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Wait, what? :unsure: When did this happen?

Actually, the second best player from that team is a Bruins draft pick and has gone on record to say that he is returning for his senior season. ;)

00 is an awesome number. I don't need any reason other than that for a goalie wearing it.

It's already been established that he will wear 99.

People take this too seriously.

Gaudreau entered the NHL as a 21 year old rookie. Eichel will be an 18/19 year old rookie (too lazy to look up exactly where his DOB falls).

3 years ;)

There was a lot of disorder going into his junior season. It was Quinn's first year as a head coach and also the first time in about 200 years that BU had a new head coach. Combine all of that with a lot of turnover in talent and that probably goes a long way to explain the weak number that year, mostly across the board on the team. They were very young and raw, with not all that much talent to work with.

So 99 it is.

I was actually going to make the Brian Flynn comparison. Another guy who padded his stats skating with elite talent (Nyqvist). That's not to say that Flynn isn't a useful player though.

Maybe he'll wear 99.

If you're looking for information, you're best going off right here. I can't say that I ever bothered looking at a wikipedia citation before, but there's bound to be a ton of old links in there.

Yes, an old, outdated page within the NHL website.

According to Wikipedia, Wikipedia was created while I was in college. I think the internet in general was still the "never cite it" source at that point.

It has to be an old link. Like I said, there is no mentioning of an opt-in in the CBA. And since you mentioned the dates, here is that section of the CBA:

You really don't see all that many huge jumps, but players do tend to increase slightly from year to year. There's definitely no reason to be concerned with his progression though, since his stats were essentially the same both years. Next year should be very telling though. He's at the point where he needs to take over and become a leader on that team. The junior season may as well be the make or break year for a lot of the college kids.

It seems like they may have carried that over from the old rules because there is no mentioning of that at all in the CBA. Here is the cut and paste from the current CBA: I'm a bit confused by what you linked to on the NHL website. How did you get to that link? The only place I even see the words "Hockey Operations" doesn't have an active link.

That has to be something that website took from the CBA prior to the 2005 lockout. There is nothing in the current CBA that requires anyone to declare for the draft.

Where are you getting this from? That's exactly what you tend to see with most guys over their college careers, an upward slope. Fasching's not particularly a concern though as he's only been there two years and that really isn't a dropoff from one to the next.

Old people like to ramble on and on. Just picture Parker as Grampa Simpson and you'll get a more clear picture. :lol:

I'm pretty sure that no one has ever worn the number 99 in an NHL game.

Eichel makes the players around him better. There is no better example than his linemate this year, Evan Rodrigues. Take a look at his stats with and without Eichel. 60 points in three years without him, 61 points in the one year with him. There were similar increases from all the top scorers on that team. He took a horrible team with some good young talent and turned it into the highest scoring offense in the nation. That's the Eichel-effect. Now he just needs to do it again. That description of BU feels awfully similar to the Sabres, a horrible team with some good young talent. The only difference is that instead of just spending one year, he gets to bloom along with these players for a long time. Let's hope he's able to do it again.

There's been audio floating around of both coaches talking about Eichel.

I was going to suggest that instead of a number he would just have a picture of himself instead. I guess his hair kind of works for your suggestion though.

I just can't picture Mike doing drugs. He's too bad ass for that. He always needs to be on top of his game before killing a warehouse full of rival cartel members.