After graduating from Totino-Grace High School in 2025, Tre Peck wasn’t sure what his future in junior hockey would have in store for him.

He had already dipped his toes into the next level of competition by playing in a handful of games for both the Powell River Kings of the British Columbia Hockey League and the St. Cloud Norsemen of the North American Hockey League but he had his sights set on making a roster in the USHL or the WHL. He knew that it would be a tall task, especially as an undersized forward competing against some of the best young skaters in the world, but he felt confident in his skillset and knew that he had a shot if he gave it his all.

Peck, who was the leading scorer of his high school team in Minnesota as a both a junior and a senior, was understandably a bit upset when he wasn’t drafted to a USHL team that summer. He felt like he had proven himself while playing in the NAHL and in the BCHL and that his varsity statistics were good enough to earn a USHL draft slot, but he decided to simply just focus on what he could control from there.

The Long Lake native decided to start attending some summer camps of various junior hockey organizations but nothing seemed to stick. He eventually went out west to attend the Seattle Thunderbirds camp of the WHL and he felt like he played really well there. He was putting up promising statistics at the event but he found out that he still didn’t make the cut to be on the team. Luckily enough, there were plenty of people watching the camp that saw Peck’s performance and wanted to take advantage of his talents elsewhere.

After not making a USHL or WHL roster, BCHL teams started to push hard to recruit Peck to their programs. Multiple teams were interested in bringing him on board, including Trail, Salmon Arm, Spruce Grove, and of course his rights were still currently to Powell River as well, so there were plenty of options in Western Canada for him.

“I woke up the one morning and I had my stuff packed up to go out to Salmon Arm and then Hunter [Warner - his advisor from APX Hockey] told me that Spruce grove kind of just swooped in and that they really liked me and that they have a great organization,” Peck told APX reporter Sydney Wolf. “I talked to Rob [Sklaruk - the General Manager and Vice President of Hockey Operations] on the phone and it sounded amazing there and I’m super glad that I’m here now and they’ve treated me amazing ever since. I’m really glad they took a chance on me and swooped in after seeing me a bit at camp.”

Just one phone call wound up changing everything for the Minnesota native and he headed out to Spruce Grove, Alberta, which is located just outside of Edmonton.

The decision to play for the Saints of the BCHL would become a very wise one, as Peck is now the leading scorer of the team in late January of 2026 with 29 points through 34 games played and he recently announced his commitment to play Division I college hockey at Army West Point - so things have been going well for the 5-foot-7 forward recently, to say the least.

Joining Spruce Grove and becoming an impact player on the team wasn’t easy from get go though and Peck had to face some ups and downs with the squad early on.

“I started off the season not super great right at the beginning of the year but then I had a pretty good talk with Rob and he just explained to me that ‘you’re here for a reason, we expect a lot of you and you put enough pressure on yourself - so just go out there and do what you do’, and the staff and the guys have been super great to me and it feels good to be producing now,” he said about how he found his footing a few games into the season.

Even though Peck might have thought that his start to the year was a bit rocky in 2025-26, his stats say otherwise as he had three assists in his first four games with the Saints and 11 points through his first 10 games - not shabby at all whatsoever. NCAA Division I schools started to take notice of his point production and after mulling over his options the 18-year-old forward announced his intent to play college hockey at the U.S. Military Academy on January 2, 2026.

“The biggest thing about West Point was that right when they started talking to me they were immediately very interested and they showed their interest right away, which is very important to me and it showed how much they valued me and they wanted to get me out for a visit right away,” Peck said about the recruiting process. “I went out there and it’s just an insane campus and I love the way that they talk about their culture - that’s a pretty huge thing for me.”

While pondering his options for college hockey, Peck was mostly looking at schools with a great culture, with great opportunities for development, and programs with a winning mentality. He saw all three of those boxes checked when he took his visit out to the campus in New York.

“They really sold me on the fact that once you’re there that you’re a brother for life. You’ll meet unbelievable friends and it’s a place where you’re pretty much set for life too,” he added about why he chose the Black Knights for his future in the sport of hockey. “They made it clear to me that they had a vision for me and I really liked that. I want to go somewhere where I feel that I can make an impact and really make things happen at the Division I level and it really just made the most sense.”

He was originally a bit hesitant about joining the military academy since he wasn’t sure about the rules regarding playing professional hockey after graduation since that has been a longtime dream of his but he was excited to hear that there are still plenty of options to pursue that avenue if he wants to in the future.

“Everyone kept saying the same thing to me - that when you go there [to West Point] it changes your life and that they would do it all over again 100 times, so that’s really cool when everyone is telling you the same thing.”

He will already have some familiar faces out at the campus in New York in the future as well since his old high school teammate at Totino-Grace, Thomas Quast, is also committed to West Point at the moment, along with plenty of other Minnesotan skaters. He’s not quite sure yet what he’ll study once he gets there but is considering something related to the medical field.

“Congratulations to client Tre Peck, an incredible student athlete, on committing Division I to play hockey at Army West Point,” said APX Senior Advisor Hunter Warner. “This is an achievement that reflects not only elite athletic ability but also outstanding character, discipline, and leadership. Being a student athlete at West Point is truly special. You’re competing at the highest level of college hockey while being developed as a leader of character, serving something bigger than yourself. The opportunity to earn a world-class education, represent the United States Military Academy, and grow as both an athlete and a future leader is unmatched.”

