On his first trip north, Jeff Carter had no real sense of where he was going.

When he was selected third overall by the Soo Greyhounds in 2001, he knew only what every young hockey player from southern Ontario knew about Sault Ste. Marie: it was far, it was cold, and it was definitely not London.

“I didn’t know anything about the Sault,” Carter told The Sault Star. “It was the furthest away from home that I could possibly get.”

That uncertainty was familiar to someone who knew the feeling firsthand.

Craig Hartsburg, who stepped in as general manager and head coach ahead of the 2001 OHL draft, had charted the same path 26 years earlier.

He was also taken with the No. 3 pick by the Greyhounds. And like Carter, Hartsburg was from southern Ontario — Stratford, not London, but with the sam

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