{"id":14734,"date":"2020-06-07T06:27:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14734"},"modified":"2020-06-07T06:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:27:22","slug":"sea-dogs-take-belnans-ramsay-in-fourth-round-of-qmjhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14734","title":{"rendered":"Sea Dogs take Belnan&#8217;s Ramsay in fourth round of QMJHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BELNAN: <\/strong>A highly touted defenceman from the Belnan area has been selected during the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League draft, held June 5-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duncan Ramsay, who suited for the Major Bantam Rangers in 2017-2018, was selected by the Saint John Sea Dogs with the 70<sup>th<\/sup> pick overall in the fourth round. He had been pegged by QMJHL Central Scouting at no. 24. The Rangers play out of the East Hants Sportsplex in Lantz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Ramsay had informed all teams interested he would likely be going the NCAA route, so that made him a risky pick and thus why his draft position fell. He was taken on the second day of the two-day virtual draft, held online only due to COVID19 restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;36&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramsay just finished off a great season with the Mount Academy Saints, a prep school team based in Charlottetown, P.E.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the U16 team he compiled a goal and 10 assists in 15 games during Canadian Sport School Hockey league East play. With the U18 team, he played in five games and had no points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In East Coast Elite League play U16 division, Ramsay had seven goals and 15 assists for 22 points in 16 games played with the Saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;9&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sea Dogs told John Moore (@rinkrat on twitter) why they chose to select Ramsay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We loved what we saw from him. A big bodied D-man who thinks the game well. Lots of potential and 6&#8217;3,\u201d said chief scout Anthony Stella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope to get a few comments from Duncan on being drafted in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELNAN: A highly touted defenceman from the Belnan area has been selected during the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League draft, held June 5-6. Duncan Ramsay, who suited for the Major Bantam Rangers in 2017-2018, was selected by the Saint John Sea Dogs with the 70th pick overall in the fourth round. He had been pegged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,21],"tags":[1139,1140,189,1141],"class_list":["post-14734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-sports","tag-belnan","tag-duncan-ramsay","tag-qmjhl","tag-saint-john-sea-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734","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=14734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/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=14734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}