SMHA players were selected in record numbers during Thursday's WHL draft, while the Saskatoon Blades filled in their long-range depth.
“It’s a year’s worth of work distilled into seven or eight hours,” Blades’ general manager Colin Priestner said of the always-challenging draft day. “There’s decisions that can have a big impact on the future of the team, that you have to make in five seconds sometimes — a team presents you with something, and you have to decide on the spot whether you want to stick with the original plan, or deviate and go with what someone’s offering you.
“We had two guys who were clearly starting goalies in the league,” Priestner said. “We felt it wasn’t fair for them anymore to be splitting games and to be running a tandem, when they’re clearly both worthy of being starters and getting that load of games as 19 year olds. It just made a lot of sense for us to move on with one of them.”
“We felt it was the right thing to do to set the tandem now, and get both guys comfortable over the summer with what their situations are going to be,” Priestner said.Article content He said Williams is a “very, very intelligent player” who snuck up on people this year, and he sees him as a top-two-line player.
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