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Hello and welcome back to Broad Street
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Hockey as we continue our top 25 under
0:06
25 video discussion here on YouTube. I
0:09
am Ryan Gilbert. Joined today with Jacob
0:11
Russell. Going to start off talking
0:13
about two forwards played in college
0:15
last year. Kind of looking for a bounce
0:17
back this next year. But first Jacob,
0:19
how you doing?
0:21
>> I'm good. I'm back.
0:23
The newly anointed prospect expert by
0:25
Steve Shiko. So that's cool.
0:28
No.
0:30
On to another couple guys who
0:32
especially with the way the Flyers are
0:34
currently constructed, I don't really
0:36
know where they would fit in unless they
0:38
were really really good.
0:39
They kind of coming around coming around
0:42
at the wrong time
0:44
with just how many
0:46
forwards but wingers in particular these
0:48
guys um
0:50
are going to have to battle out in order
0:52
to make the Flyers roster anytime soon.
0:53
But
0:54
at the same time, you know, still some
0:56
potential for at least one of these guys
0:59
to make it down the middle. So going to
1:01
be interesting to talk about them.
1:03
Gilbs, how how you doing? I mean I
1:05
didn't really say anything about how I
1:07
was actually doing. I'm doing fine.
1:09
>> When you say how you're doing on
1:10
something like that, it's just like all
1:11
right, talk now. It's like okay Jacob,
1:12
talk now. It's like
1:13
>> Yeah, it's like we just opened the cage.
1:15
>> Yeah, yeah, I'm doing all right. I feel
1:17
like we're in a greyhound race. I feel
1:18
like we're ready we might be might be
1:19
hating a little bit on these two
1:21
prospects.
1:22
We have in the rankings Jack Mertag at
1:24
20 and Cole Cormier at 19 for today's
1:28
video. Of course thanks to our sponsor
1:30
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1:31
They have some odds up for the Flyers
1:33
for this season. Um
1:36
but yeah, these guys 20 and 19. I
1:40
personally had Mertag ranked at 18 and I
1:43
did not have Cole Cormier in my top 25.
1:45
>> Really? Who Who did you have higher than
1:48
that?
1:48
>> It's a bold It's a bold take to have
1:50
there but
1:51
Um let's start with with Jack Mertag
1:53
here. Of course also check out the top
1:55
25 under 25 playlist we have on YouTube
1:58
for the videos we've already recorded.
2:00
And if you're watching this in a few
2:02
weeks, you know, we'll have the whole
2:04
top 25 out by then. But, yeah, Jack
2:06
McBain
2:07
one of those many many second round
2:09
picks last year, 40th overall, was
2:12
drafted. People were saying, you know,
2:13
might be a center, probably a winger,
2:15
definitely a winger after
2:17
this past season, went to Boston
2:19
University as a freshman and scored six
2:21
goals, five assists for 11 points.
2:25
Granted, Boston did not score a whole
2:27
ton. Of course, your boy Ty Madden
2:29
Lawrence played 18 games there, only had
2:32
seven points.
2:33
So, you know,
2:35
a down season for McBain as an
2:37
18-year-old freshman at Boston
2:39
University. But, like you said, I don't
2:42
really know where he fits. Kind of like
2:43
a shoot-first
2:45
middle-six, bottom-six energy winger
2:47
type of guy. Doesn't seem like someone
2:49
that's necessarily going to jump off the
2:51
page and become a guy that really, you
2:54
know, exceeds expectations.
2:56
>> Yeah, I I will say McBain, even going
3:00
back to when he was drafted and the
3:01
Flyers take him
3:03
amongst those three second round picks
3:05
that they had in in the 2025 draft, um
3:10
I didn't really see too much there. He
3:14
played on a really good U18 team, from
3:17
what I can remember, with the States
3:19
that the NTDP team was pretty good.
3:23
And and same with the World Junior team,
3:25
right? They got guys like Cole McBain,
3:27
Will Moore, LJ Mooney, like they all
3:29
kind of went Conrad Fondrick. They all
3:31
kind of went in the same sort of spots
3:34
in the draft.
3:36
Um but they had a a good a good kind of
3:39
connection together, and McBain is one
3:40
of those guys.
