Alliston’s Jacob Holmes has been chosen to play for Team Canada at the 2019 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
The tournament goes November 2-9 in Medicine Hat, Alta., and Swift Current, Sask.
Holmes is currently playing his rookie season with the Soo Greyhounds of the OHL.
The defenceman, picked in the first round of the OHL draft, will play for one of 3 teams of Canadian players
More than 1,800 NHL draft picks have suited up since the inception of the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in 1986, including 14 first-overall draft picks since 2001.
