Landon Dupont Earns WHL Player of the Week After 3-Point Run
landon dupont turned a two-game playoff week into Tempo WHL Player of the Week honors after posting three points and a plus-3 rating for Everett. The 16-year-old defenceman did it while the Silvertips built a 2-0 lead over the Penticton Vees in the best-of-seven WHL Western Conference Championship Series.
The Western Hockey League gave DuPont the award for the week ending Sunday, April 26. He had one goal and two assists in two games, keeping his name on the scoresheet in every WHL playoff game he has played this spring.
DuPont’s Game 1 start
DuPont set the tone in Everett’s 4-1 win over Penticton on Thursday, April 23. He opened the scoring at 12:12 of the first period, then helped on Jaxsin Vaughan’s game-winner with 4:44 left in the second period.
That night gave him his fourth goal of the post-season and a first-star nod. He finished Game 1 with a plus-2 rating, a clean line for a defenseman who kept adding offense when Everett needed it most.
Everett’s playoff push
Game 2 stretched the same pattern into deeper water. DuPont added an assist in a 5-4 double overtime win, extending his WHL-leading playoff point streak to 11 games when his power-play point shot from just inside the blueline was redirected by Rylan Gould with 4:09 left in the second period.
Gould later scored the overtime winner at 5:41 of the second overtime period. The pair of playoff wins left Everett ahead 2-0 in the series, and DuPont’s 16 points in 11 games put him tied for third in 2026 WHL Playoffs scoring and tied atop the Silvertips’ scoring chart with Matias Vanhanen.
DuPont’s bigger spring
The week fit into a larger run that started long before this series. Everett selected DuPont with the first-overall pick in the 2024 WHL Prospects Draft, and he followed last season’s 60 points in 64 games as a 15-year-old with a 73-point regular season in 63 games. He also finished as a finalist for the WHL’s Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy, made the WHL Western Conference First All-Star Team, and became the first defenceman in WHL history to be granted exceptional status.
He now has 133 career WHL regular season points and 31 career WHL Playoff points. For Everett, the immediate edge stays with a defender who has scored in every playoff game he has played this spring and keeps turning possession into goals at the top of the lineup.
