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"It was a special moment," he said of being selected at the Bell Centre by his hometown team. "I didn't know what to expect, and it was an exciting night. But cheap Colts jersey being drafted in your hometown put it over the top."

Leblanc is the first Quebec-born player selected by the Canadiens in the first round since 1988. While there's great pressure surrounding anything related to Canadiens hockey, Leblanc -- even at a Jacksonville Jaguars jerseys young age -- already gets the bigger picture.

"It's a dream come true," he said, referring to being drafted by his favorite boyhood team. "But now it's back to work. I still have to make the team first."

Leblanc is poised to turn heads at both the World Juniors development camp and the main training camp with the Canadiens in September, and his experiences at Jaguars jerseys Harvard under coach Ted Donato will help. "[Donato] was a great coach," Leblanc said. "He taught me to how to read defenses more and just helped my overall game."

Being drafted, playing a season at Harvard and now scrimmaging with Jacksonville Jaguars jersey Canada's next wave of talented players has already rubbed off on Leblanc. During last year's Stanley Cup Playoffs, Leblanc admitted to watching the occasional Habs game in what he called "the best building in the NHL."

But bias notwithstanding, the game he grew up playing had a different feel to it, given his new place as an NHL prospect. "You look at the game differently," he said. "You're seeing certain players and Jaguars jersey you know that eventually they might be your teammates. It's a great feeling." One that he looks forward to sharing for many years in hockey's Mecca -- the place he also just so happens to call home.