Janes, who turned 18 this fall, currently plays for the Valley junior A Wildcats, where he was leading the team in scoring late last week with 31 points, including 13 goals, in 26 games.
Janes moved to Greenwood with his family 10 years ago, when he was playing atom hockey. He began his hockey career at the age of five and had previously played a year in Oromocto, N.B., and two years of novice in Moose Jaw, SK.
“I started off with the Greenwood Bombers atom team, then played with Western Valley from my second year of atom until my first year of bantam,” after arriving in the Valley, he said.
His second year of bantam, 2010-2011, coincided with the formation of the Kings Mutual major bantams, playing out of the Kings Mutual Century Centre in Berwick.
After making the team and scoring 17 goals and 37 points in 33 regular season games for the bantam Wildcats that season, he graduated to the Valley major midgets where he spent two seasons, scoring 24 goals and 49 points.
In the second of those two seasons, the Wildcats won both the provincial and Atlantic championships and advanced to play for the TELUS Cup. Janes contributed seven goals and 27 points in 16 playoff games.
Drafted in QMJHL
The Acadie-Bathurst Titan drafted Janes in the 11th round of the 2013 QMJHL draft. That same year, he was chosen by the junior A Wildcats as one of their territorial selections in the MHL draft.
After attending the Titan training camp, he was ultimately returned to the Wildcats for 2013-2014, where he had 10 goals and 22 points in 30 games.
Janes was called up to Acadie-Bathurst for a week in December 2013, then again from Dec. 26, 2013 until the end of the season. In 13 games overall, he scored one goal.
He again attended the Acadie-Bathurst training camp this past August, but was returned to the Wildcats Aug. 25, where he expected to remain the entire season.
His fortunes took another turn Nov. 26 when Acadie-Bathurst traded him to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. He played one game for Cape Breton before once again returning to the Wildcats, who retain his MHL rights.
While he acknowledged he “might get called up” by Cape Breton again, Janes added it probably wasn’t all that likely.
Focus on studies
“I’m planning to start at Acadia in January,” where he will begin studies toward an engineering diploma. This likely means “I’ll be here for the rest of the season.”
He hasn’t minded all the moving around he’s done.
“A lot of the time, it’s interesting and fun. I didn’t mind it, really. It was exciting to get to play with Acadie-Bathurst, and then for Cape Breton,” he said.
The 2014 West Kings graduate acknowledged the little bit of uncertainty “keeps things interesting.”
Other than being committed to studying at Acadia for the immediate future, Janes said he was “still feeling my way as to what I’d like to do.”
In hockey terms, he said, “hopefully I’ll be able to play CIS hockey somewhere when I’m finished junior.”
Asked if someday playing hockey for Acadia might be part of the equation, he says that’s uncertain.
“I can only do two of my years of engineering at Acadia,” he said. “It might take me three years to finish, because I’m not taking a full course load because of hockey,” with three years of junior eligibility remaining, he will likely be done at Acadia by the time he finishes junior.
“Dalhousie has the engineering program around here,” although he acknowledged UNB and Royal Military College “are all possibilities.”
For now, though, he is focused on getting started with his studies, as well as helping the Wildcats to as high a finish as possible in the MHL.
“I like our team this year,” he said. “We’re all pretty close, and get along well together. We have a pretty tight dressing room.”
It certainly doesn‘t hurt that John Deacon, Eric Chipman, Lukas Kane and recently acquired Patrick Duggan are all former major midget teammates.
Janes is currently playing on a line with Deacon and Jeremy Butterworth.
“We have pretty good chemistry,” he said, which is evidenced by the fact that the three forwards are, at the time of writing, “one-two-three on the team in scoring.”
Janes, who turned 18 this fall, currently plays for the Valley junior A Wildcats, where he was leading the team in scoring late last week with 31 points, including 13 goals, in 26 games.
Janes moved to Greenwood with his family 10 years ago, when he was playing atom hockey. He began his hockey career at the age of five and had previously played a year in Oromocto, N.B., and two years of novice in Moose Jaw, SK.
“I started off with the Greenwood Bombers atom team, then played with Western Valley from my second year of atom until my first year of bantam,” after arriving in the Valley, he said.
His second year of bantam, 2010-2011, coincided with the formation of the Kings Mutual major bantams, playing out of the Kings Mutual Century Centre in Berwick.
After making the team and scoring 17 goals and 37 points in 33 regular season games for the bantam Wildcats that season, he graduated to the Valley major midgets where he spent two seasons, scoring 24 goals and 49 points.
In the second of those two seasons, the Wildcats won both the provincial and Atlantic championships and advanced to play for the TELUS Cup. Janes contributed seven goals and 27 points in 16 playoff games.
Drafted in QMJHL
The Acadie-Bathurst Titan drafted Janes in the 11th round of the 2013 QMJHL draft. That same year, he was chosen by the junior A Wildcats as one of their territorial selections in the MHL draft.
After attending the Titan training camp, he was ultimately returned to the Wildcats for 2013-2014, where he had 10 goals and 22 points in 30 games.
Janes was called up to Acadie-Bathurst for a week in December 2013, then again from Dec. 26, 2013 until the end of the season. In 13 games overall, he scored one goal.
He again attended the Acadie-Bathurst training camp this past August, but was returned to the Wildcats Aug. 25, where he expected to remain the entire season.
His fortunes took another turn Nov. 26 when Acadie-Bathurst traded him to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. He played one game for Cape Breton before once again returning to the Wildcats, who retain his MHL rights.
While he acknowledged he “might get called up” by Cape Breton again, Janes added it probably wasn’t all that likely.
Focus on studies
“I’m planning to start at Acadia in January,” where he will begin studies toward an engineering diploma. This likely means “I’ll be here for the rest of the season.”
He hasn’t minded all the moving around he’s done.
“A lot of the time, it’s interesting and fun. I didn’t mind it, really. It was exciting to get to play with Acadie-Bathurst, and then for Cape Breton,” he said.
The 2014 West Kings graduate acknowledged the little bit of uncertainty “keeps things interesting.”
Other than being committed to studying at Acadia for the immediate future, Janes said he was “still feeling my way as to what I’d like to do.”
In hockey terms, he said, “hopefully I’ll be able to play CIS hockey somewhere when I’m finished junior.”
Asked if someday playing hockey for Acadia might be part of the equation, he says that’s uncertain.
“I can only do two of my years of engineering at Acadia,” he said. “It might take me three years to finish, because I’m not taking a full course load because of hockey,” with three years of junior eligibility remaining, he will likely be done at Acadia by the time he finishes junior.
“Dalhousie has the engineering program around here,” although he acknowledged UNB and Royal Military College “are all possibilities.”
For now, though, he is focused on getting started with his studies, as well as helping the Wildcats to as high a finish as possible in the MHL.
“I like our team this year,” he said. “We’re all pretty close, and get along well together. We have a pretty tight dressing room.”
It certainly doesn‘t hurt that John Deacon, Eric Chipman, Lukas Kane and recently acquired Patrick Duggan are all former major midget teammates.
Janes is currently playing on a line with Deacon and Jeremy Butterworth.
“We have pretty good chemistry,” he said, which is evidenced by the fact that the three forwards are, at the time of writing, “one-two-three on the team in scoring.”
