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‘Mother Goose’ knows just when to talk, how to motivate on BU men’s hockey team (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-05 11:59:31
(CSTV U-WIRE) BOSTON — "Mother Goose" is seated, leaning back with his arms crossed and swollen under the sleeves of his navy blue T-shirt. He’s got a Sox hat and sweats on — standard issue for hockey
players from this chunk of America. And he wants it to be known that he’s ready to not be so likable all the time.
"Everyone needs to be accountable for everyone else," said Mother Goose, otherwise known as Brian McGuirk. "Last year we got away from that. It
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Notre Dame signs Jackson until 2013 (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-04 05:02:37
(CSTV U-WIRE) SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Coming off a record-breaking season in which the Irish finished 32-7-3, Notre Dame
attempted to ensure the continued success of the hockey program Tuesday, signing coach Jeff Jackson
to a two-year contract extension.
Jackson, who built the Irish program into a national contender in two years, will now be behind the bench for Notre Dame until the 2012-13 season. But if things go as planned, he said, he will be sticking along for much longer than
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Boston College’s most memorable hockey season may now be tarnished (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-03 08:12:35
(CSTV U-WIRE) BOSTON — The BostonCollege
women’s ice hockey
team, fresh off its first-ever Frozen Four appearance, was seemingly on top of the world.
The Eagles had just finished the 2006-07 season with a program-record 24 wins, just 10 losses and two ties, also collecting their second straight Beanpot victory. After making it to the Frozen Four, they were forced out only by a hard-fought 4-3 double-overtime loss to the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Coach Tom Mutch, in
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COMMENTARY: Changes on the ice, but UND hockey will still be good (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-02 12:11:27
(CSTV U-WIRE) GRAND FORKS, N.D. — It has now been three weeks since the Fighting Sioux men’s hockey
team saw their season come to an end in the Frozen Four National semifinals. However, a season that ended suddenly with unfulfilled goals has already given way to thoughts of next season.
Next season can’t come any sooner for Sioux fans. After the season-ending loss, the rumor mill started to flow and it looked like the Sioux would face tremendous losses to the National Hockey League
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Brian McGuirk named BU’s next captain (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-01 12:39:51
(CSTV U-WIRE) BOSTON — The Boston University men’s hockey team stepped away from the 2006-07 season and toward next year’s campaign at Saturday night’s Friends of Hockey Recognition Night, naming junior forward Brian
McGuirk captain of the 2007-08 Terrier squad.
The fourth-line winger appeared in 36 of 39 games this season, scoring once and dishing out four helpers to finish the year with five points. And while the Danvers, ., native may not be the team’s most prolific scorer, his
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Former Harvard hockey captain gets down to business (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-04-30 16:36:56
(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "Angela, you are going to love it," a fellow contestant on "The Apprentice" gushed to former Harvard
women’s hockey
captain Angela Ruggiero upon announcing the project idea for the tenth challenge on the hit reality television series — an idea that would send the three-time Olympian packing.
Already in its sixth season, "The Apprentice" brings together 18 business-minded contestants from a range of backgrounds to duke it
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MacDonald, Taylor to captain Harvard men’s hockey (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-04-29 07:47:36
(CSTV U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When the white smoke went up over the Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard
men’s hockey
team had an unexpected announcement to make: There had been a tie.
For the first time since the 1979-80 season, the Crimson will feature co-captains for the 2007-08 season, as juniors Dave MacDonald
and Mike Taylor
were named the 112th and 113th captains of Harvard hockey.
The defenseman and forward tied twice in voting by their teammates and coaches before
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Porter named captain of Michigan men’s hockey (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-04-28 05:00:57
(CSTV U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Huddled on the dais, the Michiganhockey
team’s departing seniors tore through a final rendition of "The Victors."
The speed with which they sang reflected how quickly their college careers had come and gone.
"By the time you leave, it’s just about too late to realize what you’ve experienced," Michigan coach Red Berenson told the players.
The Wolverines’ seven seniors — captain Matt Hunwick, alternate captain
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North Dakota’s Duncan surprised by college hockey’s top award (AP) 2007-04-27 15:27:29
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — At the school where a nickname controversy has been lingering for years, University of NorthDakota
sophomore Ryan Duncan
watched his nickname change overnight. He went from “Dunc” to “Hobey” after winning college hockey
’s version of the Heisman Trophy.
The Hobey Baker Award winner wants his old nickname back.
“I would rather just be one of the guys,” Duncan said this week while sitting in the stands of the Ralph Engelstad Arena, home to the
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Idalski leaves St. Cloud State to coach UND (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-04-26 08:06:26
(CSTV U-WIRE) ST. CLOUD, Minn. — After one season as an assistant coach on the SCSU women’s hockey team, Brian Idalski has moved on to greener pastures.
Wednesday, Idalski was named the new head coach of the University of North Dakota women’s hockey team, and will formally be introduced at a press conference 3 p.m. Thursday at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D.
