Height: 5-9
Weight: 175
Shoot: R
Born: 7 Sep 1946, Dorchester NB
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
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Raiders' Future Came Early (excerpt) • by Bill Verigan • New York Raiders 1972-73 Hockey Program Of all the players in camp, perhaps Jamie Kennedy was filled with the most doubts about making the team. He was 26, older than most, and his brother, Forbes, had been an NHL firebrand who was busted for bouncing around officials. Although Jamie would never say it, others suspect his brother's reputation might have hurt his chances of making the NHL. His nose had been shoved slightly to one side during his seasons in the Eastern League and his confidence had been shoved slightly to one side, too, the result of three fruitless trips to NHL camps. Of all the players in the camp, however, perhaps Jamie wanted a job with the Raiders the most. He called being drafted his "second chance at life". Every time the Raider scouts went to watch the Jersey Devils last season, Kennedy knew they were there, and in a game against Syracuse, he got two shorthanded goals and an invitation to camp. It meant he might not have to do construction work again in the summer and maybe he could spend more time at the race tracks. "But I've been through all this before," he said. "They still consider me an amateur although a guy can make better than $250 a week in the EHL, and if his team makes the playoffs, he can really do well. What I've always wanted is to play in places like Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden though". "I look around and know I might not be there at the start of the season, but wait. I'll be there before the season is over." |
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