SHERBROOKE | Patrick Roy will wait before making known his intentions regarding his future with the Remparts.
• Read also: QMJHL: Drafted first overall by the Moncton Wildcats, Caleb Desnoyers continues the family tradition
• Read also: LHJMQ: the Saguenéens are preparing a very bright future
“Yes I savored my day, but I will leave it the same for the moment, told the head coach and general manager of the Remparts. Rest is coming and the pressure will drop. You won’t see me with my face as red as our sweater. I’m going to Scotland with Jacques (Tanguay) on June 18.
Presumably he will announce his decision a few days before his vacation in Europe.
As for the draft, Roy was satisfied with the harvest. “After two years of battling for top honours, we are starting the wheel again, he illustrated. The mission today was to redo our bank of choice for the next two years. It looked like the Shawinigan draft in 2018 when I came back.
“This year’s draft is going to give us some depth and hopefully some will sneak in to take on a bigger role,” Roy said. We want continuity and that goes through the repechage. Despite our success over the past two years and our Memorial Cup title, I’m pretty proud of the number of picks we have.”
The Remparts concluded several transactions in addition to the one with the Voltigeurs. Two with the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, one with the Cape Breton Eagles, the Gatineau Olympiques, the Val-d’Or Foreurs and the Moncton Wildcats
“I have fun moving choices, but the credit goes to the recruiters who do a very good job, he summarized. We have to take our pill to come back stronger in the next few years.
The Remparts liked Nathan Quinn enough to beat their first selection. “We like him a lot and we felt the need to move forward, explained Roy. He has a very good view of the game.”
All but one of the trades involved only draft picks. The Remparts traded their 7th round pick to the Cataractes in return for 18-year-old forward Charles-Olivier Villeneuve, whose brother Xavier was a 1st round pick (7th) by the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.