After two seasons of Junior B hockey action, Robson Cramer of Summerland will play at the university level for the 2015-2016 season.
Cramer, 20, has played 163 games with the Nelson Leafs and Osoyoos Coyotes in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.
“He is a very skilled, smooth skating defenseman who can contribute offensively,” said Mark Coletta, head coach of the university team. “It’s a good thing - a very good thing — to be able to solidify our team early in the recruiting season with a bona fide top six defenseman.”
So far in the 2014-2015 season, Cramer has 16 goals and 28 assists for the Nelson Leafs.
“I am excited to be a part of SFU’s outstanding hockey program and attend one of the top universities in the country,” Cramer said. “I am an offensive defenseman who has solid vision and feel that I show composure in both the offensive and defensive zones. I am a pretty powerful skater and in the offensive zone, move effectively to help create scoring opportunities.”
Cramer began playing Junior B hockey in the 2011-2012 season with the Osoyoos Coyotes.
He finished the season with three goals and 34 assists.
The next year, he joined the Wichita Falls Wildcats, a Junior A team in the North American Hockey League.
He returned to the Coyotes after adding two assists in three games.
In January, 2013 he was traded to Nelson.
The men’s hockey team at Simon Fraser University was re-established in 2004 and competes in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League.