3:42
Straight-line skater, going to go to the
3:44
net,
3:45
going to, you know, use his motor,
3:47
really trying to outwork people out
3:49
there. I think is is more so what you
3:51
would what you would hope he would do at
3:53
the NHL level. And that's a guy who
3:55
if if it all clicks, you know, he has a
3:58
18-year NHL career, right? Just as doing
4:00
that. Third, fourth liner, 30 30-40
4:03
points. Um
4:05
It was bad though. It was bad with BU.
4:08
Um and like you said, BU sucked this
4:09
year. They were really like for the
4:10
standards of the program and for the
4:12
guys, the sort of caliber guys that they
4:14
had on the team.
4:15
Um it just wasn't good. They they didn't
4:18
have that sort of uh
4:21
that that Lane Hudson guy saving them,
4:23
that elite elite player that was going
4:25
to drag them through, even like a guy
4:26
like Cole Eiserman.
4:28
Um he's going to be playing right near
4:30
right down the street from me pretty
4:31
soon. Uh
4:33
for the Hammers. Um
4:35
Eiserman
4:36
you know, he didn't even have a good
4:37
year. Under a point per game for a guy
4:39
like Cole Eiserman is just weird. Like
4:41
given his his, you know, kind of his
4:42
draft pedigree and what people thought
4:45
he was going to be. Um but Merzlykin
4:47
yeah, 11 and 35 is rough. That's
4:49
um not the sort of numbers that you
4:52
really want to look at, but you know,
4:54
the Conrad Fondrk, the guy
4:56
I was just talking about, 8 and 25.
4:59
Uh Boivert for Chicago, Sasha Boivert.
5:03
He had 17 and 26, so like marginally
5:05
better, but like it realistically Jack
5:08
Merzlykin getting outscored by Owen
5:09
McLaughlin.
5:11
Do you know Owen McLaughlin? You
5:12
remember Owen McLaughlin?
5:13
>> I I've heard of him, yeah. I don't I
5:15
know I've heard of him, yeah.
5:16
>> The 23-year-old
5:17
uh former seventh-round pick of the
5:19
Philadelphia Flyers.
5:21
Um
5:22
you know, like really not he's in his
5:25
fifth his fourth year of college hockey.
5:27
He's a senior. Um
5:29
It's not necessarily the type of guy you
5:32
want to see
5:34
ahead of your second-round pick, but at
5:36
the same time he did have he he did have
5:38
30 and 38 with North Dakota. But like
5:41
yeah, it it's it just shows you even
5:42
that on its own, you know, that drop-off
5:44
from playing at North Dakota to Boston
5:46
University, you expect to score more
5:48
points. It was just such a bad year for
5:49
BU that all those guys got dragged down
5:51
in the muck and and Merzlykin was one of
5:53
them. He just didn't look
5:55
didn't look special at all, really.
5:57
>> Yeah, and I think as the years go on and
5:59
we see more 18-year-olds go this college
6:02
route, well, really, like you can
6:04
separate the McKennas and the Martones
6:06
and the Hagens and all these other
6:08
18-year-old freshmen going in there and
6:10
becoming point-per-game players in
6:12
college versus someone like Merzlykin
6:14
who, you know, was ranked in the top 30s
6:17
by most most people going into his draft
6:19
year,
6:20
but, you know, doesn't have like the big
6:22
huge frame that Martone does or the
6:23
skill of McKenna or anything like that.
6:26
So, on on a Boston team that did not
6:29
score much last year, that's kind of
6:31
what you're going to see, which just
6:33
adds to being down on him as people
6:36
were, you know, coming out of the draft.
6:37
People weren't too happy with that with
6:39
that pick of the three in the
6:42
in that second round. He was drafted
6:43
ahead of most of those guys that you
6:45
mentioned. He was 40th. Then you have
6:49
Shane Wright Zagi 48th, Will Moor 51st,
6:52
Cole McKenney 53rd,
6:54
Conrad Fondrk, what a name, 50th. So,
6:57
you know, a little bit ahead of those
6:59
guys. His shot really be really seemed
7:02
to be
7:03
his weapon. So, only six goals in 35
7:05
games is a bit worrisome, but Matty
7:08
Campbell had a good article on him bro
7:10
street hockey.com. Check that out where
7:12
he where he talked about kind of, you
7:13
know, his his downswings of the year and
7:16
the the transition to college hockey.
