Patrick Kyte

This will be Patrick’s first season playing professional hockey after spending the last four seasons in the USports league with both St Francis Xavier University and the University of New Brunswick. The 25 year old left shot blueliner played Major Junior hockey for three seasons in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League with both the Halifax Mooseheads and Chicoutimi Sagueneens. He went to the Memorial Cup Championship game with the Mooseheads and spent two seasons playing alongside ex Flyer Adam Holwell when with St Francis Xavier. Known by his friends and family as “Patty,” Kyte is the nephew of the National Hockey League’s first and to date only deaf player, Jim Kyte.  The Kyte family has a long history of hearing loss due to auditory nerve degeneration. Jim’s dad was deaf, as are his four brothers. Patty Kyte is also hearing impaired and along with other nieces and nephews of Jim, Johnny, Sean, Thomas, Emma and her twin sister Abi represented Canada at the World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships. Last season he transferred to fierce rivals New Brunswick and went on to win a repeat Championship with them as the Reds went undefeated throughout the entire season.