Paulette writes:
>Round 8
>
>191. Pierre-Claude Drouin, Cornell, LW
>206. Bill Holowatiak, Cornell, D
>Round 10
>
>253. Michael Sancimino, Cornell, C
>Oddly enough the best Cornell player of the three, Sancimino, has the lowest
> ranking. This is probably due to the fact that he only played 11 games
>because of mono.
That probably didn't help, although the scouts presumably have some idea of
Mike's performance in Junior A before coming to Cornell. I'd agree that
Sancimino is the best of those three right now -- but in looking at "poten-
tial", which supposedly is what the Scouting Bureau is doing, I'd have to
give the sizeable edge to P.C. Drouin. Whether he'll ever realize that
potential is a whole other question...
Greg writes:
>It will be good to see a few more Cornellians being
>drafted, and these are 3 of the 5 I would have
>expected. I'm a little surprised that Bandurski was
>neither in last year's draft nor projected for this
>year. And I'm shocked that Chartrand isn't - so
>much so that I wonder whether he's old enough
>yet.
Chartrand turned 18 in December (three days before Bill Holowatiuk, as a
matter of fact), so age isn't a problem. Since Brad doesn't have the game-
busting talent of, say, Paul Kariya, I'll wager that the NHL types are
thinking only one thing about him: 5-10, 170 pounds. That's widely con-
sidered too small to survive in the pros. (Paging Theo Fleury, paging Pavel
Bure) P.C. and Mike, in contrast, are both 6-1 or so. If Brad does
continue his hockey career after Cornell, he'll probably follow in the
footsteps of another 5-10, 170-pound former Big Red scoring demon (Doug
Derraugh) and go play in Europe. As far as Bando is concerned, I suspect
his tendency to drop down whenever an opponent shoots the puck, as well as
his skate-all-the-hell-over-the-defensive-zone style of play, works against
him in the scouts' minds.
--
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Cornell '86 and probably '94
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