7:18
So, he he's really looking to rebound
7:20
from from a rough freshman season, which
7:22
is exactly what uh Matty wrote.
7:24
>> Yeah, I mean, it is
7:27
I'm not surprised that a freshman had a
7:28
had a down year on a team where a lot of
7:30
freshmen had down years. I mean, that's
7:32
just kind of the nature of the beast
7:33
when you get to college hockey, but
7:35
usually I like to think of the NTDP guys
7:39
as being a a more ready for it Um, by
7:42
nature of their playing against a lot of
7:44
guys that they probably played with, um,
7:47
just a year prior. Um, especially at
7:49
least at least more than the USHL guys
7:51
and and I'd say more than even the CHL
7:53
guys. I think those guys are probably
7:55
the most prepared for it. So, I was
7:57
expecting like uh, you know, nothing
7:59
crazy. I'd say, you know,
8:01
15 to 20 points was kind of what I was
8:03
hoping for out of Murtagh if he got
8:05
going at the level that I thought he
8:08
could. Um,
8:09
and maybe that's even just kind of
8:11
indicative of a ceiling, which is like I
8:14
don't think it's that high. I never
8:15
thought it was that high realistically
8:17
when they drafted him. I mean,
8:19
him and Vin Saggi, I think kind of fill
8:22
They're different archetypes of a
8:23
player, but they'll fill the same role
8:25
for you. Like I I view Murtagh as almost
8:28
like a Nolan Chartier type guy if you're
8:31
looking at somebody for maybe like his
8:35
NHL comparison.
8:37
Um, maybe not the the shot can be a
8:39
little bit better or he can be a bit
8:41
more skilled, but like
8:43
if he's not going to find that gear,
8:46
um,
8:48
he's going to have to transition into
8:49
eventually just doing doing the little
8:51
things and then that's kind of what I
8:53
think Vin Saggi and him kind of
8:56
I It's obviously not over yet. They
8:58
could have big bounce backs in their in
9:00
their sophomore years, but um,
9:02
I I think those types of guys are going
9:04
to have to make a decision on how they
9:07
think it's going to be best to become a
9:08
pro. And I think a lot of people around
9:10
this spot in the in the under 25 um,
9:14
I think they all are going to have to do
9:16
something similar at some point, but um,
9:19
yeah, you know, I don't really know
9:21
exactly what's there. I don't know if
9:23
he's fast at NHL level, you know? Like
9:27
to be a guy who skates and shoots, you
9:29
got to be quick, I feel like.
9:31
>> not He's not Owen Tippett fast. Like
9:32
like
9:32
>> No, he's not He's not going to be Owen
9:34
Tippett off the rushes essentially what
9:35
I'm saying. Yeah. He's not as fast that
9:37
I don't think he's close to really as
9:38
fast as that, but he does a lot of
9:40
little things.
9:41
Um he's good in puck battles.
9:44
I think that'll translate. Um not
9:47
everybody wants to get engaged like that
9:49
so that I I can't just uh
9:51
disregard that completely, but at the
9:53
same time it is kind of a requirement if
9:55
you're a guy
9:56
who's going to score 11 points in 35
9:58
games.
9:59
>> Yeah, and and breaking down I'm looking
10:01
at his game log here from last year. He
10:03
He starting with his third game, he had
10:05
six points in eight games. Six points in
10:07
his first eight games, three goals,
10:09
three assists. Then goes uh from
10:11
November 8th to February 2nd without a
10:14
point. No points. That's I believe 15 or
10:16
16 games. I just counted. And then in
10:20
his final six games, he has four more
10:23
points. So like he had he showed burst
10:25
at the beginning, maybe kind of got worn
10:27
down a little bit, start struggled to
10:29
keep up with the uh the tougher
10:31
competition, but he showed spurts there
10:34
where he can be a point per game player
10:37
at times
10:38
uh over short stretches. Maybe we'll see
10:40
if he's able to keep that going over
10:42
longer stretches as he, you know, knows
10:44
what to expect now going into college as
10:47
a sophomore.
