They're expected to be sellers at this year's trade deadline, but on Monday evening the Hamilton Bulldogs were buying.

The OHL club acquired Czech import Jan Jenik from the Flint Firebirds in exchange for a pair of draft picks - a fourth-round pick in 2020 and a fifth-round pick in 2024, which is conditional on the 18-year-old playing in Hamilton next season.

A six-foot-one, 165-pound forward, Jenik started the season at home in the Czech Republic before representing his country at this year's world junior championship, where he was named player of the game against Canada.

Bulldogs president and general manager Steve Staios said he has a guarantee that Jenik, the sixth-overall pick in the CHL import draft last June, will report to Hamilton. He is expected to be introduced to the team at practice Tuesday.

Jenik, an Arizona Coyotes prospect who was selected in the third round, 65th overall, at this year's NHL draft, brings size and skill. Staios also said he likes that the left-shot can play both centre, his natural position, or on the wing.

This isn't the first trade the Bulldogs have made in the lead up to the deadline - they also sent captain MacKenzie Entwistle to the Guelph Storm on Saturday - and it likely won't be their last. The cut-off to move overage players is Wednesday, and Thursday for everyone else.

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