John Haeussler listed the stats for the first three years of
Michigan's class of 1997 and asked if any other classes from
other schools can be compared to it:
 
> NO NAME                  POS  YR   GP    G    A  PTS  PIM  +/-
>  9 Brendan Morrison       C   JR  112   71  125  196  107   66
> 19 Jason Botterill        LW  JR  108   67   58  125  354   48
> 18 John Madden            F   JR  118   54   63  117   67   70
> 28 Warren Luhning         RW  JR  114   50   62  112  286   70
> 15 Mike Legg              F   JR  118   39   61  100   66   51
>  6 Harold Schock          D   JR  121   10   50   60  152   96
> 27 Blake Sloan            D   JR  118   10   43   53  163   81
>  4 Chris Frescoln         D   JR   63    2   17   19  106   45
>  5 Peter Bourke           D   JR   55    2   11   13   28   33
 
The following is RPI's Class of 1986 (the class that entered in
1982) with statistics for their first three years.  It does not
include Jeff Prendergast who graduated with that class although he
entered a year earlier.  It also does not include transfers John
Tiano (from BU who played his Junior and Senior years with this
class) and Jeff Whiteside (from NMU who played sporadically
and probably was considered as a member of this class also).
(Sources: RPI 85-86 media guide for Carter, Jooris, and Dark
and the 85-86 Sporting News Hockey Register for the others.)  I do
not think that RPI kept +/- stats at the time or at least I could
not find them.
 
  NO NAME                  POS  YR   GP    G    A  PTS  PIM
  12 Adam Oates             C   JR   98   66  150  216   52
  15 John Carter            LW  JR  104   94   90  184  137
   9 George Servinis        LW  JR   75   74   67  141   80
   7 Mark Jooris            RW  JR   86   50   73  123   34
  22 Mike Dark              D   JR  103   12   54   66  190
  11 Kraig Nienhuis         F   JR   95   30   33   63  115
 
     totals                         561  326  467  793  608
 
Clearly, this class did not have the depth that Michigan's junior
class has (no RPI class ever does) but considering the lesser
amount of games played, the stats are at least as good.  (One could
debate the quality of competition, especially after their Sophomore
season when the ECAC broke up into the ECAC and HEA.)  Note that
Servinis missed most of his Sophomore season while trying out for
the Canadian Olympic team.  He was cut, despite being the second
leading scorer in the pre-Olympic tour, after an injury and
returned to RPI.
 
Note also that three of the above did not return for their senior
season (Oates, Servinis, and Nienhuis).  Interestingly, five of
these six played at least a couple of games in the NHL, all except
for Jooris who played for Canada's National team and for a short time
in the AHL after leaving RPI.
 
Ralph Baer
RPI  '68,  '70,  '74
 
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