His dad is coaching in Abbotsford which is under 30 minutes to Chilliwack so I’m thinking probably not. Also let’s assume if he did come to Brantford and it was only for a year and a half, is it worth the conditional draft picks we give up? He’s not exactly lighting up the BCHL, i don’t know how much of an impact he would have this year. I would be more intrigued if we get him this year and atleast two full seasons after.
I do wonder if one of the impacts in particular the next couple of years is that players that were planning to go NCAA at 18 delay their enrolment for a season or two as schools can now get ready to play 20 year old CHL grads as freshman instead of an 18 year old who played two years at lower level junior hockey than the CHL leagues. With Boston U now have a deeper pool of players to recruit from, maybe it puts pressure on Maholtra to join the OHL to prove to them he can produce at a high level.
I’m sure in his ideal world he would like to play somewhere in the WHL before going to NCAA. If Brantford released his rights, would we still have to give Kingston the conditional picks?