10:49
>> Yeah, and he's not, you know, uh Yukon
10:50
was decent this year. Gets an assist
10:53
against MSU, scores against Colgate,
10:56
scores against Merrimack and and
10:59
gets an assist against Maine. Like it's
11:01
not like he's he's stat padding in games
11:03
where his team's winning by a lot. I
11:05
think he lost in all but one of those
11:07
actually. Um there's a tie in there
11:10
against Colgate where he scored, which
11:11
is funny.
11:12
But
11:13
yeah, it's it's just uh
11:16
I don't know. I think he's one of those
11:17
guys you're going to have to
11:18
if the team's playing well, he'll score,
11:20
but if the team's not playing well, it's
11:22
going to be a lot harder for him to be
11:24
the guy who's scoring.
11:25
>> Yeah, an- another another another reason
11:27
to watch college hockey this year. We'll
11:28
see how Jack McAvoy does at Boston
11:31
University with the Terriers.
11:33
And then Cole Knuble, he went back to
11:35
college last year for one more year at
11:38
Notre Dame. You know, the Flyers didn't
11:40
necessarily want him to go back. Thought
11:42
he might be ready for the pro game. Two
11:45
years ago he had 39 points, 12 goals in
11:48
34 games. This past season, 31 points,
11:51
only nine goals in 36 games while
11:54
wearing the A there for the University
11:57
of Notre Dame. Fourth round pick in
11:59
2023,
12:00
103rd overall.
12:03
Did play seven games with the Phantoms
12:05
scoring one goal and two assists and
12:07
will now be going with the Phantoms
12:08
full-time this season. And as I
12:11
mentioned at the top, I did not rank him
12:13
in my in my top 25. Um
12:16
I I just kind of think like
12:18
he's going to be an NHLer. He'll be a
12:20
fourth liner or a tweener AHL guy
12:23
because of his name, because of his work
12:24
ethic, because of you know, he has that
12:26
stuff, but 5 ft 10 doesn't have
12:29
necessarily a
12:30
a plus shot or skating. It's just like
12:33
another
12:35
I kind of liken him to what Nikita
12:37
Grebyonkin is right now. And we've seen
12:39
Grebyonkin do it in the NHL. So I have
12:42
Grebyonkin up, you know, in in the high
12:44
teens because we don't know what Knuble
12:47
is going to be at the at the pro level.
12:50
>> Yeah, I just I find it funny that he
12:53
fell off your list in general. I was
12:56
always always a lot more of a fan if
12:58
we're doing it on the aggregate of a guy
13:00
like Cole Knuble rather than than Jack
13:03
Mertl cuz I feel like I know kind of
13:05
what he is.
13:07
He honestly plays a little bit like his
13:08
dad except much much shorter
13:11
by comparison,
13:12
which kind of sucks for him.
13:14
But
13:15
>> [clears throat]
13:15
>> the
13:17
the skill set is there and and after
13:19
that 2024-25
13:21
season
13:22
where he was all all Big Ten second
13:24
team,
13:26
he got nominated for the Hobey Baker.
13:28
Um there's a big list of those guys, but
13:31
he did get nominated for the Hobey
13:32
Baker. He's over a point per game for
13:34
Notre Dame, not really known as as a
13:37
hockey school, and that team was pretty
13:39
good
13:40
um
13:41
that year, right? Um with not a lot of
13:43
guys who were drafted. He was the
13:46
catalyst. He led the team in scoring,
13:47
and it looked like he was taking another
13:50
step, and
13:51
like he said, I really I I would have
13:53
liked him to just go to the Phantoms and
13:56
just see what happened, especially
13:57
considering like
13:59
there wasn't really a ton of prospects
14:01
that were there on forward that I think
14:04
they really wanted to look at. Like
14:05
Hunter McDonald was back there,
14:07
Murchison's back there, Bonk's back
14:09
there. You know, you got some guys. I
14:10
mean, eventually Yerechuk shows up. So,
14:12
there's some guys back there who have to
14:14
play on D, but I think forward is a
14:15
little bit more at the Phantoms level,
14:18
especially last year was a little bit
14:19
more just like guys like Anthony Richard
14:21
is out there, guys like Carl Grundstrom
14:25
kind of making his presence felt. So, I
14:27
wanted Canuble the AHL. Eventually goes
14:29
back to Notre Dame and plays for a team
14:31
that is a lot worse because it's kind of
14:34
Notre Dame,
14:35
and that's kind of what they're doing.
