At 12:24 PM 5/3/97 -0700, John Edwards wrote:
>I read something interesting in yesterday's Vancouver Province. In an
>article about the South Surrey Eagles, they said that Scott Gomez (who
>had previously signed with CC) is considering playing Major Junior in
>Tri-Cities. He said in the article that it was about 50-50.
 
There has been some speculation here that his SAT scores are not up
to par.
 
His Major Junior (WHL) rights recently bounced back to the Tri-City
Americans when the team that previously had his rights (Spokane
Chiefs) released him from their protected list.  (Attached is a
message to the WHL list that explains the situation.)
 
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>The WHL's executive committee upheld Dev Dley's decision
>to award the WHL rights to BCJHL standout Scott Gomez to
>the Tri-City Americans.
>
>According to an article by Eric Degerman of the Tri-City
>Herald, the Americans originally took Gomez in the '95
>bantam draft in the fifth round.  Because he wasn't
>taken in the first three rounds and didn't play at least
>36 games for the club they had to return him to the
>bantam draft pool.  In 1996, the Chiefs drafted Gomez
>in the 9th round.  Again the Alaskan did not play for
>the WHL team and the Chiefs on Jan 29th, soon after
>their 36th game dropped Gomez on the assumption that
>he would go back into the bantam draft for a third
>time.  This was not the case however as the Americans'
>added the now midget age player to their protected
>list on Feb. 12th.  After Dley's decision to award
>Gomez's rights to the Americans, the Chiefs appealed
>the decision to the WHL executive committee.  On
>Wednesday morning, Tri-Cities GM Bob Brown was
>notified that the executive committee had held up
>Dley's decision.
>
>This past season with the South Surrey Eagles, Gomez
>established himself as the BCJHL's premier scorer with
>48 goals and 76 assists in the 60 game regular season.
>
>It looked as if Gomez was headed the NCAA route though
>as he had verbally committed to Colorado College at the
>start of the season.  Things might be changing though
>as the day Brown added him to the Americans' protected
>list, Gomez failed his SAT exam.  Brown says he hopes
>to have Gomez sign a standard WHL contract in June.
>
>If he does end up signing with the Americans, the
>Chiefs' slip up might have given the Ams a nice late
>Christmas present.
 
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