Gaining his Division I college commitment and garnering more attention to himself as a prospect this season in the BCHL has certainly provided a bit of a boost to Peck’s game over the past few weeks with Spruce Grove and he believes that both he and the team are on a upwards trajectory for the rest of the season.

“I honestly couldn’t be happier to be a part of this team and I think that if you’re playing the right way that the points will take care of themselves,” he said. “Having a team like West Point commit you, that definitely adds some confidence as well to just kind of go out there and not worry about anything but what’s right in front of you.”

Spruce Grove is currently in fourth place in the Interior East division standings but the Minnesotan forward is confident that his squad will have a strong finish to the year. The Saints recently underwent a change in its coaching staff in early January but the boys haven’t wavered and in fact are 7-3 in their last 10 games.

“I think we’ve kind of hit that turning point that we’re ready to contend to be a championship team - and that might sound like a surprise based off of our record but we’re headed in the right direction,” Peck said. “The boys are the most committed group that I have ever been around. We had kind of a crazy coaching change recently but the belief in the room hasn’t changed and we’re finding ways to win. We put it all out there every day and we work a lot.”

Peck originally started skating at a young age while living in the Chaska/Chanhassen area of Minnesota until moving over to the nearby Orono/Long Lake area around the time he was in third grade. His father is originally from New Mexico but his mother is Minnesotan and knew that skating and hockey were a big part of living in the state, so it just made sense that Tre and some of his siblings would learn how to skate as well. Tre, also known as Daniel Peck III, is the oldest child in his family with three younger siblings, two of which also play hockey.

Although Peck attended Totino-Grace for all four years of high school, that wasn’t his family’s original plan for him. He open enrolled and went to middle school in Minnetonka and even played Tier 1 hockey for the Green Bay Jr. Gamblers at one point but he eventually became connected with Totino head coach Tim Parkos and started to consider possibly joining the Eagles for high school. He knew that it would be incredibly tough to make the varsity roster at Minnetonka as a freshman, and even as a sophomore, so it made sense to go somewhere where he could play on varsity right away.

Peck wound up loving his time while at Totino-Grace, a Catholic high school in Fridley. He made the varsity roster as a freshman and posted eight points through 19 games played that season but he unfortunately had to miss almost the entire month of December that year due to an unlucky injury. His team scored a goal while he was out on his third shift of the game and one of his teammates ran into him during the celebration and broke his wrist, but it luckily all healed up and he was back on the ice after about a month or so.

The 5-foot-7 forward said that he felt comfortable with what he could do with the puck out on the ice as a freshman but that it was a little bit intimidating going up against guys who were up to four or five years older than him. He was extremely undersized at the point and jokes that he doesn’t think he was even five feet tall yet that season.

Despite being that small, he still had a ‘wow’ factor to his game that got him an invite after his freshman season to the USA Hockey Boys National 15s Camp that summer - an honor that only the top players in the country get to put on their resumes. Coaches and scouts definitely took note of his game and he said that attending that event certainly gave him a bit of a confidence boost heading into Year 2 on varsity.

As a sophomore at Totino-Grace, Peck doubled his point production and scored 16 points through 25 games played. He self-described this season as being a bit of a disappointment since he had such high standards for himself that he didn’t end up meeting.

“I think the biggest thing was more in the mental side for me … my sophomore year, my coach always told me that you get sophomore sickness because you expect things to go exactly as planned. When things weren’t going well that year I got upset and down and in my junior year I just kept reminding myself that there’s gonna be ups and downs but if you just play your game, that’s going to happen,” he said about learning to roll with the punches in high school hockey. “Mentally, you get used to the ups and downs and you get used to the short seasons too because 26 games was nothing compared to how much you’d play in youth hockey.”

Peck became more of an explosive prospect during his junior season in 2023-24 where he led the Eagles in scoring with 45 points in 26 games. He wound up becoming connected with Powell River of the BCHL that year and he played in a few preseason games in 2023-24 before high school competition started and then he went back out to the team after the high school season was over, appearing in two contests and netting a goal in one of them.

Prior to the start of his senior season at Totino-Grace, Peck was considering spending the year up in Powell River and forgoing his final year of high school hockey. He played in 18 games and registered five points before deciding to return to the Eagles in 2024-25 for his senior year. He wound up leading the varsity squad in scoring again, this time with a whopping 58 points through 26 games - which was 28 more points than the next closest skater on the roster.

Following the end of his time at Totino, he joined the St. Cloud Norsemen of the NAHL for a handful of games in 2025 instead of returning to Powell River. The Kings were not in a playoff position so they wouldn’t have too many games left and it was also very far away from home, so the Norsemen seemed like a bit of a better fit, being only about an hour and a half away from home. He appeared in 11 games with St. Cloud and posted two points in those contests before he decided to try and push for a USHL or WHL roster spot that summer and winding up in Spruce Grove now in 2025-26.

Now, in late January of 2026, Peck is excited about the rest of the season with the Saints and is feeling good about their future. The Minnesotan has 9 points in his last 8 games at the moment.

Being only 18-years-old at the moment, it is currently up on the air when Peck will join the roster at Army West Point but for now he’s focused on becoming the best player that he can possibly be.

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