John H writes:
 
>>Patrick Fleming writes about Dave Taylor...
>>...since he is often looked to as the first collegian to really make it
>>big in the NHL.
 
>Most likely it's geographical bias, but I've never heard Taylor
>mentioned in this regard...always Red Berenson.  Red doesn't
>have the offensive numbers that Taylor does, but he was a star
>in many ways.
 
I can give two examples of collegians who "really made it big" in
the NHL before Taylor and Berenson:
 
1. Bill Masterton, Denver
2. Ken Dryden, Cornell
 
I'd say Dryden ranks a little higher in the "legend" category than
Masterton, but then the latter has an award named after him.
 
Greg