The Ottawa 67’s have traded Calgary Flames defence prospect Henry Mews to the Sudbury Wolves ahead of the 2025 Ontario Hockey League trade deadline.

Mews, 18, leads all OHL rearguards with 50 points (11 goals, 39 assists) in 38 games with the 67’s this season. The Flames originally selected the 6’1″ right-hander in the third round (No. 74 overall) of the 2024 NHL Draft.

As is typical in blockbuster junior trades, the Wolves parted with an enormous quantity of draft picks to bring Mews into the fold. The full deal sees Mews head to Sudbury in exchange for defenceman Nolan Jackson, two 2027 second-round picks, third-round picks in 2025 and 2027, a 2025 fifth-round pick, and conditional picks in the 2028 seventh round and the 2027 eighth and ninth rounds.

Mews will be joining a Sudbury team that currently ranks fourth in the OHL’s Eastern Conference with a 21-11-5 record and 47 points through 37 games, putting them four spots (and 11 points) up on Ottawa — coached by former Flames assistant Dave Cameron — in the standings.

As a 2006-born player, Mews technically has two years of junior eligibility left after this one, although very few people around the OHL expect him to stick around for that long, which likely played a role in the 67’s moving on from him now.

Additionally, as he has yet to sign his entry-level deal with the Flames, Mews is also eligible to leave the CHL at any time and continue his development at the NCAA level. It remains to be seen whether he’ll choose to go down that path after this season.

Mews is not the first Flames prospect to be moved this month as CHL clubs have worked to finalize their 2024-25 rosters. Hunter Laing, another 2006-born player and a 2024 sixth-round pick of the Flames, went from the Prince George Cougars to the Saskatoon Blades in a deal that saw high-scoring forward Ben Riche head the other way.

For his own part, Mews ranks among the Flames’ most exciting and high-upside prospects and is on pace to obliterate the career-best scoring marks he set with the 67’s in the 2023-24 season. It looks like it’ll only be a matter of time before he becomes a productive pro in Calgary’s system.