No spin (I leave that to you) just the truth eye, nothing but the truth. I am curious to know where you found 7 Canadian born players in the USHL that received scholarships this year. I have only counted four (Oreskovich, Lawrence, Yarowski, and Fornatano, SOURCE:
http://www.ushl.com/college/index.cfm). I would also like the names of the 6 Canadian players in the NAHL and the 2 from the Minnesota prep leagues (if one of them is Ryan Duncan then I must say you are sly eye, very sly since you know that he is a 2005 recruit and not a 2004!) Since you mentioned Canadian born players in the US domestic leagues (both real and maybe some imagined) allow me to list some American born talent in the BCHL.
Powell, Schiavone, Ramsey,Hollweg, Johnson, Wilkens, Naglich and Rogers are all Americans and cannot be included in your list of Canadian born players. So your 51 from the BCHL becomes 43. Off the top of my head from Ontario there are Nogatch, Maier and Devine who are also American and I will bet one of my good hats that there are at least a few more Americans in that league who received shcolarships as well! So until I see some specific Canadian names, I may be willing to say that 140 or so Freshman Canadians will play in the NCAA this year.
I am glad to see you finally admitted that you were wrong about the Canadian content in the NHL. 52% of all players is a far cry from your original 35%
You often claim that I am anti-NCAA (which of course you cannot substantiate) but what is your fasination with putting the Greyhounds down? They have produced more star players than the Gophs could ever hope to!
As for Greyhound players in the CIS from the 2000 to 2003 teams, I count nine (that represent a little less than a third of those that graduated) players and not six. Richards (who was the rookie of the year in the OAU by the way eye), Held, Theobold, Jones, Martin, Fox, Day, Hedburg, and Dymtruk were all playing in the CIS this year. Stefanski was just recruited to play for Lakehead this spring and both Dobben and Doyle were heavily recruited by just about every major CIS school but both will likely play pro (my bet is on Dobben to be in the AHL while Doyle will most likely start in the ECHL). Your problem eye is that you rely to much on the Internet Hockeydatabase, which doesn't keep good records of CIS players.
As for your Goph AHL grads, lets go over this again
Aaron Miskovich - Quad City Mallards - UHL
Dylan Mills - Quad City Mallards - UHL
Pat O'Leary - Kalamazoo Wings - UHL
Nick Angell - Rockford Ice Hogs - UHL
Erik Wendell- Rockford Ice Hogs - UHL
Adam Hauser - Jackson Bandits -UHL
I refuse to count someone like Angel, who played a mere TWO GAMES in the AHL this year as an AHL regular! Same goes for Hauser who only played in ONE AHL game his rookie season!
You cannot say for certain that Riddle and Koalska will be in the AHL this coming season (in short don't count your chickens before they hatch eye)!
Are you so arrogant to believe that Lucia's teams will go down as the most successful in North America?
Lets make a bet eye (you can choose the terms). I say that Carter will be more successful in the NHL within the next 5 years than Vanek or any other Goph who played this year. Are you on?!