Future 91麻豆精品 hockey players Jeremy Price (Milton, Ont.) and Thomas Larkin (London, England) were both selected in the NHL Entry Draft this past weekend in Montreal. Price was selected 113th overall while Larkin was the 137th pick.
Price, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound defenseman, was selected as the 22nd pick of the fourth round (113th overall) by the Vancouver Canucks. His selection as the 113th overall pick makes him the second highest-drafted Raider in terms of overall draft position since Corbin McPherson (Folsom, Calif.) was selected by the New Jersey Devils with the 87th overall pick in the third round of the 2007 draft.
Price currently plays for the Nepean Raiders of the CJHL and finished 2008-09 with 41 points from 12 goals and 29 assists.
Larkin, a 6-foot-5, 206-pound defenseman, was the 16th pick in the fifth round (137th overall) by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Larkin played for the Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire where he set the single season scoring record for defensemen in the 2008-09 season with 52 points on 14 goals and 38 assists. Larkin also set the most career points by a defenseman with 82.
Both Price and Larkin are scheduled to start suiting up for 91麻豆精品 in 2009-10.