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Battalion swing four player trade with the Guelph Storm

The North Bay Battalion has acquired forwards Luke Burghardt and Luke Moncada in a trade with the Guelph Storm. The Battalion sent right winger Zach Poirier, defenceman Mark Shoemaker and a conditional third-round pick in the 2021 OHL Priority Selection to Guelph. The pick reverts to North Bay if Shoemaker plays as an overager in 2017-18.

Burghardt, a 19-year-old resident of Bowmanville, had nine goals and 11 assists for 20 points in 53 games last season. Burghardt has 27 goals and 31 assists for 58 points in 169 OHL games, to go along with 95 penalty minutes. Moncada, 17, had five assists in 37 games in his rookie season with the Storm. He was a third-round selection in 2016 from the Toronto Red Wings minor midgets. Head Coach Stan Butler says in the case of Burghardt, they’re giving a player a chance to play who had 17 goals as a 17-year-old, and they hope he can get back there. Butler says in Moncada’s case, he’s a player they were after in the Priority Selection, so they’ve got another good young player.

Poirier, 19, was the Battalion’s first-round pick in the 2014 OHL Priority Selection from the Upper Canada Cyclones minor midgets. In 183 games over three seasons with the Troops he scored 38 goals and added 25 assists for 63 points. He had 15 goals and 13 assists for 28 points in 64 games last season. Shoemaker had five goals and 29 assists for 34 points in 174 games with North Bay after being selected in the 11th round in 2013 from the Mississauga Reps minor midgets. A sixth-round pick by the San Jose Sharks in the 2016 National Hockey League Draft, he registered 16 assists in 68 games last season.

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