you don't have to tell me about this, i work as a scout in the league and it is hard to sell maritime kids to quebec based teams....ill give you a few examples.......this past draft guys like Cambell Pickard, Luc Deschenes, Andrew Shewfelt all should have went higher than they went....Jesse Hamer should have been drafted for sure........in the past I brought Brandon Whitney up to my team in the 4th round, they said he is not that good we saw him in quebec at the kiwanas and he was not good at all, I said the kid is big, athletic and very raw and he is doing well on a really bad team, so we never took him and now he is NHL drafted....i told the team in the 3rd round to take Casey Babineau and they said he skates too slow so we never took him and now he is good for Rimomuski, same as signing Peter Trainor as a free agent from Fredricton and the head scout said he never got drafted for a reason there are a 100 players in quebec midget like him so rimouski signed him and he scored 100 points....told the team to take Stephen MacAuley from Cole Harbor and they said in Quebec there are many players like him, we would rather take a french speaking guy in the late rounds who is like him which look where MacAuley turned out.....I wanted Mason McDonald in the draft, we had a later first round pick and we passed him up though we had no goalies in the system and they said well he is ok but nothing special....he seems pretty good to me lol. so i know all too well the bias in the league and how maritimers usually do not go where they should.....oh another guy i liked this year who went way too late was Jean-Michael Leblanc.