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Deerfield Coach Jim Lindsay was making out lines during practice before the 1998 season and forgot to assign his leading scorer--Tyler Kolarik--to a unit. Lindsay looked at his roster and saw only two available forwards, Chip Canner and a large, gangly kid named Robert Fried who had seen...
"Tyler and I were put together as a joke," Fried says. "We were all best friends and the only guys left, so coach threw us out there. On our first shift we bonded, and we realized that we could accomplish a lot."
Kolarik-Fried-Canner brought Deerfield to two New England Prep School championship games. Now a similar trio-- Kolarik-Fried- and a center to be determined later-- has the chance to bring success to Harvard. The tandem is the centerpiece of a stellar freshmen class, which hopefully will add much-needed...
The NHL recognized their promise this off-season as the Florida Panthers took Fried in the third round of the draft while the Columbus Bluejackets selected Kolarik in the fifth. But that potential was only tapped because they were first friends.
Kolarik and Fried are almost the perfect odd couple. Looking at them side-by-side, one wonders just how they clicked.