Canucks prospect Riley Patterson wants trade to another OHL team

A right-shot forward, the 2024 fourth-round draft pick has played the past two seasons with Barrie

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Published Aug 26, 2025 • 2 minute read

Canucks prospect Riley Patterson was the 125th pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. Photo by Bruce Bennett /Getty Images

Vancouver Canucks centre prospect Riley Patterson is asking the Barrie Colts to trade him to another OHL team and he won’t be attending Colts training camp this week, according to the Barrie Today.

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“He wants a fresh start,” Colts general manager Marty Williamson told the Today. “I still really like Riley.”

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Patterson, 19, is a Burlington, Ont., native who was a fourth-round selection in the 2024 NHL Draft. The 6-foot-1, 192-pound right-handed shot has yet to sign his entry-level deal. That means he can still go the NCAA route if he choses. He had verbally committed to Michigan State prior to joining Barrie for the 2023-24 season.

Patterson had 29 goals and 62 points in 68 regular season games that first campaign with Barrie. He put up 25 goals and 59 points in 64 regular season games last season, leaving him second in team scoring. His points often came in bunches, including producing 16 (4-12) of them in a 10-game streak in January and February.

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Barrie finished eighth (28-36-4-0) in the OHL’s Eastern Conference in his first season and jumped to second in the East (42-22-2-2) last season. They loaded up for a playoff run, including trading for fellow Canucks prospect Anthony Romani, 20. They wound up losing in the East final, getting swept by the Oshawa Generals.

Romani , a right-shot forward, was superb in the playoffs, notching 12 goals and 24 points in 16 games. Patterson had six goals and 12 points.

Romani opted to forgo his final season of junior eligibility this year and go to Michigan State instead of returning to Barrie. Romani was Vancouver’s 2024 sixth-round selection.

Patterson told Postmedia’s Ben Kuzma at Canucks development camp in July about how his mom — a former athlete with a background in sports psychology and guidance counselling — had helped him.

“You need that mental strength. It’s the inner belief that you can make it. I have that self-confidence and belief that I’m putting the right work in every day to achieve that goal,” Patterson said then.

Patterson told Kuzma that he would like to model his game after centre Gabriel Vilardi of the Winnipeg Jets.

SEwen@postmedia.com