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The Vancouver Giants shouldn’t lack for background on their first pick in Thursday’s WHL bantam draft.

They nabbed forward Justin Sourdif, a Surrey native who played last season for the Delta Hockey Academy, third overall at the annual selection process in Calgary. Former Giants strength and conditioning coach Ian Gallagher is the director of the DHA, and former Giants assistant coach Matt Erhart was one of of the bench bosses of the bantam prep team that Sourdif played on there.

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The Giants have turned to DHA frequently for players. Winger Hunor Torzsok, 17, who nearly made the Giants out of training camp last fall as a free-agent list player and ended up playing four games with the club, is a DHA product, as is winger Aidan Barfoot, 15. Barfoot, a sixth-rounder from last May also drew rave reviews from the team brass after playing four games, too.

The Giants’ leading scorer and team most valuable player last season, winger Ty Ronning, 19, is another of various Giants past and current players with DHA ties, spending his 15-year-old campaign with their midget team after Vancouver picked him the first round of the 2012 bantam draft out of Burnaby Winter Club.