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RPI 2011 - 12 Recruit Thread

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Very true. Also, look at Chase Polacek. Late pick-up, undrafted (mainly because of size), but a two-time ECAC Player of the Year. Recruiting is a box of chocolates.
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As hard as it is to recruit for the NCAA 5-7 years ahead of time=Imagine what NHL scouts have to do. After all, they have to think about not only can these kids make it to the college level-but can they take it much further and compete on the professional level. Lots of scouts for the NHL passed on Martin St Louis and Eric Perrin for a long time. I am sure they had the same thoughts about Chase. I suspect if Chase had the same talent level that he had shown but was 6'2 and 210 pounds-he might have been a second or third round pick when he was elligible.
 
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DrDemento said:
RC-Way back in the old days when i was still in training in Medicine at BU-there was talk of some kid hockey player coming who was going to just revolutionize the Boston Bruins and lead them to success. He wasn't quite 14 or 15 at the time and I just ignored what was being said. I think the kid was named Orr. But as i mentioned before-it is usually impossible to predict how these 13 year old kids will be in the 6 or 7 years it takes to reach the NCAA. Their bone and muscle development is not even close to being finished. Whatever skills they possess at that age may make them attractive to recruit but all of these coaches have to have a crystal ball to be able to try to predict how they will turn out. That being said-we have had a chance to watch this youngster Melanson over a period of time now-he is progressing quite nicely. I think we may have quite a find here but I don't expect to see him in Troy for at least 2 more years if not 3.
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Orr was already playing for the Bruins in 66-67. Wasn't he there already when you were there?
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Orr was already playing for the Bruins in 66-67. Wasn't he there already when you were there?
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Spent time at BU in the 60's but had heard about this young kid coming for years before. He was touted as being the savior for the franchise-all of that before he ever set foot on the ice-but obviously they knew what they were talking about from the time he was a kid and then playing at Oshawa. I wonder how often though that these early scoutings are correct like that.
 
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DrDemento said:
Spent time at BU in the 60's but had heard about this young kid coming for years before. He was touted as being the savior for the franchise-all of that before he ever set foot on the ice-but obviously they knew what they were talking about from the time he was a kid and then playing at Oshawa. I wonder how often though that these early scoutings are correct like that.
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I also remember him being touted as a young teen.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I also remember him being touted as a young teen.
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i am pretty sure that there have been lots of others who were highly touted who amounted to nothing. i honestly do not know how these scouts can be expected to spot the diamonds in the rough out there more than a couple years away. Especially with boys first maturing between 12 and 16-it just has to be a lot of guess work.
 
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So... who's skipping this home weekend and going to Middlebury?

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20120122/NJSPORTS0123/301220039/

The greatest high school hockey show in New Jersey is heading north.

The second leg of this year’s Delbarton hockey tour will begin on Friday when the four-time NJSIAA Non-Public champions head to Connecticut to challenge South Kent and continue on to face Northwood Prep of Lake Placid (N.Y.) at Middlebury College in Vermont.
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FlagDUDE08 said:
I'm skipping the home weekend, but not to go to Middlebury. Instead, I'll be hanging out with RB and company running up my post count.
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You may need to go into the Cafe and just respond to all the posts in there. You could post on the many association threads in there several times per day each.:)
 
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23 Riley Bourbonnais   LC Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (USHL) 2012  08/08/93 5'10" 191 Rochester, NY        27-10- 8- 18- 10 01/27/12 #824
12 Miloš Bubela        RC Dubuque Fighting Saints (USHL)  12/13 08/25/92 6'02" 186 Banska Bystrica SVK   3- 1- 1-  2-  0 01/27/12 #826
 3 Chris Bradley *     LD Youngstown Phantoms (USHL)      2012  05/20/93 6'04" 190 Williamsville NY     29- 5- 6- 11-  8 01/26/12 #843
12 Jimmy DeVito        RW Chicago Steel (USHL)            2013  04/02/94 5'11" 165 Bloomingdale IL      32- 4-10- 14- 69 01/27/12 #843
22 Charles Manley      LD Selects Hockey Academy U16      2014  07/16/96 5'08" 150 Orchard Park NY       0- 0- 0-  0-  0 01/25/12 no stats
27 Drew Melanson       LW Delbarton School (Gordon Conf)  13/14 01/10/95 5'11" 145 Paramus NJ           13- 8-20- 28-  x 01/27/12 #873
26 Mark Miller *        F Omaha Lancers (USHL)            2012  07/26/92 5'11" 180 Massena NY           33- 5- 1-  6- 17 01/27/12 #825
11 Jake Wood           LW Junior Bobcats U-18 Elite       2013  08/06/93 5'08" 170 Georgetown ON        17- 4- 5-  9-  0 season over, incomplete
23                        Gunnery School (NEPSHC)                                                       13- 5-14- 19-  x 01/25/12 #805 missing games
                        					                   total                30- 9-19- 28-  x
15 Mike Zalewski *     LW Vernon Vipers (BCHL)            2012  08/18/92 6'03" 205 New Hartford NY      41-22-28- 50- 57 01/27/12 #829
33 Jason Kasdorf        G Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL)    2012  05/18/92 6'03" 190 Winnipeg MB      24-10-10-2-3.19-.903 01/27/12 #827

Women
24 Brandi Banks *       D Stoney Creek Sabres (PWHL)      2012  05/11/94 5'08" 140 Burlington ON        22- 1-12- 13- 14 01/27/12
xx Jennifer Godin *     D Tabor Academy                   2012  02/09/94 x'xx' xxx Clarence Center NY    0- 0- 0-  0-  0 02/01/12 no stats
14                        Massachusetts Spitfires U19 Major (NEGHL)                                     15- 2- 1-  3-16.5 season over, incomplete
                                                                                   total                15- 2- 1-  3-16.5
 3 Alexa Gruschow       F Washington Pride (JWHL)         2012  04/16/94 x'xx" xxx Mechanicsburg PA     41-30-43- 73- 68 01/28/12 
10 Lauren Wash *        F New Jersey Rockets U19          2012  06/24/94 5'04" 115 Belle Mead NJ         0- 0- 0-  0-  0 02/04/12 no stats

* In the RPI directory
 
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