Mike Eruzione

There were no showcases, so you want to see the best players play?

Go to Lynn Arena and watch Winthrop High School play Danvers High School.

So, I mean, that's basically what it was.

We live in a whole different...

Again, I work at Boston University.

We got three kids from Sweden.

We got two from Finland.

We got one from Russia.

We're recruiting all over the world.

Our coaches are out there at these showcases, but all these kids are paying a lot of money to play.

To me, there's only a few that are going to make it.

I personally think these kids spend too much money spending, searching, trying, traveling.

but that's you know that's the the culture you know you want to play division one baseball you've got to be on the aau team that's that's what it is today i'm glad it wasn't like that when i played because you just played and there were pressures and did you have so when you're at winthrop then um did you have coaches did you have

one two five ten college coaches come see like how many overlooked you was it just a small number or was it a lot of coaches that were coming to your high school I would say they were probably a small number because there weren't many colleges playing hockey at that time you know the game has grown uh it's you know where you know when I was a kid you were from Massachusetts Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota

Maybe Maine, upstate New York, places like that for hockey players.

Now, California, Arizona, Texas, Florida.

Look at how many players play.

Not just men, our women.

Our women's program.

You can't believe how good the women are now than they were 10 years ago.