With reference to Randy May's recent post: >This is much too general of a statement. I've know too many 18 year old phenom prospects who failed to continue to develop and have seen 20 year old come from nowhere kids go from 5'11" 170 lbs to 6'1" 200 lbs 2 years I guess I'm not sure what point is being made here. It sounds like agreement with what I was trying to say. Yes? <<All of us can cite vignettes which are good counter-examples. In my mind, they just prove the rule. Dave Hendrickson's example of BC is a case in point. The next year those kids he mentions were on the power play and playing for the national championship. True. And they were joined on the power play, if memory serves (and I am not going to bother to look it up), by a twenty or twenty one year old freshman from Niskayuna who had done BOTH the prep school and the USHL thing.>> >Excellent attempt at making no point whatsoever. Perhaps so, but if you read Hendrickson's post and then mine you might understand that he was giving a counterexample that I pointed out was contradictory in itself. -- Dick Tuthill HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.