"Obviously, this has been a goal of mine, to become a head coach at the Division I level,"
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BU, Cornell men’s hockey to battle at MSG (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-15 00:15:05
(CSTV U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. — It has hosted some of the greatest athletes and athletic events of the last 50 years, living up to its slogan as "the world’s most famous arena." Now, Madison Square Garden will add another classic rivalry game to its illustrious history: A Cornell
-BU men’s hockey
game.
Cornell University and Boston University released a joint statement Sunday announcing the two teams’ rivalry will be revived when the squads face off at Madison Square Garden
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Scherer key in UConn hockey’s turnaround (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-14 03:25:21
(CSTV U-WIRE) STORRS, Conn. — When the buzzer rang on March 16, the 2006-2007 season of UConn hockey
came to a heartbreaking end as the Huskies lost, 3-1, to Army in the Atlantic Hockey tournament semifinals.
For senior captain Matt Scherer, it was the heartbreaking end to a four-year chapter of his life — one that, when it finished, left even the strongest of leaders emotional.
"Even after a little over a month from when we last played [in the semifinals] it still
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Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Eaves inks 2 more recruits (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-14 03:01:28
(CSTV U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin
men’s hockey
team added two more student-athletes to its 2007 recruiting class, head coach Mike Eaves announced Wednesday.
Forwards Patrick Johnson and Sean Dolan will join the six other incoming freshmen who committed back in November 2006, including North America’s top skater, Kyle Turris.
Johnson, the son of current UW women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson, recorded 11 goals and 27 points in 47 regular season games for the USHL
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COMMENTARY: UW women’s hockey dominates once again (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-14 02:44:53
(CSTV U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. — The Badger women’s hockey
team entered the 2006-07 campaign looking to repeat as national champions. They did just that, along with establishing themselves as one of the dominant teams in college sports.
Opening weekend began with a pre-game ceremony commemorating the 2005-06 run which brought Wisconsin its first national title. The Badgers swept Quinnipiac that weekend and went onto begin the season at 13-0-1, extending their unbeaten streak to 26
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Dartmouth’s Jones signs NHL contract (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-05-24 19:28:34
(CSTV U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. — David Jones ‘08, who helped lead the Dartmouth men’s hockey team to an ECACHL regular-season title in 2005-2006 and an Ivy League championship this past season, will forgo his final year of eligibility with the Big Green after signing with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche. The Avalanche announced that Jones signed a two-year contract
with the club on Monday, May 21.
Two factors specifically played a role in Jones’ decision: his standout junior campaign and
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UW women’s hockey shooting for 3-peat (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-01 01:44:13 (CSTV U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin women’s hockey
team looks to win its third consecutive NCAA championship as it enters the 2007-’08 campaign.
One can only be positive about the upcoming Badger season. Wisconsin comes off a 36-1-4 season boasting a 26-game unbeaten streak and returns most of its starters from last season.
Along with that, 5,125 fans attended Wisconsin’s four-overtime victory over Harvard in the NCAA quarterfinals at the Kohl Center in March. The crowd was the more… Read more:shooting
Syracuse’s Gross says swimming cuts a financial decision (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-05 13:24:25 (U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse
officially announced Friday it will cut the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams after the 2007-08 season and add a women’s hockey program beginning in the 2008-09 season.
Syracuse Director of Athletics Daryl Gross
addressed the media on a teleconference call Friday afternoon and said the decision
s were made based on research within the athletic department that concluded Syracuse needed to buy a new facility for the swimming teams — a financial more…
Harvard surprises Eagles in 4-0 shutout (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-07 13:39:53 (CSTV U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sometimes it’s the underdog that has the most bite.
Starting the season with an 0-3 record for the first time since the 1951-52 campaign, the Harvard
men’s hockey team looked like no match for the Eagles.
Then-No. 3 Boston College, which would continue on to the NCAA finals, was the clear favorite over the 16th-ranked Crimson.
"We had a pretty bad start to the year," senior Kevin Du said. "We really wanted to turn the ship around and have a more…
COMMENTARY: Dartmouth seniors led on field, off (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-11 13:00:55 (CSTV U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth students are quick to discover that Big Green athletes have more to offer than their prowess on the field, court, ice or whatever surface on which they might play. The members of the ski team add more to Dartmouth than a national championship; the swimmers add more to Dartmouth than their dedication to two-a-day practices; and the football players add more to Dartmouth than their annual win over Columbia.
The Class of 2007 has assumed a leadership role more…
Okposo to stay at Minnesota for his sophomore year (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-13 13:38:41 (CSTV U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS — Following its March 25 overtime loss to North Dakota in the NCAA West Regional final, the Minnesota
men’s hockey team entered an offseason with the distinct possibility that its top underclassmen wouldn’t return.
And when defenseman Erik Johnson announced he signed with the St. Louis Blues in April, that possibility started to become reality.
