Hockey / Pats add Fleming, Stadig from GOJHL

Pats add Fleming, Stadig from GOJHL

Date:  Source: OJHL Toronto Patriots

The Toronto Patriots have so far made two adds ahead of training camp for the 2018-19 Ontario Junior Hockey League campaign.

Toronto, who committed no fewer than 10 players to post-secondary institutions last season, has acquired forward Peter Fleming and defender Dirk Stadig, both from the Junior ‘B’ loup known as the Greater Toronto Hockey League.

Fleming, 17, scored 17 goals and 52 points in 65 contests as a 16-year-old for the St. Thomas Stars last year. A native of London, ONT, he was picked by the Barrie Colts in the sixth round of the 2017 Ontario Hockey League draft out of his hometown London Junior Knights minor midgets. The 6-foot-2 winger starred in the 2017 OHL Cup for the Knights, posting six points in six games at the prestigious minor midget event. Fleming furthered his reputation as a big-game player by scoring 13 points in 16 contests as part of the Stars’ run to the Western Conference final last year.

Stadig, 18, was the fourth leading point-scoring defenceman in the GOJHL regular season last year, scoring 13 goals and adding 37 assists in 49 games for his Ancaster Avalanche. The 5-foot-10 blue liner added six points in 11 post-season games for the Avalanche, who would go on to fall in the second round to a loaded St. Catherines Falcons team. A Toronto native, Stadig featured five times as a call-up in the OJHL for the Georgetown Raiders last season, and added two points in four games in the playoffs as the Raiders went on to lose in the Buckland Cup Finals to the Wellington Dukes. - Jamie Neugebauer

Stadig went undrafted by the OHL despite a strong 2016 OHL Cup with his Toronto Junior Canadiens minor midgets, where he scored five points in six games at the always tough event.

In other news, the Pats said goodbye this past week to forward Colton Kalezic, who will feature for the Tri-City Storm of the United States Hockey League next year, before looking to join the University of Northern Michigan in the NCAA in 2019-2020.