Cloverdale native Tyler Wotherspoon has signed a three-year contract with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League.
The deal, announced Sunday, is for $925,000 per season.
Wotherspoon is currently playing defense for the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
He finished the regular season with seven goals and a career-best 30 assists. His plus-minus total of plus-62, second-best in the WHL, caught the Flames attention.
In five playoff games, he has two goals and two assists, helping the Winterhawks to a 3-2 series lead over the Everett Silvertips.
Wotherspoon, 20, played with the Cloverdale Minor Hockey Association and the BC Hockey Major Midget League's Valley West Hawks. He was drafted in the second round, 57th overall, by the Flames in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft after his second season in Portland.
In 239 career WHL games over four seasons, he has 17 goals and 65 assists. He was limited to 61 games this past season, as he also played for Canada at the World Junior Championships in Ufa, Russia.