I'll add just a little to the nice comments Jason Roy and Frank
Mallgrave made.
 
The Jason Botterill file does include the following:
  -- 3 WJC gold medals (first Canadian to achieve this)
  -- an NCAA championship
  -- 1995-96 All-CCHA second team
  -- 1993-94 CCHA All-Rookie
  -- 1995-96 CCHA All-Academic
  -- 1994-95 CCHA All-Academic honorable mention
  -- 1994-95 Carl Isaacson Award (UM Academic Athlete)
 
Botterill will be a senior next season and he's still a teenager.
(He'll turn 20 in May.)  He was a first round selection of the Dallas
Stars in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.  He's a favorite to capture his
second UM Academic Athlete award, which will be announced
on Monday.  He has 67-58--125 and 354 PIM in 108 games at
Michigan.  He does have a reputation for having a short fuse and
spending time in the penalty box.  IMO, a lot of that results from
coming to the defense of smaller teammates...at 6-4/209, most of
his teammates are smaller...and running off at the mouth.  Jason's
penalty minutes would be just a little above the average with some
well placed duct tape. :-)
 
Seriously, he had 143 penalty minutes this season but only 39
penalties.  Unofficially, I have that as 29 minors, 3 majors and
7 DQ/misconducts.  He was DQ'ed twice for fisticuffs.  So, for
simplicity, let's say he had 63 PIM (29 minors, 1 major) for his
normal play, 30 PIM (2 majors, 2 DQs) for fighting and 50 PIM
(5 misconducts) for his extensive vocabulary. :-)
 
It's an overused description, but he is kind of a soft-spoken,
gentle giant off the ice.  I'm hoping and betting that he'll be back
for his senior season.
 
 
John H ([log in to unmask])
 
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