BLOOMINGTON - Marty Standish, Corey Rutt and Henry Kuster, who played for the Bloomington PrairieThunder last season, were taken in the International Hockey League expansion draft Thursday.

Standish and Kuster were drafted by Quad City, while Rutt went to Dayton. Standish was selected in the first round as the No. 2 pick, while Rutt went in the third round and Kuster in the seventh. Dayton and Quad City will join the IHL next season.

Bloomington, Muskegon, Fort Wayne, Flint and Port Huron each were allowed to protect 13 players and one goalie. Teams could lose a maximum of three players.

Also Thursday, the Thunder obtained the rights to three former Kalamazoo players - forward Bryan Jurynec, defenseman Martin Ondrej and left wing Anthony Battaglia. Kalamazoo's players became available through a dispersal draft after it pulled out of the IHL in June to join the ECHL.

Battaglia was fourth in scoring last season for Kalamazoo with 53 points (20 goals, 33 assists) and finished with a plus-3 rating in 61 games.