Something else for us to talk about.
Last Wednesday, I was browsing the RPI club hockey website as I do on occasion. When I saw the team picture
http://clubhockey.union.rpi.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=5&Itemid=42, which must have been posted recently, one thing immediately struck me. There is a very tall person in the back row. Looking at the roster below the picture, it is clearly Sean Sanford who is a 6' 9", 230-lb, freshman defenseman. I suspect that he isn't particularly good, perhaps slow or awkward, or we would certainly have heard something by now. BTW, 6' 9" makes him two inches taller than anyone on RPI’s basketball team.
It wasn't hard to find this page
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=139529 on HockeydB. So he played as a forward for the Drumheller Bandits in 2010-2011 in the AJHL and the NJ Hitmen of the EJHL last year. Three years ago he played for the Missoula Maulers in the AWHL.
There is a lot about him on the internet, mostly dealing with his size, e.g.,
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/juniorho...ho-s-taller-than-Char?urn=juniorhockey-284151. Here is another with a video which also mentions that he had an 800 on his math SAT
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/ajhl-player-stands-tall-1.581989.
There are also some more videos on the net including
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plfm2itTJO4 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Ayww9gJA.
Here is an old Hockey’s Future thread asking about him.
http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=848106. The recent post #9 is mine.
Some more sleuthing showed that he originally committed to Colby (thanks, Wicked). The NJ Hitman website shows him as an RPI commitment.
I wonder if there is a chance that he could play on the varsity in the future. He could be the player that stands in front of the net on the power play as DrD has proposed on many occasions. I am sure that SA and company know about him, and I wonder if they had anything to do with him coming to RPI.
This is all quite interesting. I am surprised that he has never been mentioned here before. I did ask several RPI USCHO posters about him last week before posting this, and he was not known to any of them. I decided to hold off on posting this until after the NC trip.
There are some fight videos, but I figured that the one in the Drumheller video was enough. Had he have met up with Jimmy DeVito, I would have posted it.