Eagles busy on trade front
SYDNEY — The Cape Breton Eagles will receive more than previously expected following an early season trade with the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.
On Oct. 16, the Eagles traded 20-year-old forward Mathias Laferrière to the Armada in exchange for a thirdround draft pick in 2021, a pick which originally belonged to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.
Since the trade, Laferrière has appeared in six games with the Armada and earlier this month attended the St. Louis Blues training camp, the team which gave him a three-year entry-level contract in 2019.
Last Thursday, Laferrière was reassigned by St. Louis to Blainville-Boisbriand for the remainder of the 2020-21 season.
Eagles general manager Jacques Carrière told the Cape Breton Post on Monday there's going to be more to the deal for Cape Breton.
"It's built up on games played and whether there's a Memorial Cup and all that kind of stuff,' said Carrière, who wouldn't say more about the deal.
The Montreal native appeared in 201 career games with the Eagles, posting 65 goals and 174 points.
Laferrière was originally drafted by the Armada in the first-round, No. 7 overall, at the 2016 Quebec Major Junior
Hockey League Entry Draft in Charlottetown. He was traded to Cape Breton in January 2017, along with a first-round pick and a second-round pick, in a deal for star forward Pierre-Luc Dubois.
For now, Laferrière and the Armada will return to action on Friday when they play the Rimouski Océanic at 8 p.m. AST at the Colisée Financière Sun Life as part of the league's protective environment series.