Defenseman
Salisbury School (Prep)
6'0", 195 pounds
Toronto, ON
DOB 2/1/1995
Salisbury School boys' hockey page
Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM
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2010-11 Salisbury School Prep 26 2 7 9 --
Welsh becomes the second PSU commit to come directly from the New England prep schools, joining freshman forward/Westminster alumnus Tim Acker. Probably more significantly though, defenseman Brandon Russo graduated from Salisbury following 2009-2010 before moving to the USHL last season.
However, Welsh and Acker do have something else in common: experience in an outdoor game. About two months before Westminster played in the Whalers Hockey Fest, Salisbury defeated Kent 3-0 at Michigan Stadium in one of the games auxiliary to the Big Chill at the Big House. That win was just one of 22 last year for the Crimson Knights as they skated to the Founders League title for the second time in three years. Salisbury proceeded to the New England Prep School Ice Hockey Association open tournament semifinals before losing to Kent, the eventual runners-up.
So what's even better than Salisbury's 22-5-0 record? How about a 9-0-0 record when Welsh registered a point? The goals were the final tallies of a 4-1 win over Williston-Northampton on December 4th and of a 7-3 dismantling of Albany Academy 11 days later.
The Sarnia Sting (5th round, 2011) own Welsh's OHL draft rights, yet another sign of the major junior reality creeping into our lives as we start to go after better and better players. Some projections had him as an OHL second-rounder, and the Sting's head scout believes Welsh "flew under the radar of other teams," allowing his club the later-than-expected scoop. All of which is probably a positive from a Penn State standpoint - his verbal seems to indicate that college is his plan for now. He joins Jack Barre (Dartmouth-bound in 2012) and a number of other as-of-now uncommitted teammates in that route.
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