You can have your TOM POTI I've seen him play numerous times, must get caught up ice at least ten times a game, and is not physicall at all. I over heard the Might Ducks scout say he is the most overated player he's seen in some time, he went on to say he's not physical enough, and is a wing playing defense! On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Sean Pickett wrote: > Troy Taylor wrote: > > > Is the BU-CM monopoly beginnig to fall? UNH snuck in this year and > > took the best player on possibly the only D1 kid of this years CM > > team. From what I hear Jack Parker was not at all pleased with it. > > Steve O'Brien maybe the one to start the demise of the "BU farm > > team". Just a little fuel for the fire. > > The Boston University-Cathloic Memorial monopoly is, and always has > been, a myth. The one example I can give of the top of my head is CM > star goalie Jim Carey, who went to Wisconsin and not BU. I am sure > that there are several other top CM players who did not go to BU. > > As for Jack Parker being "not at all pleased" about Steve O'Brien > deciding to attend UNH, so what? I expect that every head coach is > "not at all pleased" when a top prospect decides to attend another > school. I doubt Jack is worried about losing the mythical CM > monopoly, since their is not one, or that he was "not at all pleased" > because a CM player chose a school other than BU. > > Jack and BU recruit the best available players regardless of where > they happen to play there high school hockey. A case in point is > Tom Poti of Cushing Academy, who has verbally committed to attend BU > next year. Some people say he is currenly the best high school > player in the US. > > Now, as for the BU-CM myth, I only have the past 11 years worth of BU > information, but only twice in that time has more than one CM player > come to BU in a single year(*). Starting with 1985-86, the breakdown is > as follows: > > Year - # of Fr. from CM - # of players from CM on team - Freshmen > > 1985-86 - 0 - 1 - Bob Deraney (sophmore - walk on) > 1986-87 - 0 - 1 > 1987-88 - 1 - 1 - Tony Campanale (walk on - did not make team) > 1988-89 - 0 - 0 > 1989-90 - 4 - 4 - Mike and Mark Bavis > Stephen Foster, Kevin O'Sullivan > 1990-91 - 0 - 3 - (Foster redshirted) > 1991-92 - 0 - 4 > 1992-93 - 1 - 5 - Mike Prendergast (*) > 1993-94 - 1 - 3 - Chris O' Sullivan (*) > 1994-95 - 3 - 5 - Jeff Kealty, Tom Noble, Mike Sylvia > 1995-96 - 1 - 5 - Brendan Walsh > > That's exactly twelve CM players in twelve years. The myth got going > when the 4 CM players came to BU in 1989-90 and there has been at > least 3 CM players on every team since, although in 1993-94 only two > CM players were regulars on the team as Stephen Foster finished his > disappointing career as a Terrier playing in only 10 early season > games. > > *note: Chris O'Sullivan joined the 1992-93 at the start of the second > semester and played in 5 games before he was redshirted for the > season with a neck injury. > > Sean Pickett E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Go Terriers 1995 NCAA, Hockey East and Beanpot Champions > BU Hockey: http://www.tiac.net/users/spickett/hockey.html > > HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to > [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List. > HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.