Six local players closer to NHL dream
Posted Jun 27, 2016 06:00:05 AM.
Last Updated Jun 27, 2016 06:01:44 AM.
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Six local hockey players are much closer to playing in the National Hockey League.
Waterloo’s Logan Stanley was the first of the local players to be selected in the NHL draft in Buffalo over the weekend.
Stanley was a first round pick (18th overall) of the Winnipeg Jets.
Kitchener Rangers forward Adam Mascherin was taken by the Florida Panthers in the second round (38th overall).
Kitchener’s Nathan Bastian went three picks later to New Jersey (41st overall).
Boris Katchouk, of Waterloo, was also a second round pick, selected by Tampa Bay (44th overall).
Meantime, Kitchener Rangers teammates Connor Hall and Connor Bunnaman may be part of the Penguins-Flyers rivalry if they make the squads.
Hall was a third round pick of Pittsburgh (77th overall) and Bunnaman was drafted by Philadelphia in the fourth round (109th overall).
