Mike Eruzione

The games were in Innsbruck.

And I think the US team came in fourth or fifth.

So I missed that and passed that opportunity up.

So again, I talk about how my life turned and things in your life that happen.

So I graduated from Boston University in 1977 and the New York Rangers, they owned my rights.

They drafted me.

I was a second round draft pick of the New York Rangers.

So when the season ended, BU ended, that summer I was getting ready to go to camp with the New York Rangers.

So I went to camp with the New York Rangers and I had a really good camp.

And a guy named John Ferguson was the general manager of the New York Rangers.

And Fergie called me into his office.

He says, Mike, you had a great camp.

We really like you.

We think you're going to be a really good player, but we don't, we're not signing any new players.

We have our first pick, which a kid named Ron Duguay, who had a great career with the Rangers.

And we have a bunch of older players and we're not shelling out any money for any more players.

But we want to keep you in our system.

So they sent me to Toledo, Ohio.

And I played for a team called the Toledo Gold Diggers.

Anybody seen the movie Slapshot?