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BU Recruiting Update, Part 4

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BU Fan 84 said:
What's going on with the younger Greenway? I see he is listed as the second d-pair, ahead of Krys. Would love to see him commit to BU.
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98 D JD Greenway (NTDP) commits to Wisconsin. Huge get on defense for the Badgers, 6'4 Potsdam NY native is an imposing force w/ pro upside
 
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2017 recruit Ty Amonte will spend next season playing for the BCHL Penticton Vees, the team Dante Fabbro played for the past two years. Amonte scored 70 points for Thayer Academy as a senior and won the Bruins' John Carlton Memorial Award which is presented annually to the top male and female player from an Eastern Mass. high school or junior program “who combines exceptional hockey skills with academic excellence.”

Journalist Neal Boudette, who covers automotive topics for the NY Times, interviewed Clayton Keller and Kieffer Bellows just prior to the NHL combine for The Terrier Hockey Fan Blog. http://terrierhockey.blogspot.com/2016/06/masters-in-chemistry.html
 
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Rogie21 said:
2017 recruit Ty Amonte will spend next season playing for the BCHL Penticton Vees, the team Dante Fabbro played for the past two years. Amonte scored 70 points for Thayer Academy as a senior and won the Bruins' John Carlton Memorial Award which is presented annually to the top male and female player from an Eastern Mass. high school or junior program “who combines exceptional hockey skills with academic excellence.”

Journalist Neal Boudette, who covers automotive topics for the NY Times, interviewed Clayton Keller and Kieffer Bellows just prior to the NHL combine for The Terrier Hockey Fan Blog. http://terrierhockey.blogspot.com/2016/06/masters-in-chemistry.html
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Assuming that Ty graduated from Thayer (the article references that he played 4 years), what does someone in his situation do in terms of academics/education while playing a year of Junior? Nothing? Start on some classes that will lighten his load at BU in 2017?
 
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Rogie21 said:
First ranking of incoming freshman comes from scout/referee Carl DeLucia:
Forward: Keller #1, Bellows #3, Harper #18
Defense: Fabbro #1, Krys #3
Goalie: Oettinger #1

https://carldelucia.com/2016/04/26/carldeluciancaahockey/
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Impressive (to state the obvious). From an "NHL potential", this has to be the best class in the history of BU, if not all of college hockey. Someone listed a Minnesota group that was pretty darn good too, don't remember who was in it.
 
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Tater said:
Praying Keller makes it here...
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Seconded. The mixed signals he sent during the NHL Combine was far from a vote of confidence. This is different than the rumor mongers up north who still claim Eichel is headed to St. John b/c it came from Keller himself.

FWIW someone like Keller, who needs to get stronger, would benefit a lot more from 1-2 years in college than playing a full OHL schedule. I think his final decision may come down to whichever team drafts him; in looking at where many prognosticators project Keller to be drafted, I'd be less concerned if he's drafted by the Habs, Devils or B's, and more concerned if Colorado, Ottawa or Carolina drafts him.
 
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Friend_of_BU_Hockey said:
Seconded. The mixed signals he sent during the NHL Combine was far from a vote of confidence. This is different than the rumor mongers up north who still claim Eichel is headed to St. John b/c it came from Keller himself.

FWIW someone like Keller, who needs to get stronger, would benefit a lot more from 1-2 years in college than playing a full OHL schedule. I think his final decision may come down to whichever team drafts him; in looking at where many prognosticators project Keller to be drafted, I'd be less concerned if he's drafted by the Habs, Devils or B's, and more concerned if Colorado, Ottawa or Carolina drafts him.
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I'm a little concerned, just because he is such a high-level talent, but I'm confident that he truly plans on coming to BU, and he is being nice (and wise) by not indicating that another option is not even being considered. This (obviously) isn't a situation where he is jockeying for position in the OHL draft, a la Esposito. The fact that he was trying to talk his buddies into coming to BU bodes well. While he said Logan Brown (who plays for the Spitfires) is his best friend, I'm hoping quantity will outweigh that.

