Love that our 2020-2021 captain in homegrown. Ridgefield. Cav needs to keep more talent in-state. And there's tons of it.....Spencer Knight? Tyce Thompson? Jack Badini (father is a UConn '85 grad, but can't fault the kid for going to Harvard ;-) ? Cooper Moore?
If your talking about CT kids currently playing NCAA the list is much bigger then that. Patrick Harper and Sam Tucker at BU, Ben Solin at Harvard, Alex Mella and Billy Cattabino at N’Eastern, John McDermott at Providence, Craig Puffer, Alex Esposito and Matt Beck at UVM, Drew Hickey and Eric Esposito at UNH. All those guys are just the Hockey East ones in addition to Phil Kemp at Yale, there’s 2 Greenwich kids on Norte Dame, Mike Lee at Sacred Heart I believe was up for the Hobey, Quinny has a few I mean you’re exactly right the talent is here.
All those mentioned were just actual CT residents. When you throw in the kids that prep in state at Avon Old Farms, Choate, Brunswick, Salisbury, Westy etc and then all the kids that played juniors at Mid-Fairfield and for the CT Oilers I mean the list is endless. All those teams produce a TON of high end D1/even NHL level talent so we just gotta start grabbing our fair share. I have confidence once we have a decent facility to show we will do just that.