The wait was apparently worth it for Lisbon’s Greg Moore.

After sitting through the first three rounds of the NHL entry draft on Saturday without hearing his name called, Moore returned to the arena on Sunday to much better news.

With the 147th overall selection, their fifth of the draft, the Calgary Flames selected the 6-foot-1-inch Lisbon native, adding him to a list of rugged forwards that seemed to be their main target during the draft.

“It’s important to start working on our identity and fill some needs down the road,” said Flames General Manager and head coach Darryl Sutter in an interview posted on the team’s Web site Sunday. “I’m happy with the kids we got at the top, and as we went down we filled our needs.”

Moore is the kind of player that Sutter said he was looking for. As a right wing at the University of Maine last season, Moore was used heavily on the power play, mostly to stand in front of the net and act as a screen. His size enabled him to muscle his way into the slot down low. Because of his tenacity, Moore also saw time on the penalty kill. Of the nine goals he scored last season, four came on the power play and one while a man down.

“I’m definitely a power forward,” said Moore in an interview published on the Flames’ Web site. “Go wide and then go hard to the net, drive the net and create havoc for the goalie.”

Head scout Todd Button called Moore a “hard-nosed player,” and the Flames can look forward to Moore joining their team following the completion of his four years at Maine. Moore has said repeatedly that he plans to get his degree before turning pro.

Familiar company

Though Moore never played against him, he will be joining former Hockey East All-Star Chris Drury in Calgary. The Colorado Avalanche traded the former Boston University star to Calgary last season.

Current Hockey East members also drafted on Sunday included James Pemberton of Providence College (No. 124) and Brian O’Hanley of Boston College (No. 267).

QMJHL in the draft

National Hockey League teams selected several more members of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League on Sunday, but Richard Stehlik remains the lone draftee from the Lewiston Maineiacs.

In all, 38 of the 292 draftees over the weekend came from the QMJHL, equal to 13 percent of all of those drafted. That number is the highest total for the league since 1998, when 41 of 258 drafted players came from the Quebec league.

Since 1970, just over 10 percent of the league’s players have been drafted from the QMJHL. Since 1998, the league had averaged seven to eight percent of the draftees each year.