14:37
They're just
14:39
like
14:39
they're not going to be a perennial
14:42
contender
14:44
for a national championship, right? So,
14:46
he goes back there
14:48
31 points in 36 games, under 10 goals.
14:52
I don't know. It just feels like he
14:53
didn't learn or grow at all. He didn't
14:55
really make any strides forward. I it's
14:57
not even about the points necessarily
14:59
because when your team's worse, you're
15:00
going to score less, and it's not like
15:02
it fell off a cliff, but
15:05
I don't know. I think it would have
15:06
served him better to go to the AHL,
15:07
especially because when he shows up in
15:08
the AHL,
15:10
I was reading Maddie's other article
15:12
about
15:13
Cole Canuble
15:14
um before this as well, and
15:18
you know, it just seems like he fit in
15:21
pretty well considering, and I think he
15:23
could have just got a whole season of
15:24
that and it
15:25
you know, it it would have it would have
15:28
really helped his development a lot
15:29
more. So now
15:31
it's it's going to be a question mark to
15:33
see what happens with the Phantoms this
15:34
year. You hope he gets a full season in
15:35
and then you can, you know,
15:37
kind of see what he is like as a pro
15:39
player. But yeah, I ultimately don't
15:41
think there's a ton of upside here
15:43
either with Koivula. I just I don't
15:45
know. I think I just like his his game
15:48
um in stretches.
15:50
Uh there there is something about it.
15:52
He's he's just kind of a a difficult
15:54
player to play against at times.
15:57
Uh and and that 2024-25 season with uh
16:01
Notre Dame really really stuck out to
16:03
me. I thought he was really good that
16:04
year.
16:04
>> Mhm. I I will say me leaving him off the
16:07
list entirely is a bit harsh. He
16:08
probably should have been down there in
16:10
the at least the 20s at some point.
16:12
>> Yeah, who do you have at the back five
16:14
like?
16:15
>> Well, my going from 25 down I have a
16:17
Martin Pospisil,
16:19
uh yeah.
16:20
>> Back Westergard, Spencer Gill, Carter
16:22
Rubico, Matthew Guard. I just think they
16:24
they have higher upside than Koivula. I
16:26
don't hate that I except for Pospisil. I
16:28
really I don't see any like that I just
16:30
like that.
16:31
>> This year's second round pick I just
16:32
wanted to throw him on the list like
16:34
same thing same thing with Laczynski.
16:35
That's why I have Laczynski up up at 19
16:37
like
16:38
>> That makes sense. I'm fine.
16:39
>> I just think there's not not a ton of
16:40
upside and I and I wouldn't be surprised
16:42
if we see Koivula play a few games with
16:44
the Flyers this season. Like he his game
16:47
is built for the professional game and
16:50
not going pro last year probably, you
16:53
know, tanked my ranking of him a little
16:55
bit being a bit undersized at 5'10
16:59
um
17:00
and I'm just looking now at his plus
17:01
minus. So went from plus six two years
17:03
ago to a minus 19 last year which was uh
17:07
the second lowest on the team uh tied
17:10
for the lowest among forwards which, you
17:12
know, probably playing the biggest
17:13
minutes against the best opponent so
17:15
that is going to factor in but just
17:18
adding it all up, it's just not
17:20
something I really
17:21
want to see from from a from a prospect.
17:24
I I I want to see that that higher
17:25
ceiling, even if it isn't necessarily a
17:28
a lower floor. Like Knuble's going to be
17:31
going to be a a third, fourth fourth
17:33
line guy for the Flyers if he makes it,
17:35
and those guys are important to have.
17:36
You need to have those energy guys,
17:38
those guys that play the right way, get
17:40
in the corners, are going to forecheck,
17:42
but uh you know, I think it speaks more
17:44
to the depth of the Flyers prospect
17:46
system than it does my view of Koko
17:48
Knuble.
17:50
>> Yeah, I um I think both of these guys in
17:53
Merzlikins and Knuble probably fill the
17:55
same role in the future. I don't think
17:57
either of them are going to have this
17:59
you know, Knuble especially, are going
18:01
to have this season where they pop and
18:04
you think that they can provide some
18:06
sort of top
18:07
six offensive capability for you.
18:10
I just don't think that's there.
