A hockey player whose originally from Cochrane and who has played for several Airdrie teams during his career has inked a contract to play in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the 2022-2023 hockey season.

Twenty-year-old Damon Agyeman has signed with the Grande Prairie Storm, joining the club from the Ontario Junior Reign of the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL).  The league was founded in 2012 and has grown to over 60 organizations from across the U.S., fielding teams in the National Collegiate Development Conference (NCDC), Premier, Elite, EHF, 18U, 16U, 15U, and High Performance youth divisions.

Agyeman, who stands 6' 3" and tips the scales at 190 pounds, had a goal and 17 assists as a defenceman in 16 games with the Reign during the 2021-2022 hockey season.  He made an impression in the second half of the regular season, eventually being named the team's Outstanding Defenceman. Agyeman's USPHL debut was the heavily scouted Boston Showcase in Massachusetts.  His presence in the Reign's lineup played a signficant part in the team making the playoffs in their inaugural season.

Agyeman spent two seasons, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, as a member of the AAA Airdrie Xtreme U15 club where he scored seven goals and 12 points.  He finished the 2015-2016 campaign with four games for the AA AC Avalanche U15s picking up  two points in four games before moving up to the AAA U18 Airdrie Bisons in the 2017-2018 season where he notched a pair of goals and two assists.

 He then spent one game with the Storm at the end of that season before rejoining the Bisons for the 2018-2019 campaign, earning 10 points in 30 games.  Agyeman had brief stints with the AJHL's Drumheller Dragons and the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League before joining the Reign for the 2021-2022 hockey season.

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