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Written by Ryan
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:16 |
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 This is a great find, by me. As usual. There's this kid who's a 20 year old freshman at Merrimack and is 4th in scoring in Hockey East. And it get's better. He's from Paris. Yeah Paris, France. His name is Stephane Da Costa and if there's anything my 4 in AP French taught me it's that we should sign this kid and stop signing 21 year old vets from every league in the CHL.
Da Costa has 44 points in 31 games in the same league where JVR topped out at 40 in 36. And Stephane is playing on a sub .500 team. This is his 4th year playing North American hockey and he posted decent numbers in the NAHL and USHL before heading to college.
While being a 20 year old Freshman might catch your eye it's actually pretty normal in the college hockey scene. Unless you're a phenom who's most likely drafted out of high school it generally goes high school, American juniors for at least a year and about half the time 2, and then onto college. Da Costa is the youngest player of top 20 scorers in Hockey East, a group made up of mostly sophomores and juniors.
This is our concern - we've pretty much stretched the Simon Gagne and Danny Briere baguette and red wine jokes as far as they'll go. But if we got a real French dude in the mix we could break the glass ceiling that everyone's been talking about and really get into the Eiffel Tower, Jacques Chirac, and some stinky cheese.
In semi-seriousness though, this kid scored 5 goals in the second game of his college hockey career. While it was extremely un-American to do, seeing as the game happened to be against Army, we'd be willing to let this kid in on a professional tryout this July after the draft. The Flyers need to go all Red Wings and start getting something for nothing. Our version of the 7th round Zetterberg is Vaclav Pletka. If you're all like 'what?' that's for good reason because he played a single, solitary game as a Flyer.
Other notable unsigned Frat Boys:
SO Jack Connolly - University of Minnesota Duluth
FR Andy Taranto - University of Alaska - Fairbanks
SO Cameron Burt - RIT
JR Chace Polacek - RPI
Invite them all. What have you got to lose?
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I want him now.