Former Yale Hockey Academy student-athlete Brayden Edwards has signed a two-year AHL contract with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins starting for the 2025/26 season.
The Abbotsford, BC forward joined Yale for the 2018/19 U15 Prep season, tallying 31 points in 26 games. At the conclusion of the season the Kooteny Ice (now the Wenatchee Wild) would select Edwards in the sixth round, 127th overall at the 2019 WHL Draft.
Edwards would return to Yale for the 2019/20 U18 Prep season where he recorded 14 goals and 15 assists in 36 games. The following U18 Prep season he would post five points in five games.
In 2021/22 he would make the jump to the WHL, starting the season with the Winnipeg Ice before joining the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Edwards would spend the following three seasons with the Hurricanes, breaking out ion 2023/24 with 70 points in 66 games. This past season he would lead his team with 77 points in 65 WHL games.
