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But it may have been this disadvantage that allowed him to join his favorite team as Leblanc had initially been projected to be a top ten pick, which meant that Montreal wouldn’t have been able to sign him.
It is this kind of tenacity that caught the eyes of the Montreal Canadiens, who picked him as their top draft pick, making him the first Quebec native to be selected first by the Canadiens in 21 years. Leblanc was 18th overall.
Leblanc’s talents earned him a reputation in the province early on.
“I always heard growing up about Louis Leblanc, that he’s going to be a good player,” said junior Mike Biega, a Montreal native. “I’d watch [my brother] Danny play against him and people would always...
Members of the media were coming up to me asking for my opinion on the precipitous drop of Akpan’s draft stock. I did my best to reason that his MLS combine performance (underwhelming by most accounts) had hurt him, but surely four years of dominance (including a...