{"id":10445,"date":"2019-06-10T10:58:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:58:15","slug":"foston-excited-to-be-a-halifax-moosehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10445","title":{"rendered":"Foston excited to be a Halifax Moosehead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BEAVER BANK: <\/strong>Cole Foston will get to live out every young hockey fans dream who grew up watching the Halifax Mooseheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foston,\n a Lockview High student who hails from Beaver Bank, was the Memorial \nCup runner ups first pick in the 2019 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League \ndraft, held June 8 in Quebec City. The selection came in the fourth \nround, 70th overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was pretty relieved when I got drafted,\u201d said Foston. \u201cIt feels 10 times better that it\u2019s my hometown team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foston\n suited up for the Andre Lefebvre coached Cole Harbour Wolfpack in 2018,\n where he tallied 12 goals and 25 points in 35 games during the regular \nseason. He also racked up 20 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His phone started blowing up with texts from friends after he was selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI could feel my phone vibrating a lot in my pocket,\u201d said Foston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foston\n explained what work he has to do to get himself considered for the \nroster coming the teams training camp in August in Halifax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI need to work on my conditioning, and just little individual things on the ice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said hockey has come full circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen\n I was younger I watched all the Mooseheads games and dreamt of playing \nfor them,\u201d said Foston. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m drafted by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe works just starting now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAVER BANK: Cole Foston will get to live out every young hockey fans dream who grew up watching the Halifax Mooseheads. Foston, a Lockview High student who hails from Beaver Bank, was the Memorial Cup runner ups first pick in the 2019 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League draft, held June 8 in Quebec City. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[10,149,187,189,554],"class_list":["post-10445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-beaver-bank","tag-cole-foston","tag-halifax-mooseheads","tag-qmjhl","tag-qmjhl-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}