{"id":16013,"date":"2016-12-07T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16013"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:08:05","slug":"former-tiger-shortlisted-for-nhl-draft-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/former-tiger-shortlisted-for-nhl-draft-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tiger shortlisted for NHL draft first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

A key component of last season\u2019s Junior A Aurora Tigers squad has been projected by the NHL as one of the first thirty picks in the 2017 entry draft.
\nAlex Formenton, one of only two Tigers to suit up for all 54 games in the 2015-16 OJHL season, signed with the OHL\u2019s London Knights in the offseason. The King City native, a natural left-winger, joined the Tigers following a successful Minor Midget season with the AAA Misssissauga Rebels in 2014-15.
\nWith fourteen points through the first 27 games in the OHL, the 17-year old has been pegged as a first round candidate by the NHL\u2019s Central Scouting division.
\n\u201cI would say my game has definitely improved,\u201d said Formenton. \u201cI just try to play my game, and get lots of scoring chances.\u201d
\nFormenton recorded thirteen goals and thirteen assists in his one season with Aurora.
\nAlso making the list was Formenton\u2019s teammate Robert Thomas, a former member of the York-Simcoe Express now in his second year with the Knights. The Aurora native has been projected by the NHL as a second round draft pick in 2017, playing at over a point-per-game pace so far this season.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s always been a dream of mine to get drafted,\u201d said Thomas. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to work as hard as I can and play my best.\u201d
\nThe 5\u201911\u201d, 175-lb. Thomas has been cemented into the second line centre role in London since joining the Knights last season.
\n\u201cYou\u2019re going to get a lot of criticism, and people critiquing how you play, but you just have to focus on your game.\u201d
\nBoth players will be waiting to hear their names called in the draft in late June.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A key component of last season\u2019s Junior A Aurora Tigers squad has been projected by the NHL as one of the first thirty picks in the 2017 entry draft.
\nAlex Formenton, one of only two Tigers to suit up for all 54 games in the 2015-16 OJHL season, signed with the OHL\u2019s London Knights in the offseason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-08-07.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-4ah","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:26:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16013","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=16013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}