thoreson@lymph.DEC (Donald W. Thoreson CSSE-MASME 264-5623) (02/27/85)
re:Ann Sledz You have found someone else interested in High School Hockey, although I am limited in my awareness of various High Schools. My interest has been mostly the H.S. in New Hampshire. I coached a lot of the kids now in the H.S. when they were in the minor leagues and my team played against a lot of the others. This being my first attempt to share communication through the user net, I will keep this brief, why waste a lot of words if I am not sure it is going to make it to you or anyone else that may be interested. Briefly, I do know that Nashua H.S. (11th ?) beat Berlin (1st) on Sunday and are playing against Trinity (4th) on Wednsday. This makes two years in a row that Nashua just made the playoffs and beat Berlin in overtime. I suspect the Berlin team is getting a little frustrated with the pesky Panthers. Nashua has a super coach and it shows in the way his team plays. They also have two of thebest goalies in the state with Billy Todd and Matty Ferria (sp ?). I coached Billy and he can be unbelievible, we played against Matty and he is very quick. My favorite team is Bishop Guertin, mostly because that is where my son played up to last year. More on that if this makes it, but what made that experience most interesting is B.G. plays Mount St. Charles every year (both being CatholicHigh Schools) and because of that Don (my son) played against Pat LaFontain for two of the three years. B.G. was able to tie them once and loose by one the other time and LaFontain was on the ice. The time we lost, their coach pulled the team off the ice for drills early. That stunk, one more period and we would have beat them. Don's defensive partner during that time now plays for Plymouth as a starting defenseman on the varsity team, Don plays for UNH intermural hockey. Surprisingly they have 13 division with six teams in each division at UNH. That is a lot of kids (young men) playing hockey for one school. Those are just a few of the kids I know about that are nearing college level hockey but am willing to banter more if an interest exsists. Don "the puck" Thoreson