Chicago Blackhawk Brent Seabrook.

The Top Prospects Game is scheduled to go at the Langley Events Centre on Jan. 23, 2023.

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