By Joel van der Veen

DAVIDSON — Answering a cell phone call in the middle of class is usually frowned upon at Davidson School.

But on the day of the WHL bantam draft, teachers were willing to make an exception for Blake Allan.

The 15-year-old took a call on May 5 from his agent, Michael Kaye, who told him he’d been drafted by the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League.

“It was pretty good,” said Blake, the oldest child of Ken and Kelly Allan of Davidson.

Blake, a left wing who played this past season with the Humboldt Bantam AA Broncos, was a third-round draft pick for Kootenay, coming 56th overall.

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