Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Peeters was drafted 135th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft after playing for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the WCHL .
Simplified: He would stay with the tigers for two years before being drafted . Peeters was drafted 135th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft after showing scouts that he had what it took to play at an NHL level .