Mike M. writes: Mallen is lucky to have a recruiter on his staff who I think is very capable of landing those quality players - Scott McPherson. When McPherson was at Merrimack for just one year, he brought in three players who have proven to be key to MC thus far - goalie Martin Legault, D John Jakopin, and F Claudio Peca. If McPherson can work his magic for the Minutemen, that combined with their excellent on-ice coaching should lead to steady and quick improvement for UMA in the upcoming seasons. ===================================================================== It's nice to hear accolades about Scott. I've never met the man, but always got the impression from interviews (spoken and written) that he was a class act. I felt bad that he got stuck playing with bad teams for 3 of his 4 years at Lowell, but I always felt he could have put some tremendous numbers if he was given a better supporting cast. (See the numbers he put up his Frosh year playing with the Jon Morris-led Chiefs). Everybody seems to speak very highly of him as a coach and it would be great to see him end up as the main man behind the bench at a Division 1 school someday. A bit of Scott McPherson trivia: It was Scott who did the skating scenes (from the waist down) for Rob Lowe in the movie "Youngblood". ************************************************************************** Steve Weisfeldt Univ. of Lowell 1986, 1988 Home of the 'Hawks!! [log in to unmask] 7-5-1 [1] (12-10-3) **************************************************************************