Matt Moulson Article (link)

[Scott Goldsmith]

Reviews a little of Moulson's freshman year and how he will likely get drafted.

http://www.guelphmercury.com/sports/pollard/sports_pollard_03042291020.html

[Section A]

They never actually mention it in the article, and I'm trying to think back to which game it might have been in, but against which team did Moulson absorb the "biggest hit of his hockey career?"

Another thing - why would a TEAMMATE's mom call him the worst player in the league?!

Good luck to him in the draft though; I hope he goes to Columbus :-D  (I'm from Ohio...)

[min \'97]

maybe she is mad at Moulson for being responsible for her son's lack of playing time? :-P

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]From the article:

Moulson won't leave the Ithaca, N.Y., campus until he finishes exams in the middle of May then he'll head back to spend most of the summer at school in an attempt to get a jump on next season.[/Q]This, I think, speaks volumes about the team. Well, at least about Moulson, but if he's doing it as a soph, he can't be alone.

[Al DeFlorio]

Mike Schafer has pointed out numerous times in TV and print interviews that many players spent last summer in Ithaca working out and in other ways getting ready for this past season.  It has been a major part of the story of how the team took motivation from the 2001-2002 season's disappointments in order to succeed this season.

[ugarte]

Jim Hyla '67 wrote:

[Q]From the article:

Moulson won't leave the Ithaca, N.Y., campus until he finishes exams in the middle of May then he'll head back to spend most of the summer at school in an attempt to get a jump on next season.[/Q]This, I think, speaks volumes about the team. Well, at least about Moulson, but if he's doing it as a soph, he can't be alone.

I don't want to be the turd in the punchbowl here (especially right after ragging on CULater for more or less the same thing), but I don't think that this makes Moulson, or Cornellians, particularly unique.  Dedicating summers to training and/or classwork is the cost of doing business if you want to be a full-time student and a full-time athlete when in college.  A player can graduate in four years taking 12 credit semesters if he also takes summer courses, and it goes without saying that ice time in the fall is dependent on summer conditioning.

I think it is admirable that Moulson is doing this, just not particularly admirable for a college athlete.  That this is the norm, however, does not make it less impressive. Now excuse me while I go grab some praline that a coworker brought back from New Orleans.



Post Edited (04-29-03 10:45)

[CUlater]

Thanks BRA. :-D

Moulson, no doubt, is also spurred by his goal of reaching the NHL.

Although I can't speak about every summer and every player, in the past there have been plenty of players who stayed part or most of the summer in Ithaca, for school and/or workouts, including one who was in my summer stats class.  And, of course, there used to be pick-up hockey at Lynah, which sometimes involved then-current players and, among others, Joe Nieuwendyk and Mike Richter.

How hard they worked (on school or in workouts), I couldn't say.