Three Whalers selected on Saturday
On the second day of the 2007 NHL Draft, three Plymouth Whalers’ players were selected.
Goaltender Jeremy Smith, the number one ranked North American goaltender, surprisingly did not go until #54 overall (2nd round). He apparently wanted to go to Colorado because he felt his situation would be best there so he was obviously disappointed when the Avs selected the #2 ranked goalie, Trevor Cann of the Peterborough Petes. He ended up going to Nashville, who traded away goaltender Tomas Vokoun yesterday.
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Both forward Chris Terry and defenseman Brett Bellemore were selected by the Carolina Hurricanes (#132 and #162 respectively). Peter Karmanos owns both the Whalers and Hurricanes.
As for the next two picks, the Hurricanes kept it in the family by drafting the two players from the Whalers. Terry, a 5’10†left wing, was able to score 66 points in 68 games despite a slow start to the year caused by off-season knee surgery. Bellemore, a big 6’4†defenseman, led the entire Canadian Hockey League with a +48 plus/minus rating.
Terry, who besides Sutter was the only Hurricanes choice to attend the draft, said he was hoping to be selected by the Hurricanes.
“I’m pretty familiar [with the Hurricanes], being that Mr. Karmanos owns the Hurricanes and also the Whalers, which I play on,†he said. We have a lot of banners and pictures around our building and our head coach is always talking about them.”
Chris Terry in the Canes’ jersey
Source: CarolinaHurricanes.com
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