18:13
I it's
18:15
with Knuble, I just I don't know. I see
18:17
him just being heavier at the NHL level.
18:19
I just I I don't know if Merzlikins is
18:22
necessarily
18:23
a heavy sort of player rather than just
18:25
sort of a nuisance.
18:27
I think Knuble can really lean on guys
18:31
just a little bit more.
18:34
And I think he could have some some
18:36
utility at the net front maybe in the
18:38
future. He can pass the puck. He's He's
18:39
got some pretty
18:41
pretty decent hands when he's on. Um but
18:44
yeah, it's not like I I think he's going
18:46
to you know, take off here and have like
18:48
if he had like 30 points with the
18:50
Phantoms in a full season, I think that
18:52
would be like a resounding success. Like
18:54
uh for for his first year in the AHL.
18:57
So,
18:58
it is what it is with him and and
19:00
Merzlikins really. They are going to be
19:03
guys who
19:04
I think make the NHL and I think are at
19:06
least capable of playing. They're guys
19:09
like I think I I is what the the sort of
19:11
trap that we don't want a guy like Jet
19:13
Grechenko not to jump ahead to to fall
19:16
into where you're just like, "Yeah, that
19:17
guy can play fourth line anywhere."
19:19
Right? He'll play on my fourth line
19:21
anytime. I think Mertag and and Kanuba
19:23
could fall into that bucket. Uh it's
19:25
just kind of up to them if they can kind
19:27
of evolve their themselves and evolve
19:29
their game. Uh like maybe a guy like
19:31
Scott Laughton did where later on in his
19:33
career he started to play a little bit
19:35
up more up the lineup and he like with
19:37
the Leafs especially, I think with the
19:40
Flyers he was always
19:42
more so best suited as a third line guy,
19:44
but with the Leafs and how their team
19:45
was constructed it made sense like,
19:47
"Yeah, we give him some more minutes,
19:48
you know, he's the
19:50
sixth most played forward on the on the
19:52
team at any given time, right?" And what
19:54
if you're killing penalties, I mean,
19:55
yeah, it kind of makes sense. Be be to
19:57
kill penalties and
19:59
um just kind of be in front of the net,
20:01
be be a nuisance in the corners. I think
20:03
that's kind of what both of these guys
20:05
are going to have to that the the groove
20:07
they'll have to find at the pro level.
20:10
>> Yeah, there'll be those guys that
20:11
hopefully can come in on a contending
20:13
team, be cheap winner center depth
20:15
because one thing I want to mention here
20:17
before Kanuba before we close it out is
20:19
that he did play center with the
20:20
Phantoms
20:21
>> Mhm.
20:21
>> for a little bit according to to Maddie
20:23
Campbell here and you know, he was at
20:24
center to start the year, got switched
20:26
back to wing to try to get his
20:27
production going. So, if he can stick at
20:30
center and add even more utility than
20:32
just being a winger, that can uh only
20:34
help his case to uh to make make the
20:36
Flyers.
20:37
>> Well, yeah, if he if he turns into a
20:39
center and scores 30 points for the
20:40
Phantoms, I mean, now we're trading Noah
20:42
Cates.
20:43
>> Two two two C, yeah.
20:44
>> Well, that's the Noah Cates trade
20:45
sorted. We're doing that, I guess.
20:47
You know, that's that's just the
20:48
difference between
20:50
what the team needs and what they
20:51
currently got, right?
20:52
>> Yeah.
20:53
>> Uh I don't know if that's possible. I
20:55
don't know if he's going to be able to
20:56
do it. Um but I'd like to see it. I'd
20:59
see it with the Phantoms. I'm down with
21:00
that.
21:00
>> like to see it. I would like to see it,
21:01
yeah.
21:02
It'll be interesting to see where these
21:03
guys land in our winter 25 under 25 cuz
21:06
I feel like we could see both of them
21:08
take a big step up. Like if Knuble has a
21:10
good start to the pro year, if Mertag
21:12
starts scoring at the college level, we
21:14
could see them jump up. But
21:16
yeah, hopefully these guys hopefully
21:19
they can find it this this next year.
21:21
Going to need to bounce back from
21:23
you know down college years as Knuble
21:25
turns pro and Mertag goes back for his
21:27
second year at Boston University.
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