Because the choices began to unfold on the first in-person OHL Precedence Choice since 2000, the Beaulieu household started to surprise if Ryan Beaulieu would possibly land with the staff that his dad received the Memorial Cup with in 2005.
At choose quantity 14, they came upon.
Knights normal supervisor Mark Hunter stepped to the rostrum in Kingston, Ont., and made defenceman Ryan Beaulieu London’s first choice in 2026.
“By the eighth or ninth choose I began to surprise if it would occur,” Ryan admitted. ” I began to consider how nice it will be to have the ability to keep at dwelling and play for Mark and Dale Hunter and observe in my dad’s footsteps.”
Josh Beaulieu was the Knights second spherical choose in 2003 and later a fifth spherical choice of the Philadelphia Flyers.
“I’m a giant believer in every part occurring for a cause,” stated Josh. “We’re very grateful and now a brand new journey begins for him and for our household and we’re very excited.”
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Josh Beaulieu can also be one in all a handful of London Knights gamers to have scored 5 objectives in a single sport.
“That’s his favorite story,” Ryan stated, laughing. “Me and my dad have an incredible relationship. He has the expertise and he is aware of what it takes to play for the Knights.”
Ryan spent this previous season taking part in for one in all Josh’s Group of the Century teammates in Danny Syvret with the U16 AAA London Jr. Knights. He was one of many prime defenders within the Alliance and was named to the All OHL Cup staff after serving to the Jr. Knights to the ultimate 4 of the highest U16 match.
Ryan was extremely complimentary of what Syret was capable of move on to him.
“He is aware of the sport, he is aware of what I have to do and he handed that alongside to all of us.”
A back-to-back Alliance champion who says he fashions his sport after Drew Doughty of the L.A. Kings, Ryan is taking the following step in his profession with the assistance and assist of individuals in his life who know what it means to put on the London Knights uniform.
The final time Mark Hunter made a primary spherical choose in the identical means he was calling the identify Rick Nash.
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