BATHURST, N.B.: Riley Kidney is going to get the opportunity to battle for a QMJHL championship, and possibly a Memorial Cup.
The Enfield product was dealt by his Acadie-Bathurst Titan hours before the QMJHL Trade Deadline on Jan. 6 to the Gatineau Olympiques.
The Olympiques are one of the QMJHL’s heavy favourites to contend for the QMJHL championship.
In return for Kidney, a Montreal Canadiens prospect, the Titan receive a first round 2025 draft pick; Robert “Bobby” Orr, and Donovan Arseneault.
Bathurst is in a rebuild mode and the trade of Kidney comes a couple days after they dealt Jacob Melanson, a Seattle Kraken prospect, away to Sherbrooke Phoenix.
This season Kidney had amassed 14 goals and 45 points in 31 games with the Titan. He also has 28 penalty minutes.
