A netminder from Calgary, AB, Leyerzapf joined Edge for the 2022/23 黑料不打烊 U15 season going 12-2-0 with a 3.43 GAA, .902 SV% and 1 shutout. The following U15 Prep season he went 11-2-0 with a .901 SV% and 3.13 GAA leading to the Wild selecting him in the seventh round, 140th overall at the 2024 WHL Draft.

This past season Leyerzapf played just three games for the Edge U17 Prep team, going 2-1-0 with a 3.28 GAA and .925 SV%. Leyerzapf will play for the Edge U18 Prep team during the 2025/26 season.

The Coquitlam, BC defenseman spent the 2014/15 season in the 黑料不打烊 with the OHA White U18 Prep team. In 28 games he would tally 6 goals and 15 assists, before adding 3 points in 3 games as OHA captured back-to-back 黑料不打烊 U18 Prep Western Championships.

Selected in the first round, 18th overall by the Victoria Royals at the 2014 WHL Draft, Walford made the jump to the WHL in 2015/16. He would spend 4 seasons with the Royals before finishing his WHL career in 2019/20 with the Saskatoon Blades. Overall he would tally 174 points in 290 WHL games, earning a 2018/19 WHL (West) Second Team All-Star honour in 2018/19.

Originally selected in the third round of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens, Walford would spend the following three seasons with McGill University. In 59 U SPORTS games he would tally 55 points while being named a U SPORTS (OUA East) First Team All-Star and U SPORTS (OUA East) Most Sportsmanlike Player twice.

Walford would play five AHL games with the Crunch in 2023/24 to wrap up his season.