Patrick Foley of UNH was a medical redshirt last year after knee surgery.

> From: Craig Powers <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Craig Powers <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:21:12 -0600
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> Subject: Re: Redshirts (was Re: The next Wisconsin coach)
>
> Bill Fenwick wrote:
>>
>> Especially especially if Ben is a
>> "red-shirt" sophomore as opposed to a "true" sophomore (I don't know if he
>> is,
>> and I don't even know if red-shirting occurs in hockey with anywhere near the
>> frequency of football -- but if he's already red-shirted, transferring would
>> cost him a season of eligibility in addition to the year of not playing).
>
> As far as I know, red-shirts are relatively rare in hockey.  I can think
> of two players for Northeastern who have taken non-medical redshirts and
> stayed with the team.  One was Trevor Reschny (but I think that might
> have been a mid-year enrollment for eligibility reasons), and the other
> was Brian Tudrick.  This is since the 1993-94 season.  It's possible
> that there have been a couple of others that I missed, but I don't
> think so.
>
> The only other Northeastern redshirt I'm aware of is Arik Engbrecht's
> medical redshirt, which happened in what would have been his sophomore
> year.