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Doust Making An Early Impact with Warriors

January 22, 2020 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
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Logan Doust's first two games with the Moose Jaw Warriors could have only gone better if the team had skated to victories.

The 18-year-old centre from North Vancouver, B.C. scored a goal in each of his first two games in the Warriors' black, red, and white.

"It makes me feel good, it makes me feel more confident," said Doust, who has four goals and seven assists through 40 games - 36 with the Victoria Royals and four in Moose Jaw.

Doust was acquired along with goalie Brock Gould and defenceman Nolan Jones during a blockbuster trade with Victoria before the WHL Trade Deadline on Jan. 10.

His debut was also his 100th WHL game.

"It's a lot of emotions, I wasn't necessarily expecting [the trade], but it happened and then it was a pretty crazy 24 hours getting over here," Doust said. "It's been good so far; I've had a good experience."

Doust was originally drafted by the Saskatoon Blades in the ninth round of the 2016 WHL Bantam Draft. He posted six goals and eight points in 60 games last season with the Royals.

Standing in at six-foot and 185 lbs., Doust brings a strong defensive game.

"I play a two-way game, I was used a lot on the penalty kill in Victoria, I played a checking, I play pretty smart at both ends of the ice, but I definitely like to chip in offensively as well," he said.

With a new opportunity on a young and learning team, Doust is looking forward to a larger opportunity and the opportunity to be a leader with the Warriors.

"We've got a young team here, it's a bit of a different role than I had in Victoria, you take more of an older guy position, but it's a good thing for me definitely," Doust said.

"It's a learning experience here, but it's definitely a good thing, it's a good thing for me and my career."

Doust was traded to Moose Jaw from Victoria on Thursday, jumped on a plane with Gould and Jones, and made his debut with the Warriors on Friday night in Medicine Hat.

He would score the Warriors' opening goal of the game during a 5-2 loss that night. Doust would also score the next night in his home debut.

"It's pretty crazy, that's what junior hockey is though, everybody goes through it, lots of guys go through it around the trade deadline, it was a crazy day, but an exciting day," he said.

Getting through the three busy days after the trade was made easier for Doust with his two trade-mates along for the ride.

"It makes it a little bit easier for sure, you've got two of your go-to guys coming over with you, you're not in here with 20 strangers, there's two guys you know, but you get to know the guys pretty quickly, so it's been good," said Doust.

While the whirlwind day after the trade was an exciting experience, Doust was pleased to have last week to get accustom to his teammates before a busy stretch of six games in ten days for Moose Jaw.

"It's one thing to watch the systems on video and see it drawn up on a board, but it's a whole other thing to go out there and practice with the guys, get to know the guys and see how guys play," Doust said.

"We've been power play, been practicing with my line mates and getting used to everybody and I'm getting used to it for sure."

Getting to know Doust off the ice

Doust grew up in North Vancouver, cheering for the NHL's Vancouver Canucks.

Despite playing forward his whole life, Doust's favourite player with the Canucks is not one of the Sedins.

"I loved Kevin Beiksa for some reason, that was always my guy, I thought he was awesome, he was one of my favourites," said Doust.

His favourite season was in 2010-11 when the Canucks lost in seven games to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals and 10-year-old Logan Doust was cheering them on.

"That was my peak of cheering for the Canucks," he said.

Away from the rink, you can find Doust on a boat. He says if he could not be a professional hockey player, sport fishing would be his back-up.

"I've grown up doing it my whole life, salmon fishing my whole life, every summer, all the time, that's my second love," he said.

"I catch some pretty big Halibut out there on the West Coast."

Besides his parents, Doust credits his grandparents with helping him make it to the Western Hockey League.

"I remember my grandma - when my parents were working - she'd always be the one that would drive me out, she'd wake up early and come get me, or I'd sleep over there, and she'd drive me out to practice and try to tie my skates as best she could," said Doust.

You can catch Doust and the Warriors in action during three games in four nights this week. Moose Jaw hosts Lethbridge on Wednesday, travel to Swift Current on Friday, host the Broncos on Saturday and finishing the weekend with a trip to Winnipeg on Sunday.

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