At 2:17 PM -0500 7/10/96, MR JAY M CROCKETT wrote:
> Two reasons why Tom Poti wasn't drafted until the third round was
> because he:
> 1. Put up his numbers against fairly weak competition.
> 2. He didn't show up to play every night, despite his 73 points (14 G,
>  59 A) in 28 GP.
>
> I understand that these were two of the reasons that Tom Poti wasn't
> drafted until the third round by the Edmonton Oilers.
 
I'm not sure what 1) is supposed to mean.  Poti played for Cushing Academy
in the toughest high school hockey league in the US, the New England Prep
Division 1.  That's always seemed like pretty good competition to me.
 
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