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Deadline Deals on Defence

January 10, 2020 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
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NORTH BAY, Ont. - The North Bay Battalion has dealt import Martin Has to the Guelph Storm and acquired Avery Winslow from the London Knights in a pair of trades featuring defencemen, the Ontario Hockey League club announced Friday before the noon trade deadline.

The Battalion sent London two OHL Priority Selection picks, a third-round choice in 2023 and a fifth-rounder in 2024, for rookie Winslow, 17. A left shot who stands five-foot-11 and weighs 179 pounds, he has one goal and three assists for four points with six penalty minutes in 28 games.

Has, North Bay's first-round pick in the Canadian Hockey League Import Draft last June, went to Guelph for three conditional OHL Priority Selection picks, a third-rounder in each of 2022 and 2023 and a 15th-rounder in 2022.

Has, a right shot who played for his native Czech Republic in the World Junior Championship that ended last Sunday, skated with the Battalion for the first time in a 6-0 home-ice loss Thursday night to the Mississauga Steelheads.

The 18-year-old, who stands six-foot-four and weighs 187 pounds, started the season with Tappara Tampere of the Finnish Elite League after being a fifth-round choice of the Washington Capitals in the 2019 National Hockey League Draft.

London tabbed Winslow, a resident of St. Pete Beach, Fla., in the fifth round of the 2018 OHL Priority Selection from the Notre Dame Hounds midgets of Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a private school in Wilcox, Sask. He played last season for the Wenatchee Wild of the junior A British Columbia Hockey League.

"Avery is a young defenceman who's extremely mobile and will do a lot of things for our team moving forward," said Battalion general manager Adam Dennis. "He uses his speed to get up the ice and takes pride in his defending.

"We look forward to having him join our talented group of young players."

It wasn't known whether Winslow would be in the lineup when the Battalion visited the Sudbury Wolves at 7:05 p.m. Friday.

North Bay also completed a trade Thursday, sending left winger and captain Brad Chenier to Sudbury for fellow overager Shane Bulitka, a centre who was Sudbury's captain, and two OHL Priority Selection picks, a third-rounder in 2023 and a conditional eighth-rounder in 2022.

The overage trade deadline passed at noon Thursday.

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