Coming into this season, yours truly couldn’t wait to see how the Ontario Hockey League’s trade deadline would unfold and how the London Knights and the Windsor Spitfires would load up for the Western Conference Championship and the OHL Championship.
Well, they didn’t disappoint, but you must look past the two franchises and at the Sault St Marie Greyhounds and the Erie Otters. This is turning out to be a four-way battle that, if you’re a hockey fan, can expect the best, most hard fought hockey we’ve seen in a long time.
Let the fun begin!
The Otters began it all by adding Warren Foegele from the Kingston Frontenacs. They followed that up with Anthony Cirelli from the Oshawa Generals and Cameron Lizotte from the Barrie Colts
The week leading up to trade deadline day saw the OHL’s top team, the Greyhounds add blueliner Noah Carroll from the Guelph Storm. It’s about all the Greyhounds needed to do – solidify their back end.
Not to be outdone, the Knights added Dante Salituro from the Ottawa 67’s, Mitchell Vande Sompel from the Oshawa Generals and Mitchell Stephens from the Saginaw Spirit.
The Spitfires hosts of the Memorial Cup, wanted to go in as Champions and brought in Jeremy Bracco From the Kitchener Rangers, Daniel Robertson from the Oshawa Generals and Adam Laishram from the Hamilton Bulldogs.
I like the Greyhounds as a team and Carroll should help them. But you can’t count out the London Knights with the additions they’ve made. The Otters are improved with Cirelli and the Spitfires….
Ah heck, it’s too close to call. Let’s all watch and enjoy.
Here are the trades for the week leading up to and including trade deadline.
Picks with an asterisk (*) are conditional picks. You can click on the team for official team releases (where available)
| Date | Team | Trades | To | For: |
| 02- Jan | Kingston | Warren Foegele | Erie | Brett Neumann |
| 3rd round pick 2021 | ||||
| 03-Jan | Niagara | Cal Davis | Kingston | 5th round pick 2019 |
| 06-Jan | North Bay | Maurizio Colella | Flint | 5th round pick 2019 (MISS) |
| 06-Jan | Oshawa | Stephen Templeton | North Bay | 10th round pick 2017 |
| 06-Jan | Sault Ste Marie | Liam Hawel | Guelph | Noah Carroll |
| 3rd round pick 2021 | 3rd round pick 2017 (SAG) | |||
| 2nd round pick 2020 | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2020* | ||||
| 07-Jan | Ottawa | Drake Rymsha | Sarnia | 4th round pick 2017 |
| 2nd round pick 2018 | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2019 (PBO) | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2020 (WSR) | ||||
| 09-Jan | Kitchener | Jacob Cascagnette | Mississauga | 3rd round pick 2020 |
| 4th round pick 2020* | ||||
| 09-Jan | Oshawa | Anthony Cirelli | Erie | Allan McShane |
| 4th round pick 2018 | ||||
| 2 round pick 2022 | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2023 | ||||
| 6th round pick 2020* | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2024* | ||||
| 09-Jan | North Bay | Stephen Templeton | Hamilton | Jesse Saban |
| 5th round pick 2017 | 10th round pick 2017 (KGN) | |||
| 6th round pick 2019* | ||||
| 09-Jan | Owen Sound | Justin Brack | Niagara | 11th round pick 2017 |
| 09-Jan | Barrie | Cordell James | Owen Sound | 4th round pick 2018 (SSM) |
| 09-Jan | London | Chris Martenet | Ottawa | Dante Salituro |
| 3rd round pick 2018 | 8th round pick 2021 | |||
| 2nd round pick 2021 | ||||
| 15th round pick 2021 | ||||
| 09-Jan | Oshawa | Mitchell Vande Sompel | London | Ian Blacker |
| 2nd round pick 2017 | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2018 | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2019 (SBY) | ||||
| 3rd round pick 20124* | ||||
| 09-Jan | Saginaw | Mitchell Stephens | London | 3rd round pick 2017 |
| 2nd round pick 2018 (OTT) | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2018 (KGN) | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2019 (OS) | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2019 (SBY) | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2020 (SBY) | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2021* | ||||
| 09-Jan | Niagara | Christopher Paquette | Peterborough | Nate McDonald |
| 4th round pick 2018* | 2nd round pick 2017 | |||
| 2nd round pick 2018 | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2020 (SSM) | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2021 | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2022 | ||||
| 09-Jan | Peterborough | C.J. Clarke | Flint | 2nd round pick 2018 (GUE) |
| 3rd round pick 2018 (NIA) | ||||
| 09-Jan | Kitchener | Jeremy Bracco | Windsor | Andrew Burns |
| 8th round pick 2017 | Cole Carter | |||
| 13th round pick 2018 | 2nd round pick 2023 | |||
| 2nd round pick 2024 | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2025* | ||||
| 09-Jan | Barrie | Cameron Lizotte | Erie | 10th round pick 2017 (SSM) |
| 5th round pick 2018 | ||||
| 3rdround pick 2022 | ||||
| 10-Jan | Hamilton | Trent Fox | Mississauga | 5th round pick 2017 (KGN) |
| 4th round pick 2019 | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2020 (BAR) | ||||
| 10-Jan | Kingston | Zack Dorval | Ottawa | 4th round pick 2017 (SAR) |
| 10-Jan | Kitchener | Mason Kohn | Oshawa | 2nd round pick 2019 (KGN) |
| 3rd round pick 2021 (OSH) | ||||
| 3rd round pick 2022* (KNG) | ||||
| 10-Jan | Saginaw | Kirill Maksimov | Niagara | Hayden Davis |
| 3rd round pick 2018 | ||||
| 2nd round pick 2019 (SAR) | ||||
| 10-Jan | Saginaw | Robert Proner | Barrie | 5th round pick 2018 (ER) |
| 10-Jan | Oshawa | Daniel Robertson | Windsor | 3rd round pick 2024 |
| 10-Jan | Mississauga | Jason Smith | Barrie | 7th round pick 2017 |
| 10-Jan | Guelph | Jake Bricknell | Peterborough | 15th round pick 2018 |
| 10-Jan | Sudbury | Ben Garagan | Hamilton | 5th round pick 2019 |
| 5th round pick 2022* | ||||
| 10-Jan | Hamilton | Adam Laishram | Windsor | 2nd round pick 2017 (NIA) |
| 2nd round pick 2017 (WSR) | 4th round pick 2017 (KGN) | |||
| 8th round pick 2017 | 2nd round pick 2026* |
