Joe Yannetti coached hockey phenom Bobby Carpenter at St. John’s Prep and like everyone else who followed the sport in the US, Yannetti knew in advance about Carpy, who became the first high school skater to jump from the high school ranks to the National Hockey League.”I saw Carpenter play just once when he was in junior high. It was a game against Beverly at the Peabody rink,” Yannetti recalled. “Lennie Woodman had a couple of kids at the Prep and said I should go see Carpenter. He said there was another kid on the Peabody team who might be interested in the Prep? Jimmy Geraghty.”That was 30 years ago, Yannetti said, speaking with the experience of a talent scout for Winnipeg, Phoenix, and Toronto.”I can still recall Carpy winning the opening faceoff to Geraghty on the right wing,” Yannetti said. “Bingo. A goal. The next faceoff, same thing. It went to Geraghty. He passed it to Carpy and he scored. It was 4-0 after one period and I left.”I saw Lennie next day at our practice and said to him, ‘You didn’t tell me the whole story. You said Carpy was pretty good. You didn’t tell me he was incredible. And the Geraghty kid was a helluva player, too,'” Yannetti said.Geraghty is now a member of the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame Committee. The committee held its induction ceremonies for 2012 last Wednesday at Lombardo’s in Randolph. Former Boston Bruins star Rick Middleton headlined the Class of 2012.Carpenter was a pioneer for American high schoolers who followed with big time draft numbers. He revolutionized the drafting process and played 18 years in the National Hockey League, winding up in the US Hockey Hall of Fame.Geraghty, Carpy and John Hanlon were a youth hockey line in Peabody who led the peewees to a 10-year-old state championship, and played together at a number of levels.Carpenter was always projected for stardom.”All three kids were superstars at the 9th-grade level and played on youth teams, mostly the North Shore Raiders,” former Salem State, Yale and Vermont coach Mike Gilligan said. “There wasn’t anything Carpy couldn’t do, and Geraghty was right there with him. He wasn’t blessed with Carpy’s speed, but he was a little bulldog and would always get there, He was a terror around the net. Put the pass on his stick there and he’d get it in the net. You could count on him.”Carpy was locked up for the Prep, and the same thing for Hanlon at Bishop Fenwick. He was the family’s fifth sibling to attend Fenwick, where he became a legend.”Our greatest player ever,” former Fenwick coach Bob Tierney said. “He was our water boy and stick boy in the eighth grade and played on our power play as a freshman.”So great,” Tierney said, “that we retired his jersey when he was in high school. How often have you ever heard anything like that?”Tierney said in the early ’80s Peabody, The Prep and Bishop Fenwick all qualified for the Garden.Geraghty’s Peabody school record for points still stands over 30 years later.”The thing I remember is playing against Danvers before about 16,000 in the Boston Garden and losing in overtime,” Geraghty said. “We played The Prep once, facing Carpy, and they scored a couple of 5-on-3 goals and that was the end of us. They had a bunch of Division 1 players. We had a great team, too. It was fun to play in that era.”Nowadays he’s an executive director at Morgan Stanley.He annually feeds 1,000 Westford (Mass.) seniors on Thanksgiving at the Westford Academy cafeteria.An injury limited him to two years of college hockey at Brown.Nonetheless, he still got a tryout with the Hartford Whalers.”While I was in Hartford I got a call from Peabody Kidder and decided I’d better take it. I couldn’t operate on the ice like the old days,” Geraghty said.He grew up on Veterans Drive in South Peabody. He was at Artie’s Lunch in Peabody a few weeks ago and had the time of his life, meeting his old friends. He was supposed to get home to Westford at 11 a.m. and was still at Artie’s at noon.He even ran for state rep as a 21-year