Blair thinks he has a chance, but he admits that his experiences in college aren't always uplifting.
"When I play a game here--and it's not nice to criticize a team or a school--but when a kid from Dartmouth comes down the wing and pumps a puck by you, you wonder what Mike Bossy'll do to you," Blair says.
"My adjustment will be that the players can shoot the puck harder and get the shot away quicker, which means you have to be in position that much quicker," Blair says. "If you're lazy, there gonna put the puck by you. But people seem to say my style of stand up and come out is more fit for the NHL than the college game."
Often in the past season, as the Crimson has sped to eight-and nine-goal victories, passing the time has been Blair's biggest concern.
What does Blair do when the offensive machinery of the 1985-86 Crimson gets in gear and leaves him a lonely figure at one end of the rink?
"I watch the game," he says. "I pay attention to how we move the puck on the power play. I look at people in the stands. And I clean the ice. Then I think about what I'm going to do after the game. What I'm going to do next week.
"You wonder what everybody thinks of about you standing down there all by yourself."