What ever happened to: The Vancouver Canucks 2003 draft class (Part 1)

The Canucks drafted Ty Morris out of the Alberta Junior Hockey League for his offence and grit. In his draft year, the young winger scored 82 points in 58 games for the St. Albert Saints while accumulating 226 penalty minutes. He immediately graduated to the WHL, joining the Swift Current Broncos for just 21 games before moving on to the local Vancouver Giants.

In two seasons with the Giants, Morris produced decent, if unspectacular numbers, while seeing a sharp reduction in penalty minutes from his pre-draft form. Part way through the 2004-05 season, he was sent to the Red Deer Rebels, where he played out what turned out to be his final WHL campaign. The next year, Morris entered the ECHL as a member of the South Carolina Stingrays, where he continued to put up solid numbers (32 points in 52 games).

In 2006, Morris began his first season for Peiting EC of the German Oberliga, playing in a country that would become his home for the next 14 years. There he was able to resurrect the scoring ability that had somewhat escaped him over the previous seasons, scoring 61 points in 47 games for Peiting.

Morris began the 2007-08 season playing for Bad Nauheim of the Oberliga, but was promoted after 14 games to the 2nd Bundesliga — the German second tier –for the remainder of the season. While the 2008-09 season was also split between the two leagues, Morris remained in the 2nd Bundesliga until 2015 — playing primarily for the Landshut Cannibals — apart from 40 games spent with Munich EHC of the top-tier DEL in 2012-13. All the while, he produced at around a point-per-game rate. Since 2015, Morris has been playing for Peiting and has flourished as one of the team’s leading scorers.