THUNDER BAY – It wasn’t expected to be a deep OHL Priority Selection draft for the Thunder Bay Kings, and that’s how it played out on Saturday.
Just two players off the minor midget team heard their names called, defenceman Matthew Halushak, who was grabbed in the ninth round, 180th overall, by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, and forward Michael Stubbs, who went four rounds later, 248th overall, to Mississauga.
Halushak, who stands 6-foot-3 at 15, had one assists in 11 games with the Kings, and was held off the scoresheet during the OHL Cup.
Stubbs, a 5-foot-8 centre, had 12 goals and eight assists in 17 league games, adding one goal in three OHL Cup appearances.
Ear Falls’ Dylan Winsor was the top Northwestern Ontario player to get drafted, going in the eighth round to the Kitchener Rangers.
Winsor, playing for the Thistles at the Telus Cup Western Regional in Thunder Bay, had 20 goals and 30 assists in 48 games this season.
York-Simcoe Express centre Quinton Byfield, who played last year in Thunder Bay during the All-Ontario Bantam Championship, was the top choice, taken by the Sudbury Wolves No. 1 overall.
