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Already a second-round NHL draft pick, Welch wasn’t short on offers. Sure, if he was going to build a train he’d build it in Cambridge, but if he had wanted a ride, it wouldn’t have taken much prodding to board the Green Line to Chestnut Hill...
...growing up in Brighton, Mass., years before recruiting would demand his attention, Welch had already divided his loyalties between Harvard and Boston College. The former had always held the preferred position, though, thanks to equipment manager Chet Stone, who would place a call to the up-and-coming defenseman and a friend inviting the pair to skate when the Bright Hockey Center had open...
...when recruiters made their respective pitches and Welch narrowed his finalists to the four Beanpot participants, the Crimson again showed interest in ways the Golden Eagles never...
...Harvard told me that I was one of their top recruits coming in and BC wasn’t really giving me that strong a look, I guess,” Welch said. “They liked me, but they weren’t as passionate and they didn’t seem to want me as badly...
...course, at that moment in time, the Crimson didn’t just want Welch. If second-year coach Mark Mazzoleni and his assistants were to turn their club around, they needed guys like...