Here are Oates' stats for the three years he played at RPI. After RPI won the NCAA Championship in his junior year, 1985, he signed a $1 million-plus contract with Detroit. SEASON GP G A Pts RPI Record 1982-3 ? 9 33 42 18-11-0, ECAC Quarterfinalist 1983-4 38 26 57 83 32-6-0, ECAC Champion, NCAA Quarterfinalist 1984-5 38 31 60 91 35-2-1, ECAC Champion, NCAA Champion Postseason honors include 1983-4: Second Team All-ECAC, First Team All-America East (explain that one); 1984-5: First Team All-ECAC, First Team All-America East. The 84-5 RPI team ended the season with a 33-game unbeaten streak (32-0-1), which was extended another five games to 38 (36-0-2) after I came on board in 1985-6. Ties were with Lake Superior in the NCAA Quarterfinals and Clarkson in November 1985. The record is still held by Dartmouth, 46, from 1941 to 1946. However, the RPI streak is considered to be the "modern-day" record. Note that Northern Michigan carries a 26-game unbeaten streak (24-0-2) into next season. That is a new WCHA record. Of course, if Oates had seen fit to stay at RPI another year, maybe RPI would have broken that all-time record, but no... :-) BTW, Glenn mentioned that Oates was one of the biggest reasons Carter had such a great 84-5 season. No doubt about it. He had a stretch of four consecutive 3-or-more goal games early in the season and finished with six hat tricks and 12 multiple goal games. Here are Carter's numbers in Oates' two big seasons, and I threw in those of Oates' other winger, Mark Jooris. All three were juniors in That Championship Season of 1984-5. Carter Oates Jooris SEASON GP G A Pts GP G A Pts GP G A Pts 1983-4 38 35 39 74 38 26 57 83 1984-5 37 43 29 72 38 31 60 91 35 23 37 60 I wish I knew people were going to ask these questions. My RPI guide is at home so I don't have Jooris' 1983-4 stats here, but they didn't approach those of Carter & Oates due to his missing most of the season with an injury. He didn't really receive the recognition he deserved until 1985-6, when without Oates he still finished third in the ECAC in overall scoring with 34-26=60 in 31 games; Carter, meanwhile, dropped off to about 40 points but he missed several games with a bad knee injury suffered at Yale. Chances are very good Carter will be left unprotected by Boston after this season, by the way. I can still see Jooris snap off those quick wrist shots from the right circle. He had a move called the "Joobie toe-drag" where he would protect the puck with just the tip of the blade, slide around a defender and be in perfect position to snap it inside the crossbar. A real character, too. I believe he is playing in Europe now, after several seasons with Edmonton's farm team and with Team Canada. A remarkable Jooris stat: in three games against Michigan in 1985-6, he scored *13* goals. Five came in the opening game of the GLI, tying the GLI record. Five more came in an 11-10 overtime loss at Michigan a few weeks later, and a hat trick closed it out when RPI gained a split the next night against the Wolverines. If ever a team wished an opposing player got lost on his way to the rink, it was Michigan & Jooris.