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God help us if the sport and the NHL draft by wearendhockey
ever went the route of the NBA. One of the reasons I have always liked college hockey was the play was often so much more fundamentally sound than professional hockey. After Jackson came to Notre Dame and I got to watch how he practiced and taught the game I appreciated it even more.
We've mostly been lucky when it comes to losing players early and in the few instances where it happened, I think both parties were generally better off. Kyle Palmieri has been a pretty good NHL player for a decade now but he was not a good presence on a college hockey team, especially one with the style of accountability of a Jeff Jackson team.