{"id":13708,"date":"2016-03-23T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2016-03-30T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:52:58","slug":"tigers-forward-formenton-signs-with-ohls-knights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/tigers-forward-formenton-signs-with-ohls-knights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers forward Formenton signs with OHL\u2019s Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alex Formenton is taking the next step in his hockey career after a successful season with the Junior A Aurora Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>London Knights General Manager Basil McRae announced last week the team signed Formenton to an OHL Standard Player\u2019s Agreement, one year after drafting him in the OHL Priority Selection draft.<\/p>\n<p>The King City native, a natural left-winger, spent the 2015-16 season with the Tigers after a productive Minor Midget campaign with the Mississauga Rebels one year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Through one season in the OJHL, Formenton put up thirteen goals and thirteen assists in 54 games. <\/p>\n<p>He added two more goals in the 2016 postseason, through the Tigers\u2019 six-game opening series with the Wellington Dukes. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his career, playing in both the OJHL and GTHL, Formenton has a total of 84 points and 160 PIMS in 127 combined regular season and playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud to be a part of the London Knights,\u201d Formenton said in a tweet. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to get things started and wear the logo next year.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile the Tigers had a disappointing early exit in the OJHL playoffs, the major junior Knights open their postseason next week after finishing tied atop the OHL standings with the Erie Otters. <\/p>\n<p>The Knights took the 16-year old in the eleventh round, 216th overall in the 2015 draft. The OHL is ranked as the third-best developmental hockey league in North America, and the top among non-professional players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Formenton is taking the next step in his hockey career after a successful season with the Junior A Aurora Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}