Nick Fotiu, the first born-and-raised New Yorker to play for the New York Rangers, began his hockey career as a teenager playing roller hockey in the playground at PS 46 in South Beach, while still at New Dorp High School.
Self-motivated and largely self-taught, he wound up playing two seasons in the World Hockey Association and eight more in the National Hockey League, scoring 64 career goals and skating in two Stanley Cup Finals.
Class of 1996