Going through the year end files for the 20 Ontario Hockey League teams, I was struck by how many 2nd round draft picks for the 2020 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection have been traded, shifted, shuffled, re-acquired and then dealt again though the years leading up to Saturday's draft.
The list below is done alphabetically for each division.
It's certainly not in chronological order, and it's far from 100% accurate, ( did Sarnia really acquire Windsor's 2nd rounder three different times ?….& how often did the Steelheads 2nd get flipped ? ) but rather it serves as a staggering illustration of how frequently 2nd round picks for the 2020 OHL Priority Selection got swapped before draft day arrives.
FWW
Midwest Division
Erie Otters
acquired Ottawa's 2nd
acquired Guelph's 2nd from Sault Ste Marie
Guelph Storm
re-acquired their own 2nd round pick from Kitchener
acquired Mississauga 2nd from Hamilton
acquired North Bay 2nd
acquired Sault Ste Marie 2nd
dealt Mississauga;s 2nd to Owen Sound
dealt their 2nd to Kitchener
dealt North Bay 2nd to Hamilton
dealt their 2nd to Sault Ste Marie
Kitchener Rangers
acquired Guelph 2nd from Oshawa
acquired Sault Ste Marie 2nd from Niagara
London Knights
acquired Kingston 2nd
acquired Mississauga 2nd from Hamilton
acquired Niagara 2nd from Flint
acquired conditional Oshawa 2nd from Flint
Owen Sound Attack
acquired Mississauga 2nd from Guelph
acquired Kitchener 2nd from Hamilton
dealt 2nd to North Bay
dealt Mississauga's 2nd to Peterborough
West Division
Flint Firebirds
acquired Kitchener's 2nd
acquired Niagara's 2nd from Hamilton
acquired Oshawa's 2nd
dealt their 2nd to Windsor
Saginaw Spirit
acquired Sudbury's 2nd from London
acquired Oshawa's 2nd from Barrie
acquired Barrie's 2nd
dealt Oshawa's 2nd back to Oshawa
dealt Barrie's 2nd to Mississauga
dealt their 2nd to Mississauga
Sarnia Sting
acquired Windsor's 2nd from Oshawa
acquired Windsor's 2nd from Ottawa
acquired Windsor's 2nd from Peterborough
Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds
acquired Guelph 2nd
dealt Guelph 2nd to Erie
Windsor Spitfires
acquired London's 2nd from Hamilton
acquired Flint's 2nd
dealt Mississauga 2nd to Kingston
Central Division
Barrie Colts
acquired Oshawa's 2nd from Saginaw
dealt Oshawa's 2nd to Saginaw
Mississauga Steelheads
acquired Barrie 2nd from Saginaw
acquired Saginaw 2nd
Niagara IceDogs
acquired Mississauga 2nd from Peterborough
acquired Oshawa 2nd
acquired Sault Ste Marie 2nd from Peterborough
dealt London 2nd to Oshawa
North Bay Battalion
acquired Owen Sound 2nd
dealt their 2nd to Guelph
Sudbury Wolves
couldn't find anything for the Wolves…..
East Division
Hamilton Bulldogs
acquired Kitchener's 2nd from Guelph
acquired London's 2nd from Oshawa
acquired Niagara 2nd
dealt Kitchener 2nd to Owen Sound
dealt London 2nd to Windsor
dealt North Bay 2nd to Guelph
Kingston Frontenacs
dealt their 2nd to London
acquired Mississauga's 2nd from Windsor
Oshawa Generals
acquired London's 2nd from Niagara
re-acquired their own 2nd from Saginaw
acquired Windsor 2nd from Ottawa
acquired Hamilton 2nd
dealt their 2nd to Niagara
dealt Windsor 2nd to Sarnia
dealt London 2nd to Hamilton
dealt Hamilton 2nd to Ottawa
dealt Guelph 2nd to Kitchener
Ottawa 67's
acquired Hamilton 2nd from Oshawa
acquired Windsor 2nd from Sarnia
dealt Windsor 2nd to Oshawa
dealt their 2nd to Erie
Peterborough Petes
acquired Mississauga 2nd from Owen Sound
acquired Sarnia 2nd
acquired Sault Ste Marie 2nd
acquired Windsor 2nd
dealt Mississauga's 2nd to Niagara
The other note of interest is to see who exactly gets selected with Owen Sound's 4th round selection.
You know the story……………….
Owen Sound sent a conditional 7th round draft pick to Oshawa in exchange for Goalkeeper Nathan Torchia in the Summer of 2018.
The condition was that the pick would become a 4th round pick in 2020 if Torchia was with the Attack at a certain point in the season ( The Attack claimed at one point the deadline for the condition to kick in was around Christmas…that's what they told me )
As it turned out, Torchia took the warm up for the season opener in 2018 at Barrie on September 20th, served as the backup for Mack Guzda for that one game and then was released by the club in favor of Andrew MacLean.
Oshawa didn't see the conditions on the original 7th the same way Owen Sound did, and based on Torchia performing for 15 minutes in the warmup, the Generals eventually sent the 7th cum 4th round pick to Sarnia for Anthony Salinitri.
Around this time, Owen Sound started to scream ” foul “.
Undaunted, Sarnia took the Owen Sound 4th round pick they acquired from the Generals and sent it to Sudbury as part of the deal for Anthony Tabak.
Now, Owen Sound is really agitated.
And then prior to this season, the Wolves took that 4th round Owen Sound pick in 2020 and sent it to North Bay in exchange for netminder Christian Purboo.
So as far as I know, North Bay will utilize Owen Sound's 4th round pick on Saturday, and whoever the Battalion take will be the answer to a complex trivia question.