ALBERTON
Three Prince Edward Islanders were picked up in the United States Hockey League’s Tier 1 Junior Hockey draft on Monday and Tuesday.
Charlie DesRoches from Days Corner was drafted by Cedar Rapids in the third round, 37th overall of the Phase I “Futures” Draft on Monday. The Phase One Draft is for players born in 2002 only.
The five-foot 10 DesRoches, who attended South Kent School in Connecticut, played right defense for the school’s Selects Academy 15s in the 2017-18 season, registering 12 goals and 30 assists in 53 games. In the 2016-17 season with the Kensington Wild he picked up nine goals and 14 assists.
In the Phase II Draft, held Tuesday, 17 year-old Brad Morrissey from Seacow Pond was picked up by Nebraska’s Tri-City Storm in the fifth round, sixty-eighth overall. Morrissey is coming off a banner season with the Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League where he picked up 21 goals and 30 assists in 32 regular season games. His school team from Athol Murray College of Notre Dame went on to win the Telus Cup National Midget championship and Morrissey, a right-winger, was named the tournament’s most sportsmanlike player. The 2017 Charlottetown Islanders QMJHL draft pick is finishing up his third school year at Notre Dame. He played with the Prince County Warriors in 2014-15.
Taken in the seventeenth round, 270th overall was Dallas Farrell from Stratford. Farrell, a five-foot 11 center who turns 19 later this month, has played the last two seasons with the Boston Junior Bruins and for three seasons before that he played for Notre Dame teams. He played the 2012-13 season with the Kings County Bantams.
