One person's loss is another person's gain, Frattin was dismissed from the team and Knight was asked to come this season instead of next, so the Fighting Sioux will bring in the highly touted and was drafted in the fifth round by the Florida Panthers in this summer's draft.
Pack your bags, Corban Knight, you’re moving away to college in less than 24 hours.
That’s the message that the UND men’s hockey recruit received on Friday morning after he quickly made it through the admissions process and was finalized as the replacement for dismissed forward Matt Frattin.
Knight, a High River, Alta., native, planned to spend the 2009-10 season with the Okotoks Oilers in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, but was informed on Wednesday night that plans might be changing.
UND was left with 13 forwards after Frattin was arrested for driving under the influence early Wednesday morning — his second criminal charge in two months. He won’t play for the Sioux this season.
Instead, the Sioux will look to an 18-year-old who committed in January and graduated from high school this spring.
“I’m definitely very excited,” Knight said. “I definitely think I’m ready. I came up to North Dakota about a month ago and got to meet a lot of the guys and be around the campus. I feel like I’ve become a lot stronger and I’ve matured mentally and physically over the summer. I have no doubt I’ll be able to take the step.”
Knight said that after last season — one in which he piled up 72 points in 61 games and was named AJHL rookie of the year — he hoped that he would be headed to UND. It was decided, at that time, that he would go back to Okotoks for one more year though. [Grand Forks Herald]
Oh, these kids. "I've matured mentally over the summer." That's a little fast, there, sweetie.
ReplyDeleteGreat opportunity for him!