Colin Kennedy … 2nd overall
Wow! Sault Ste. Marie product Colin Kennedy has become a first round pick in the 2026 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. A hard working, productive forward with good speed, Kennedy was taken with the second pick of the first round by the Erie Otters.
Kennedy spent the past two seasons developing into a high performance skater with the Detroit Little Caesars AAA program. In going to Erie, Kennedy heads to an Otters’ team that has his uncle, Chris Hartsburg, on staff as its skills development coach.
Kennedy’s bloodlines also include his dad, Craig Kennedy, who played five full seasons in the OHL with the Windsor Spitfires as a forward who was taken in the second round of the 1999 OHL priority selections draft. He later captained the Spitfires.
Not only that, young Kennedy’s maternal grand father is Craig Hartsburg, who during his playing days as a world class defenseman was a first round OHL pick to the Soo Greyhounds in 1975 and a first round National Hockey League pick to the Minnesota North Stars in 1979 — while going on to be the captain of both teams.
