Not quite. Umile's complete disregard for any recruiting involvement actually saves him here.Mike would have been one of Umile's boys, a nice Italian kid from the North Boston suburbs. Rumors are that Vecchione was Lassonde's find, and when Lassonde left, Borek wasn't as enamored. (I posted a bunch of links about two weeks ago.) So it was Borek who decided Mike wasn't ready on the promised schedule.
Moreover, MV did spend that extra year in juniors, right? So, maybe Borek was correct in his assessment?