RPI senior Economakos signs with The Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies of the ECHL

[jim bob]

March 10 2005 Nick Economakos signed with the boardwealk bullies he is expected to make his debut on Friday night when they play Johnstown.
http://www.echl.com/cgi-bin/mpublic.cgi?action=show_news&cat=1&id=4117

[ben03]

sooooo ... he's leaving school after 4 years only to not complete his degree with three months to go. take an incomplete and finish during the summer???

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

 sooooo ... he's leaving school after 4 years only to not complete his degree with three months to go. WoW[/q]

It's pretty standard for seniors to sign as soon as the season ends.  He'll probably take incompletes and come back and finish in the summer.

[Bio '04]

Didn't Danis do that last year as well?

[calgARI '07]

Very common practice.  He will finish up whatever classes/credits he needs to in the summer or at another time.  I hardly doubt he is dropping out of school with two months left.

[mjh89]

yea and so did some guy fron Niagara and a few other guys. McFeeters from Clarkson too i think.

[Brian]

Would this make a player ineligible for the hobey baker award?  I know he doesn't have a shot at it but if a player had a shot to win it, would it disqualify him?

[pfibiger]

Brian,

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Peter Sejna had already played in his first NHL game before he was given Lenny's Hobey Baker award

[calgARI '07]

Yeah, Sejna had played in the NHL when he won it and Danis had played in some pro games last year before the winners were announced.

[mjh89]

Right you are. Sejna only played in one game that season but he did score a goal ... on Patrick Roy I think

[Josh '99]

[Q]mjh89 Wrote:
Right you are. Sejna only played in one game that season but he did score a goal ... on Patrick Roy I think[/q]Correct:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=230406017

[mjh89]

Oh how I miss the nights of looking at those box scores.

[ursusminor]

According to an RPI press release from today, Economakos was just given ECACHL All-Academic recognition for the third time. http://board.uscho.com/showpost.php?p=1883168&postcount=217. I am sure that he has made arrangements to complete his degree.

[calgARI '07]

[Q]mjh89 Wrote:

 Right you are. Sejna only played in one game that season but he did score a goal ... on Patrick Roy I think[/q]

It was actually the last regular season goal Roy gave up in his career.

[RichS]

foolish conclusion on your part. :-}