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The two best hockey players to ever come from the Springfield Area were Steve Pallazzi from Agawam and Scott Abrahamson from Wilbraham. Pallazzi fell off a roof while working for his family business and broke his back ending his career at 18 and Abrahamson, the highest goal scorer in High School Hockey after only two years, also said to be the most "tenacious fore checker and goal scorer his coach John Kennedy stated He had ever seen", broke his neck in a freak accident after his Junior year of High School. Both of these players would have and were actually drafted by the Bruins. Pallazzi never played again while Abrahamson played for New Hampshire College but was never the same after the rods and plates were placed in his neck. I have spoken to both Pallazzi who played for Gary Dineen and the Springfield Olympics And Abrahamson. Abrahamson said he never should have stepped foot on the ice again but couldn't let it go. He also said he was never the same because his first objective in the game went from getting the puck and scoring to protecting his neck. He regrets taking a spot on the team away from someone who could have given it his all. I would have liked to see what these two would have become if tragedy did not take them down. By, Former Sports Writer