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Sens select slender ‘tender Brassard, son of Ottawa sports reporter
The selection of hometown kid Cody Ceci at number fifteen wasn't the only pick the Ottawa Senators made that tore at the heartstrings a little. Gatineau product Francois Brassard, a goaltender of the Quebec Remparts, was drafted by the Sens Saturday afternoon with the 166th pick of the draft.
Francois' father Marc works as a sportswriter who covers the Senators for Le Droit newspaper in Ottawa and Gatineau area.
"He won't get involved too much," François said. He attended the draft and was one of the late draftees selected on Saturday. "He's going to do his job and they're probably going to send somebody else to do the games."
Will François give away any team secrets if he makes the NHL club one day? "I think he's not going to get too much info."
Marc knows full well that the odds of making it to the NHL are miniscule. Even the majority of those who get drafted don't even get a sniff. They become little more than trivia questions.
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"When you go to all the practices at seven in the morning, you don't do it because you think it's going to lead to this, you do it because you love your kids," said Marc.
"I did it for all three of my kids. It just happens that he has a little more talent and he's taken advantage of the opportunities he's had, the coaching and all that, and he's persevered.
"He's been through a lot and he's achieved a lot." [Sens Extra]
Francois was cut twice in bantam and twice in midget, as teams shied away from his size. Francois is tall and lanky and the jersey provided to him by the team after he was selected looked bulky on him, as if an undersized kid is fitting into his favourite team's hockey sweater on Christmas morning.
Ottawa were interested in him, however. He played 37 games and had a .905 save percentage with the Remparts this past season, and the Sens lucked out because Louis Dominigue, the team's starter, went off to go to the Canadian World Junior camp and again missed games due to a mid-season injury.
"He got to play a fair bit," said Senators scout Trent Mann. "You know when Patrick Roy picks you on his team there's something there, you know. And Patrick was very comfortable playing him this year obviously or he would have moved on."
Francois will be right in the thick of things next year. The first thing for him is getting bigger. Mann called him very slight with a smaller body. He was drafted 6'1" but just 154 lbs. Once he gets into an NHL training program, Mann says, he'll get bigger and better and start to fill in his frame.
Brassard is likely to get a shot at the starters job in Quebec city, but before then he'll have a chance to hang out and train with the Senators at their fall camp, under the watchful, professional eyes of his father.
