Yes, he did play out the string. My bet is he'll play somewhere next year for money as well.puckbreath wrote: Regarding Serratore, did he play there ?
With the number of opportunities there are all over the world in pro hockey, I don't think it is far fetched to say most college players end up getting paid to play. How much and for how long is obviously going to vary significantly. Most of them certainly aren't going to make enough to retire on... that's for sure.
It would be a gigantic task to go over all the players and see how many actually played for money after college. Even going back and doing recent Gopher teams is a bit of a pain.
Just out of curiosity, I took one roster of Gopher hockey (2009-2010... not a great team by any means) to see what happened after they left school:
Barriball - AHL
Birkholz - AHL/ECHL
Budish - AHL/ECHL
Carman - AHL
Cepis - ECHL
Fairchild - AHL/NHL
Fischer - ECHL/Euro
Flynn - AHL/Euro
Hansen - AHL
Helgeson - AHL
Hoeffel - AHL
Kangas - ECHL
Kremer - No pro hockey
Larson - No pro hockey
Leddy - NHL
Lofquist - Euro
Lucia - AHL
Matson - AHL/ECHL
Joe Miller - No pro hockey
Ness - AHL/NHL
Patterson - AHL/CHL
Sacchetti - Euro
Schack - No pro hockey
Schroeder - AHL/NHL
Wehrs - No pro hockey
White - Euro
Over 80% (21 of 26) of a below .500 college team went on to play some form of pro hockey. Obviously a very small sample and it won't reflect every school out there. Good luck to anybody out there that has the time to tackle the bigger picture.
