Raiders' Incoming Freshmen Selected in NHL Entry Draft
MONTREAL, Que. -- Colgate incoming freshmen Jeremy Price
(Milton, Ont.) and Thomas Larkin (London, England) were both
selected in the NHL Entry Draft on Saturday, June 27, in Montreal.
Price was selected 113th overall while Larkin was the 137th
pick.
Price, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound defenseman, was selected as the 22nd
pick of the fourth round 113th overall by the Vancouver Canucks.
His selection as the 113th overall pick makes him the second
highest-drafted Raider in terms of overall draft position since
Corbin McPherson (Folsom, Calif.) was selected by the New Jersey
Devils with the 87th overall pick in the third round of the 2007
NHL Draft.
Price currently plays for the Nepean Raiders of the CJHL and
finished 2008-09 with 41 points from 12 goals and 29 assists.
Larkin, a 6-foot-5, 206-pound defenseman, was the 16th pick in the
fifth round 137th overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Larkin
played for the Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire where he set
the single season scoring record for defenseman in the 2008-09
season with 52 points on 14 goals and 38 assists. Larkin also set
the most career points by a defenseman with 82.
Both Price and Larkin are scheduled to start suiting up for Colgate
in 2009-10.
