There could be a number of local hockey players getting phone calls from OHL teams this weekend. A list of players in the OHL Priority Selection preview guide showed both Huron Perth Lakers and Grey Bruce Highlanders on the radars of OHL teams.
Headlining the list is Kade Landry. The Listowel native and Huron Perth Lakers defenseman was invited to the league combine earlier this month.
Skaters joining Landry on the preview list are Devon Carter (Hensall), Carter Collinson (Listowel), Conner Drager (Exeter), Blair Butchart (Palmerston), Michael Deelstra(Wallace), Ben Derrough (Goderich), Jake Fair(Ripley), Tanner Hertel (Stratford) , Scott Stovel (Stratford) and Ashton Stockie (Stratford), Will Thibeault (Stratford), Rhys Vollmer (Ripley) and Isaiah Waxman (Stratford).
One prediction from McKeen's Hockey has Hertel and Landry being taken just shy of the top 100 picks. Ben Derrough is penciled in near the 200th picks.
Another 14 players made the list from the Grey-Bruce Highlanders. Jakob Lee of Owen Sound may have a high stock after scoring 51 goals and 83 points this season.
Other local players from the Highlanders include Brenden Clayton (Hanover), Michael Fiegehen (Saugeen Shores), Jordan Franks (Dundalk), Noah Johnson (Durham), Quinton Maddock (Owen Sound), William Rickerby (Saugeen Shores), Danny Skinner (Kincardine), Noah Solinger (Chatsworth), Logan Swanton(Lion's Head), Bradyn Thompson (Dundalk), Joshua Urbshott (Wiarton), Andrew Vardy (Owen Sound) and Troy Weber (Mount Forest).
One other notable on the list is Hanover Barons defenseman Colton Culbert. After winning the Western Junior C rookie of the year title, Culbert has found him self on the list of some OHL teams. He is a 98 born, born on the day of the league's age cutoff and not selected last year.
*Note: All junior age players born before September 15, 2015 are eligible to be selected.
