Archive for April, 2010
Siblings: Joe and Scott Pavelski
With two power play goals, including the gamewinner for the San Jose Sharks over the Detroit Red Wings, plus an assist tonight and BC’s 2010 win over Wisconsin helping ease the pain of the 2006 loss, time for a Joe Pavelski gallery along with a mini-gallery for his brother Scott who completed his freshman season at the University of New Hampshire this year.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Michigan native Matt Nareski of Northeastern University. It is also the birthday of Northeastern’s Rachel Llanes and Michigan native Greg Merrill (previous blog gallery).
Chris Kreider
Chris Kreider has been named to Team USA for the 2010 World Championship. He has already won gold at the 2010 World Junior (U20) Championship in January and the national NCAA D1 championship at the 2010 Frozen Four in April.
A couple of nice articles on Kreider that preceded this announcement – April 12 Salem News and April 16 Middleton.
Previous blog galleries: 1 2 3 4
Miscellaneous
Congratulations to UMass-Lowell River Hawk Carter Hutton – after getting to serve backup duties for a game with the Philadelphia Flyers while on an ATO, he has signed with the San Jose Sharks. (previous blog gallery)
Great move by the NHL Players Association to rename the Pearson Award after Ted Lindsay. The Ted Lindsay Award is the top award an individual NHL player can receive as it is for the “Most Outstanding Player” as voted on by the players. By the way, Gordie “Mr. Hockey Union Buster” Howe does not have any major awards named after him.
Nice story you’ve probably already seen – Brooks Laich stops to help a mother and daughter stuck on a bridge with a flat tire after Game 7 loss.
Maine Black Bear Will O’Neill started his birthday yesterday helping clean Alfond Arena – Youtube video from Maine. (previous blog gallery)
Atlanta Thrashers article on Zach Bogosian (previous blog gallery)
Nice touch – at the end of this Maine cleaning video, you can see that they have the nameplates from former locker occupants in the back of each locker. (And yes, I’m going through a bunch of saved URLs in no particular order.)
Stephane Da Costa will be playing for France at the Worlds (previous blog galleries 1 2)
Rookies Matt Duchene, Jimmy Howard and Tyler Myers are up for the Calder Trophy.
Ben Scrivens
The Toronto Maple Leafs announced the signing of Cornell goaltender Ben Scrivens yesterday. Toronto Star article.