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Prince Albert Daily Herald
Photo Courtesy of Keith Hershmiller/WHL Prince Albert Raiders blueliner Nolan Allan and Winnipeg Ice forward Rhys Raeside battle for the puck at the Brandt Centre in Regina earlier this season.
For the second year in a row, the Prince Albert Raiders have had a player selected in the opening round of the NHL Draft.
With the final pick of Friday’s first round, the Chicago Blackhawks used the 32nd selection to take blueliner Nolan Allan.
The 18-year-old from Davidson had been projected by many to be picked between the late second round and early fourth round of Saturday’s portion of the draft.
Winnipeg Free Press
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
Twenty-five games into the Swift Current Broncos’ 1993-94 season, Darren McLean had reached his breaking point.
Days earlier, star forward Todd Holt had revealed a litany of horrors that he endured for years at the hands of their coach, Graham James.
The two players, who had been friends since playing minor hockey together in Estevan, Sask., were rooming together for the first time on a Broncos road trip.
About this series
Graham James was last seen in a courtroom in the summer of 2015.
Appearing via video link from a Quebec prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach pleaded guilty in a Swift Current courtroom to sexual assault on one of his players during the early 1990s, and was sentenced to two additional years behind bars.