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For most college hockey players, the draft process officially begins during their rookie season. Occasionally, high school athletes, as in the cases of Kolarik and Fried, may impress an organization enough to be drafted before freshman year, provided they are already 19 years old.
The 2000 NHL draft, held in Calgary last June, was one of the Crimson's more successful showings. Of the ten ECAC student-athletes selected, nearly half came from Harvard's roster. Fried went first for the Crimson, selected 77th overall in the third round by the Florida Panthers. Dominic...
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...