But last Wednesday changed that perspective. Center Kyle Okposo opted to come back to the Gophers and, in the process, more…
Gophers’ O’Brien, incoming freshman White taken in first round (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-27 22:45:58 (CSTV U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS — The prestige of past NHL Entry Drafts wasn’t quite there for the Minnesota men’s hockey team last weekend, but that doesn’t mean the results weren’t equally frightening for its Western Collegiate Hockey Association foes.
In fact, the group of current and future Gophers
players snatched up in the 2007 draft in Columbus, Ohio, was just as gaudy as usual.
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Former Dartmouth defenseman Lovejoy ‘07 inks minor league contract (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-27 22:26:43 (CSTV U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. — On Thursday, June 14, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced the signing of former Big Green men’s ice hockey defenseman Ben Lovejoy &lsquo
;07 to an American Hockey League contract
.
Lovejoy explained how he ended up signing with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
"My agent talked to a lot of different teams and he gauged the level of interest around the league," Lovejoy said.
He begins training immediately.
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Hockey at USF celebrates 20th season (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-06-27 22:08:29 (CSTV U-WIRE) TAMPA, Fla. — Obviously, hockey isn’t a sport native to Florida, but the University of South Florida managed to form a team. Each player has a different story, but shares a common goal.
"From the minute you step on the ice you’re going all out," forward Brendon Ramsay said. "You don’t really slow up until you’re off the ice. You are pretty much dead-tired by the time you are off the ice."
The USF IceBulls recently celebrated their 20th anniversary. However, more…
Pacioretty first of seven Wolverines picked (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-02 22:14:58 (CSTV U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Throw out the rankings, the predictions and especially the expectations. When it gets down to it in the sports world, those things tend to have a bark bigger than their bite.
The Michigan hockey team hopes its showing at the 2007 NHL Entry Draft is the just the first of many times it exceeds expectations this season. A record-tying seven Wolverines were drafted in Columbus at the event held on June 22 and 23.
Incoming freshman Max Pacioretty led the way as more…
Utah hockey club to hold open tryouts (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-09 19:14:35 (CSTV U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY — Fresh off its re-emergence as a U club sport, the Utah hockey
team is looking to stock up on talent. A year removed from having to rebuild a hockey team from scratch, the Utes will be holding open tryouts in hopes of improving on last year’s 1-23-1 record. "We expect to be an above-.500 team within the region," said team president Jason Petho. "We’re looking for all players looking to work hard and be successful with the U hockey team." more…
Former Harvard star joins Minn.-Duluth women’s hockey staff (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-09 18:54:02 (CSTV U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY — Fresh off its re-emergence as a U club sport, the Utah hockey
team is looking to stock up on talent.
A year removed from having to rebuild a hockey team from scratch, the Utes will be holding open tryouts in hopes of improving on last year’s 1-23-1 record.
"We expect to be an above-.500 team within the region," said team president Jason Petho. "We’re looking for all players looking to work hard and be successful with the U hockey team." more… Read more:Former
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Former Harvard hockey stars ink deals with Nashville (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-13 15:22:54 (CSTV U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two former players on the Harvard
men’s hockey
team, Ryan Maki ‘07 and Dov Grumet-Morris ‘05, each signed contracts with the Nashville
Predators last week, bringing them that much closer to their ultimate goals of careers in the National Hockey League. After scoring 12 goals and notching 11 assists in 32 games with the Crimson during his senior season, Maki began playing at right wing for the Milwaukee Admirals, the Predators’ top American Hockey League more… Read more:Former
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Goligoski signs with Pittsburgh (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-13 15:15:15 (CSTV U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota defenseman Alex Goligoski made up his mind Tuesday: he’s moving on to professional hockey. In the process, the All-America blue-liner cleared up the one remaining uncertainty surrounding next year’s men’s hockey roster. That’s the good news for coach Don Lucia. The bad news is the Gophers’ top-three defensemen from last season are no longer with the team. Goligoski and Erik Johnson both left with remaining collegiate eligibility, while captain more… Read more:signs
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Former Neb.-Omaha hockey player named new assistant coach (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-10 19:55:03 (CSTV U-WIRE) OMAHA, Neb. — UNO Hockey Head Coach Mike Kemp didn’t have to look far to find a replacement for former assistant Doc DelCastillo, who left last month to pursue a head-coaching job in Alaska.
After spending time as a player
, an undergraduate assistant coach and director of hockey
operations, Nick Fohr was named
the team’s newest assistant coach June 25, joining Todd Jones, who will be in his fourth year as the team’s other assistant coach.
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Michigan’s Porter staying for senior year (CSTV U-WIRE) 2007-07-16 16:01:35 (CSTV U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Exhale Michigan
hockey fans. Kevin Porter
isn’t going anywhere. The rising senior
captain won’t sign with the Phoenix Coyotes this summer according to the NHL club’s official Web site. After the early departures of Jack Johnson and Andrew Cogliano earlier this year, rumors circulated that Porter would be the next to jump to the NHL without fulfilling all four years of his eligibility. Porter announced his intentions while working out at the Coyotes’ more…
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