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Hockey isn't going to forget about David Carle

By Gare Joyce
Special to Page 2

Thursday, July 3, 2008

David Carle had booked his ticket to the National Hockey League draft weeks in advance. His bags were packed, but he never made it. Carle had been a certain third-round pick as a defenseman, maybe a second-rounder. But just hours before the draft, he sent out a letter to all 30 teams, advising them not to pick him. Two months before, at the end of his senior season at Shattuck-St. Mary's prep school in Minnesota, Carle led his team to a national championship, scoring a goal in a victory over T ...

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