Landon DuPont certainly lived up to his exceptional status in his first year in the WHL.

This season, the Everett Silvertips defenceman wants to take another step.

“We’ve got a lot of players coming back, and some new young talent coming up,” DuPont, 16, said in a telephone interview earlier this summer. “Hopefully we can get our redemption from last year and hopefully win a championship.”

The first defenceman to be granted exceptional status into the WHL and allowed to enter the league a year early was ready for the challenge.

DuPont, the son of former NHL defenceman Micki DuPont, put up 17 goals and 43 assists for 60 points in 65 regular-season games before notching five goals and 10 assists in 10 playoff games for the WHL’s top team in the regular season.

The Calgary native was nam

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