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Article: Gill, tall and talented, grows into hockey star
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 27, 1996
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BOLTON -- He's 6 feet 7 inches tall, plays tough defense and is a
team captain at Providence College. No, Hal Gill isn't a member of
his school's basketball team. He's a hockey defenseman and a draft
pick of the Boston Bruins, who can't wait to get a peek at him in
training camp next fall.
Jean Ratelle, a former Bruins star who scouted Gill at Nashoba
Regional High, never had to skate against a defenseman as tall as
Gill during his National Hockey League days. "Six-foot-3 or 4 were
the tallest," he recalled.
There are approximately 2,000 players playing professional hockey
in five leagues based in the United States, including 640 in the
National Hockey League. Only two of those players, ...