Danny Zhilkin won't have far to go to suit up for his new team.
The Guelph Storm traded Zhilkin to the Kitchener Ranges on Tuesday morning. In return the Storm receives 19-year-old forward Jesse Fishman and six draft picks, four of which did not originally belong to the Rangers: 2023 second round pick (Barrie), 2025 second round pick (Hamilton), 2024 third round pick (Oshawa), 2025 third round pick (Kitchener), 2026 third round pick (Kitchener) and 2023 fourth round pick (Hamilton).
Kitchener also receives an eighth round pick.
Zhilkin, 19, has 12 goals and 14 assists in 25 games this season.
Last week he signed an entry level contract with the NHL's Winnipeg Jets, who drafted him in the third round last year. In 155 games in a Storm univorm he scored 43 goals and 55 assists.
Zhilkin was the Storm's first round pick, 14th overall, in 2019.
Fishman, a five-foot-nine, 165-pound right-shot centre from Thornhill, was a fourth round pick (79th overall) by the Rangers in 2019.
In 77 career regular season games with Kitchener he has 15 points (8 goals, 7 assists). He missed the 2021-22 season due to injury.
Guelph plays in London tonight and hosts the Erie Otters on Friday.
