Actually, when I look at the preseason articles from the UMaine sports info people and by Chad Finn, a UMaine undergraduate who wrote for the Friends of Maine Hockey newsletter, the Ferraro twins got top billing, then Kariya.  Both articles referred to 2002-2003 as a "rebuilding year" for Maine, which had lost Hobey Baker winner Scott Pellerin, two-year captains Mike Barkely and Martin Robiltaille, and five other seniors to graduation, in addition to losing Jean Yves Roy a year ahead of schedule when he signed a contract with the New York Rangers.  

---- james acheson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
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> I see all sorts of talk about this recruit and that one (all the Yandle stuff)... and I never really paid much attention to that in the past  
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> I wonder ... what sort of hooplah was there over Paul Kariya coming to Maine, and who else was there a bunch of fanfare over?
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> Nonni, Dave, Bob F.... any of you have a comment?
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> Now the Pepin-Danis kid is coming and I forsee a bunch of fanfare over this as well.  (he and Duffy will look a lot like the Merrimack Defense of the mid 90's )
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