Storm take defenceman with first round pick
By Tony Saxon, Guelph Today
The Guelph Storm went with a blueliner with its first round pick in Friday’s OHL Priority Selection, taking six-foot-one, 185-pound right shot defenceman Cameron Allen from the Toronto Young Nats.
“We think we got the best one,” Storm coach/GM George Burnett said of the top defencemen in the draft, a focus of the team after drafting a lot of forwards in the early rounds the last two years.
“He’s been at the top of this group for an extended period of time. He plays with an edge. He skates extremely well. We think he’s the most ready-to-play defenceman in the group.:
The first three years of the OHL Priority Selection were held online Friday. The other 12 rounds will go Saturday.
Allen was one of only three blueliners taken in the first round.
