Last weekend when I got the opportunity to watch Shattuck-St. Mary's play in the High School Elite League, two players that were ominously missing from the lineup were David Toews and Kelsey Tessier, two of the top prospects out of Minnesota for the 2008 recruiting class(Though I probably wouldn't have known either way, since the billion dollar school can't put names on the back of their jerseys or print numerical rosters.) The reason for their absence was explained as an academic problem. I think most people took this to mean that they had fallen behind in some classes and would miss a few games before returning to the team.
But today is was announced by USHR.com that Toews and Tessier have been expelled from Shattuck for cheating. This puts both players in a very difficult position, because both are Canadian, and Hockey Canada's view of America is only slightly more positive than al-Qaeda's. They don't look too kindly upon players that leave their system for the United States. Hockey Canada has tried to regulate the number of Canadians playing in America and they could make it difficult for Toews and Tessier to play in the USHL.
The best option for these two would probably be to find another prep school that will be willing to take them or to move back to Canadian Tier II hockey. If I had to guess, this dismissal probably decreases the likelihood of Toews and Tessier ever making it to college hockey.
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Pretty huge news. It must have been something pretty aweful, unless SSM has zero tolerance policy. Even then you're probably allowed some mistakes. Yeah, both are up the creek right now.
second offense after an incident at the end of last season.
Toews apparantly got suspended because he studied from too many possible sources. He got a copy of the previous year's exam which was similar if not the same as this year's exam. hmmm!
If this is true it reflects more on the school than David. If David had been as much of a slacker as the teacher who wrote the exam he probably would still be at Shattuck.
"Anonymous" could not be more wrong in his indictment of the school and the teacher; neither does he "apparantly" (sic) have his facts very straight. Sounds like pretty twisted logic to me....
If you are going to post this about toews and tessier than you should get your facts straight im a student at Shattuck and i have known both of them for about two years know and niether one of them cheated but tessier herd of the test we took and just wrote a threw g as it was on ours he didnt bother to read the test but worte those anwsers and toew we are aloud to study off last years test as a study guid and to get the format of the test he didnt bother reading the test but wrote the same awnser that were on the one last year they were on will card from last year and the school was tryign to prove a point and that is why they were expelled so you should get yoru facts right before you print this to make them look bad they are really amazing kids and are going places in life like collage you should never take that away from a kid and let them read what your saying
yWhat this shows more than anything what an IDIOT Coach Ward is for taking back a person of Questionable character as Toews.
WARD GOT HIS ASS kicked by the Jr. Kings. After he gets his ass kicked he's out trying to recruit the player that kicked his ass.
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