I always come back to: why would someone who has already shown they can average well over a point a game playing against older NCAA competition opt to play against younger competition?

I haven't memorized the draft order, but certainly we've seen some non-NCAA friendly teams (e.g. Toronto) push hard to get players to go a different route.
 
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defkit said:
I'm a little concerned, just because he is such a high-level talent, but I'm confident that he truly plans on coming to BU, and he is being nice (and wise) by not indicating that another option is not even being considered. This (obviously) isn't a situation where he is jockeying for position in the OHL draft, a la Esposito. The fact that he was trying to talk his buddies into coming to BU bodes well. While he said Logan Brown (who plays for the Spitfires) is his best friend, I'm hoping quantity will outweigh that.

I always come back to: why would someone who has already shown they can average well over a point a game playing against older NCAA competition opt to play against younger competition?

I haven't memorized the draft order, but certainly we've seen some non-NCAA friendly teams (e.g. Toronto) push hard to get players to go a different route.
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Brown may be his best friend, but how long has he been on the same line as Bellows? When they played at BU this year those two seemed to be in complete sync with one another and their stats bore that out through the rest of their season.
 
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That ranking is by his "points" which obviously favors teams with more recruits. The last line has the ranking based on average, with MN at third somehow and UND and UMD not on there so I'm guessing whatever he's doing is not great.
 
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Friend_of_BU_Hockey said:
Seconded. The mixed signals he sent during the NHL Combine was far from a vote of confidence. This is different than the rumor mongers up north who still claim Eichel is headed to St. John b/c it came from Keller himself.

FWIW someone like Keller, who needs to get stronger, would benefit a lot more from 1-2 years in college than playing a full OHL schedule. I think his final decision may come down to whichever team drafts him; in looking at where many prognosticators project Keller to be drafted, I'd be less concerned if he's drafted by the Habs, Devils or B's, and more concerned if Colorado, Ottawa or Carolina drafts him.
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What mixed signals? He specifically stated that he was coming to BU no matter who drafts him. You can't be any more un-mixed than that.
 
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BU Fan 84 said:
What mixed signals? He specifically stated that he was coming to BU no matter who drafts him. You can't be any more un-mixed than that.
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He did give some mixed signals at the combine. He said that "as of right now" BU was his "top choice." After that answer the reporter asked him if he was 100% committed to BU, he said 99%.
 
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Tater said:
He did give some mixed signals at the combine. He said that "as of right now" BU was his "top choice." After that answer the reporter asked him if he was 100% committed to BU, he said 99%.
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Also, somewhere when asked if the team that drafts him will have a say in what route he takes and he said yes, or even "definitely", although "definitely' seemed to be his answer for everything that was a "yes".
 
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Mike Morreale piece that was posted on NHL.com today about the four BU first-rounders.
https://www.nhl.com/news/boston-university-a-big-presence-at-nhl-draft/c-280938184?tid=277764372

The two other BU recruits expected to be selected in the first round were linemates on USA Hockey's Under-18 National Team Development Program: center Clayton Keller and left wing Kieffer Bellows. Keller was also selected by Windsor in the second round (No. 40) of the 2014 Ontario Hockey League draft, and Bellows by Portland in the seventh round (No. 142) of the 2013 Western Hockey League draft.

However, Keller and Bellows each confirmed to NHL.com at the combine that he intends to play for BU in 2016-17.
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Quinn said he is thankful so many former BU players have become ambassadors and helped facilitate the recruiting process. Buffalo Sabres center Jack Eichel, who won the Hobey Baker Award as the best player in college hockey as a freshman at Boston University during the 2014-15 season, has done his part in helping bolster BU's lineup. Eichel was selected No. 2 in the 2015 draft.

"Your former players and current players are your best recruiters," Quinn said. "They know what's going to go on when they come to BU. I can sit here and say this is going to happen, but at the end of the day there's so much information out there that you have to be honest with these kids. It's important to have players like [Eichel] share their experiences."
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