A number of players from the Quad Counties have been drafted into the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
The QMJHL draft took place Friday and Saturday.
Tyler Peddle of St. Andrews, Antigonish Co. went in the first round (second overall) to Drummondville, a pick originally held- and later traded- by the Cape Breton Eagles.
Peddle, the son of StFX men’s hockey head coach Brad Peddle, is still deciding if he’ll play major junior or US college hockey.
Five members of the Cape Breton West Islanders were drafted in later rounds:
-Antigonish’s Leyton Stewart (eighth round by the Quebec Remparts)
-Port Hawkesbury’s Ryan Hayes (eighth round by the Acadie-Bathurst Titan)
-Antigonish’s Jack Milner (ninth round by the Halifax Mooseheads)
-Antigonish’s Kevin Walker (ninth round by the Charlottetown Islanders)
-North Grant, Antigonish Co.’s Ray MacKinnon (10th round by the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada)