OTTAWA – General manager Warren Rychel continued to reshape the Windsor Spitfires’ roster on Sunday with another blockbuster trade.

Just after the team’s 4-3 overtime win over the Ottawa 67’s, the club traded veteran cenre Logan Brown an overage defenceman Austin McEneny to the Kitchener Rangers.

In return, the Spitfires received 16-year-old defenceman Grayson Ladd, who was Kitchener’s first-round pick in 2017, along with Saginaw’s second-round pick in 2018, Saginaw’s third-round pick in 2018, Kingston’s second-round pick in 2019 and Kitchener’s fifth-round pick in 2019.

“There’s no sense doing a half rebuild,” Rychel said. “It’s pretty much a full rebuild. You’ve just got to look to the future.”

Rychel has picked up a pair of 2017 OHL first-round picks in the last week getting Grayson on Sunday and Cody Morgan in the deal for Gabriel Vilardi and Sean Day along with 17-year-old centre Curtis Douglas from Barrie in the trade for overage centre Aaron Luchuk.

Combined with earlier trades that sent Logan Stanley to Kitchener and Hayden McCool to Oshawa, Rychel has acquired 12 picks in the second round, two of which are conditional, five picks in the third round, one of which is conditional, two picks in the fourth round, one in the fifth round and one in the 15^th round.

“It was a lot harder than I thought,” Rychel said of the massive roster overhaul. “It’s just time for the Spits to move on a rebuild. I think we’re close to complete.”

Sunday’s trade was rumoured for days, but was held up by Brown, who was injured while playing for the United States at the world junior tournament. He did not rejoin the team after the tournament and was examined by team doctors from the Ottawa Senators on Saturday to determine the severity of the injury. Rychel said he will only be out a week and the trade was finalized on Sunday.

“Brownie came in as kid, lived as my house and is leaving a pretty good hockey player,” Rychel said of Brown, who was a first-round pick by Ottawa and Niagara’s first-round pick in 2014. “He’s come a long way and I want to thank him for everything he’s done.”

McEneny played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and came to the Spitfires as a free agent invite last season and earned a job.

“Mac came here with his skates and a bag of clothes and made the team and won a Memorial Cup,” Rychel said. “I think he’s going to make money in the game. He’s undercover good and right now playing some unbelievable hockey and it’s going to be good for Kitchener.”

McEneny was scratched just before Sunday’s game in Ottawa and was emotional when talking about being dealt from Windsor.

“The Windsor Spitfires gave me the biggest opportunity of my entire career,” the 20-year-old McEneny said. “I was just a nobody coming from the Q(MJHL) and they gave me the opportunity and I just had to go with it. I can’t thank them enough.

“Windsor’s my second home. Windsor I’ve grown to love. It’s going to be hard saying goodbye and moving on to a new beginning.”

The Spitfires had just one pick in the first four rounds of the 2017 OHL Draft, but Rychel has now secured three of the top 17 picks in that draft with Morgan and Ladd joining Nathan Staios.

“He’s a real good two-way defenceman,” Rychel said of Ladd, who is from just outside of Chatham in Kent Bridge. “He’s got so many good things to work with. His height, his long stick, he’s right-handed, which is hard to find, and he’s got a bright future ahead of him. He’s got unlimited potential.”

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