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Maine Recruit Updates: Monarchs and More......

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Heisenberg has a 2011 recruit listed for Maine. Andrew Cerretani from Lawrence Academy in Groton, Ma. 5' 8" forward who plays in the Atlantic Metropolitan League. Birthdate of 7/92.
 
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Runsub5 said:
Heisenberg has a 2011 recruit listed for Maine. Andrew Cerretani from Lawrence Academy in Groton, Ma. 5' 8" forward who plays in the Atlantic Metropolitan League. Birthdate of 7/92.
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Correction. This year he is playing in the New England Prep Division. His team plays today at 5:30 in a tournament game against Avon Old Farms.
 
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Correction. This year he is playing in the New England Prep Division. His team plays today at 5:30 in a tournament game against Avon Old Farms.
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Looks like as a 16 year old, he was invited to look at BC, BU, UNH, Harvard, etc...and he had some good acknowledgements. Any info on how things progressed and why he didn't committ to a school until now?? And how he's been doing since?
 
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Andrew Cerretani was selected to the All Hockey Team in 2009 - 2010 by coaches in the Independent School League. Yesterday, Lawrence Academy defeated Old Avon Farms from Ct. in the quarter final (2-1) and will now move to the semi-final in Salem, New Hampshire tomorrow. Andrew is from Pelham, New Hampshire.
 
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Kevin Potter is Andrew Ceretani's coach at Lawrence Academy. He has extensive Maine connections. He is a Bowdoin College graduate and coached boys varsity hockey for 13 years at North Yarmouth Academy followed by a stint at Kents Hill. I thought it was interesting info.
 
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Maine adds another recruit for 2013 or 2014

Ryan Badger from Team Comcast
 
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irishfan85 said:
Dad played for Lowell.
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His older brother currently plays there as well. Someone on the UML recruiting thread said that he/she didn't think Lowell tried with this kid, which to me is astounding.
 
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Ryan has spent 6 yrs with Team Comcast in the Atlantic Youth Hockety League. This past season his numbers are: 20 games, 9 goals, 16 assists, 25 points, 6 penalties and 20 penalty minutes. He will be 17 yrs. old this month. He is listed at 5' 10" 175 lbs.
 
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His older brother currently plays there as well. Someone on the UML recruiting thread said that he/she didn't think Lowell tried with this kid, which to me is astounding.
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Ryan's older brother Rob is currently on the roster at UMass - Lowell. He is a Freshman defenseman.
 
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I was wondering what the connection was, and then I got to the point in the article where it mentions that he's from Sweden.

Thanks for the link.

Quoted from a blog post linked in the article:
A couple of catches here: 1. Norman isn't done with high school. I'm told that, in Sweden, they go to school a year longer than we do in the U.S. So, Norman will return home and have one more year of high school. 2. Norman could ultimately decide to stay in Sweden and pursue pro hockey there.

From what I hear, Maine coaches would like Norman to go home, play his final year of high school hockey there, and possibly a year of junior hockey.

According to a source, one of Maine's assistant coaches was in the Twin Cities last week to scout a game, and he decided to drive down to Mayo's game against Faribault on Feb. 17. The coach then pulled Norman aside to talk about his future after the game. Norman had a goal and two assists against Faribault.

Norman may not ever suit up for Maine, or even play D-I hockey, but it looks like that option is there for him if he chooses.
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I guess he chose.
 
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I'm not sure who has lhead recriting duties for Maine these days . . . I just hope he knows to move East (Finland) and not West (Norway) when the Swedish prospects start drying up.
 
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New recruit for Maine... Swedish kid coming out of Minnesota's Rochester Mayo named Bill Norman.

http://postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1447328

Rochester Mayo boys hockey coach Lorne Grosso first heard about Bill Norman from some veteran Spartans players last fall.

"They told me there was a (foreign exchange student) from Sweden who was pretty good and might make our team," Grosso said. "The first time I saw him on the ice, the puck went to the corner, he went in there, took the puck away, stickhandled up the ice and made a perfect pass.
"I thought, 'he might make the team?'"

Not only did Norman, a senior defenseman, make the team, he led the Spartans in scoring with 47 points (17 goals and 30 assists).

Norman has turned a terrific season at Mayo — his only season of playing hockey in the United States — into a college scholarship at a big-time Division I school. Norman verbally committed to play at the University of Maine, beginning in the fall.

"I know about their tradition and history," Norman said. "It's a really good program."

Maine, which plays in the competitive Hockey East, is 17-10-7 and is currently ranked 14th in the country. The Black Bears have won two national championships (1993, 1999) and have reached the Frozen Four 11 times in the past 22 seasons, the most of any program in the country.

Maine's coaching staff likes Norman's speed, puck-handling ability and elusiveness. But Norman said he has one major goal this summer, when he will return home to Sweden, before heading to Maine in the fall.
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Kids still seem to mention Maine's "tradition and history",which surprises me a little,after the long skid the program has had.(Norman was what,in 8th grade,when Maine last played in the NCAAs?)

Well,whatever...Here's hoping that Norman and his fellow recruits help get the Bears back in the mix,and soon,so that some other kids down the road will regard Maine as a prime destination,too.
 
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Fishman'81 said:
Kids still seem to mention Maine's "tradition and history",which surprises me a little,after the long skid the program has had.(Norman was what,in 8th grade,when Maine last played in the NCAAs?)

Well,whatever...Here's hoping that Norman and his fellow recruits help get the Bears back in the mix,and soon,so that some other kids down the road will regard Maine as a prime destination,too.
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Hopefully yes...but I am always leary of TW's recruits the last few seasons...NOT ALL...but I am more cautious then before in my expectations...usually see a player with talent the 1st year and then for some reason you don't see it much or at all the 2nd/3rd season....could that be Coaching?
 
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