Some news and notes from NHL Draft day…
- According to media people, there were 31 QMJHL players
chosen in yesterday’s draft. That includes six going in the first-round. That's pretty good. Elite Prospects has a list of all the players chosen.
- Patrick Roy and the Colorado Avalanche selected Nathan
MacKinnon first overall. MacKinnon’s Halifax teammate – Jonathan Drouin – went
third overall to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Zach Fucale (36th – Montreal) and MacKenzie Weegar (206th
– Florida) were the other Mooseheads picked.
- MacKinnon was the only QMJHL player the Avs selected.
- The Florida Panthers opted to pass on Seth Jones and
selected Russian centre Aleksander Barkov with the second overall pick, giving
former Sea Dogs captain Jonathan Huberdeau some offensive support in South
Beach. Florida also selected two QMJHL players – the Armada’s Christopher
Clapperton in the fifth-round and the Mooseheads’ MacKenzie Weegar in the
seventh-round.
- As we noted yesterday, no Sea Dogs were selected in
yesterday’s draft. According to TVA Sports’ Mikael Lalancette, Moncton, Saint
John, Drummondville, Sherbrooke, and Bathurst did not have a player picked in
the draft.
- When the St. Louis Blues selected Cape Breton forward
William Carrier late in the second-round, TSN analyst Craig Button told us how
he really felt about the Screaming Eagles team this past season. He went off on
a small rant about how bad they were.
- The Toronto Maple Leafs picked two players from the QMJHL
yesterday. They used their first-round pick to take Rimouski’s Frederik Gauthier
and then took Charlottetown goaltender Antoine Bibeau in the sixth-round.
- According to a tweet from the Rimouski Oceanic, former
Sea Dogs prospect Maxime Gravel and Fredericton native Peter Trainor have been
invited to Montreal Canadiens camp. Neither were drafted yesterday, obviously.
- Next year's draft will be held in Philadelphia.
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