The 2023-24 hockey season ended with a bang for Belleville’s Trevor Hoskin.
This off-season is shaping up pretty nicely as well.
The former Quinte Red Devil and Cobourg Cougar was selected in the fourth round of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft on Saturday.
“I kind of knew throughout the playoffs this year that I could be picked. There was a lot of talk with my agent saying I could be picked. In the last couple of weeks it was clear if I was going to go, it was going to be in the fourth to seventh round.”
He was selected by the Calgary Flames 106th overall and says all the focus and effort makes it worth every penny.
“All those times when you get up and you don’t want to, or you’re tired or you don’t want to go to the gym. Just pushing through those moments and thinking about the bigger picture throughout them. Now to see my name come up on the draft list, it was all worth it.”
Hoskin is slated to attend Niagara University this coming fall and he says that is still his intention.
This past season Hoskin was the OJHL Most Valuable Player and the Canadian Junior Hockey League Top Forward. He also won a silver medal with Team Canada East at the World Junior A Challenge, and was the Tournament MVP.
We asked the 20-year-old what he would say to his 10-year-old self.
“He’d be proud, I know that. It wasn’t always easy. As a kid you always dream of a moment like this. To have it happen now is incredible. To see my name beside an NHL team and here we are ten years later, it’s right in front of me.”
Trevor Hoskin of Team OJHL Hawerchuk celebrates the goal during the second period at the Eastern Canada Cup Final (Photo by Tim Bates / OJHL Images)
