Mike Eruzione

Do you want to play?

I said, well, you need a player.

I'll play.

So I played in the game.

And it turned out the referee of the game was this guy named Jack Parker, who I didn't know who he was.

He was just the referee.

And when the game was over, Jack Parker pulled me aside.

He says, hey, I'm Jack Parker.

I'm the assistant coach at Boston University.

We have a kid from Canada that decided not to come.

Would you like to come to Boston University?

And I'm like, yeah.

I mean, BU's coming off back-to-back national championships at the time.

And I said to him, it has to be a full scholarship because my dad can't afford $3,500.

He goes, no, it's a full scholarship.

So I went to Boston University, and Jack Parker was the assistant coach.

A guy named Leon Abbott was the head coach, and Leon Abbott didn't know me from Adam, but I made the varsity my freshman year, and I was playing a few games here and there, and Leon Abbott got fired for recruiting violations.

Jack Parker became the head coach.

So I went from centering the fourth line to playing left wing on the second line and led my team in scoring my freshman year.

Wow.