Paulette writes: >Round 8 > >191. Pierre-Claude Drouin, Cornell, LW >206. Bill Holowatiak, Cornell, D >Round 10 > >253. Michael Sancimino, Cornell, C >Oddly enough the best Cornell player of the three, Sancimino, has the lowest > ranking. This is probably due to the fact that he only played 11 games >because of mono. That probably didn't help, although the scouts presumably have some idea of Mike's performance in Junior A before coming to Cornell. I'd agree that Sancimino is the best of those three right now -- but in looking at "poten- tial", which supposedly is what the Scouting Bureau is doing, I'd have to give the sizeable edge to P.C. Drouin. Whether he'll ever realize that potential is a whole other question... Greg writes: >It will be good to see a few more Cornellians being >drafted, and these are 3 of the 5 I would have >expected. I'm a little surprised that Bandurski was >neither in last year's draft nor projected for this >year. And I'm shocked that Chartrand isn't - so >much so that I wonder whether he's old enough >yet. Chartrand turned 18 in December (three days before Bill Holowatiuk, as a matter of fact), so age isn't a problem. Since Brad doesn't have the game- busting talent of, say, Paul Kariya, I'll wager that the NHL types are thinking only one thing about him: 5-10, 170 pounds. That's widely con- sidered too small to survive in the pros. (Paging Theo Fleury, paging Pavel Bure) P.C. and Mike, in contrast, are both 6-1 or so. If Brad does continue his hockey career after Cornell, he'll probably follow in the footsteps of another 5-10, 170-pound former Big Red scoring demon (Doug Derraugh) and go play in Europe. As far as Bando is concerned, I suspect his tendency to drop down whenever an opponent shoots the puck, as well as his skate-all-the-hell-over-the-defensive-zone style of play, works against him in the scouts' minds. -- Bill Fenwick Cornell '86 and probably '94 LET'S GO RED!! "It's amazing that men and women get together at all, because we're total opposites. A woman wants a man to satisfy her every need, while a man wants every woman to satisfy his one need." -- Jeff Stilson