Kerby
Rychel
Kerby Rychel
Most of us know the story by now. Windsor was going to take Kerby Rychel in the 2nd round of the OHL draft but a day or two before the draft they added some picks by moving back in the 1st round. Barrie which was in the middle of a tension filled OHL championship series saw this as Windsor adding draft picks while still being able to get a border line 1st round talent later in the draft. Barrie decided to take Rychel with the final pick in the 1st round.
Rychel made it clear he would never commit to the Colts. Barrie then traded Rychel to the Steelheads who then moved him to Windsor at the deadline. Rychel would go on to have a fantastic OHL career which included which included a pair of 40 goal seasons, an OHL title and multiple times putting on a team Canada jersey.
He would finish his career with 271 points in 256 games. 122 of those points were goals. He would skate in 42 play off games and finish with 41 points in those contests as well as 7 in 4 memorial cup games with Guelph.
In all in his OHL career Kerby Rychel was traded for 10 2nds 2 3rd and 2 4ths and Brody Milne. A pair if 2nds and Nick Ebert came along with Rychel in separate trades but you could almost ice a team with the picks he was traded for.
Add it all up and it was quite the impressive OHL career for Rychel.
Compensatory Draft Pick
With the 22nd pick in the 2011 OHL Priority Selection (with 2 defected players the Colts comp pick was 22nd rather than 21st) the Barrie Colts selected Alexander Yuill. Yuill was the 2nd of 2 defencemen that the Colts would take in the 1st round. You may have heard of the other Aaron Ekblad. Yuill was the OMHA player of the year his minor midget season. He would go to play 2.5 seasons with the Colts before being dealt to the Belleville Bulls at the trade deadline of his 18 year old season.
Yuill played in 140 games for the Colts over his 2.5 seasons and put up solid numbers for a young defenceman on a team coming off the worst record in the league. He would add 20 points in those 140 games and would have a positive plus/minus every year he suited up for the Colts.
At the 2014 deadline Yuill was moved to the Bulls forward Garret Hooey and a 2016 5th round pick.
Hooey would play 106 games for the Colts and wear an "A" on his sweater his OA season. In those 106 games he would add 66 points and a further 12 in 20 playoff games. That 5th round pick in 2016 was used to select Luke Bignell who after a year in the GOJHL with the Kitchener Dutchmen he would spend the 2017-18 season with the Colts where he would pick up 12 points in 56 games during his rookie campaign.
Trade Compensation
The Majors sent Barrie 3 2nd round draft picks for the rights to Kerby Rychel. The 2nds were in each of the next 2 drafts, 2011, 2012 and a 3rd in 2014. Of course no matter how much research I did I could not confirm if the draft picks belonged to any team other that Mississauga.
Quickly after dealing Rychel to Mississauga the Colts made a second deal. Sending a 2nd (which turned out to be Mississauga's) in 2011 to Sudbury for a former 3rd round pick who had been playing in the OJHL under newly hired Colts head coach Dale Hawerchuck. That forward was Steven Beyers.
Beyers would play his 18,19 and 20 year old seasons for Barrie and turned out to be fantastic value for a traded 2nd round pick. He would finish his OHL career with 185 points in 188 games and was over a point per game as an OA. He helped take the Colts from last place to the OHL finals in 3 years and finished his playoff career with 27 points in 29 games.
Mississauga's 2nd in 2012 ended up being used by Plymouth to select Alex Peters. It was sent to London as part of the Andrea Athanasiou trade.
As for the 3rd in 2014 that ended up being used by Erie to select Shaun Bily
In the end selecting a player who was not going to report turned out fantastic for Barrie. No matter who they selected it wasn't going to help them avoid a last place finish that season and sure wasn't going to have an impact that year that Steven Beyers did who they acquired for one of their draft picks. Both Beyers and Yuill played on their OHL finals team. Their 2012 2nd was the only 2nd sent to London in the Athanasiou trade. As for Mississauga? Well who knows what deals they made with Windsor. They lost the OHL finals but they had some lean years after.
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