Alumni in the Pros: June 2011

McCutcheon fired by Sabres.

[www.kuklaskorner.com]

Sounds like he may have an opportunity to return to coach their AHL team. McCutcheon interview

RatushnyFan
Sounds like he may have an opportunity to return to coach their AHL team. McCutcheon interview

Another story on McCutcheon

General Manager Darcy Regier said McCutcheon will be considered for the Sabres' minor-league coaching job, which opened Wednesday when the Florida Panthers hired former Portland coach Kevin Dineen.

"We have not closed the doors on a different opportunity within the organization for Brian in the future," Regier said.

Design Moulson t-shirt contest.

RatushnyFan
Sounds like he may have an opportunity to return to coach their AHL team. McCutcheon interview

Too bad he didn't take the Clarkson gig before Casey got the nod.

Maybe they focused on '93-'95

Hey those were great years for Clarkson!

Iggulden to play in Sweden.

Iggulden is doing what many Ivy Leaguers did a century ago upon graduation - an extended tour of the Continent. It is impressive how many alums of the past decade are playing pro hockey.

billhoward
It is impressive how many alums of the past decade are playing pro hockey.

Only place that's hiring.

Byron Bitz not tendered a qualifying offer by Florida, and will become an unrestricted free agent.

[www.litterboxcats.com]

Anyone have any information about his health? I think when healthy, he proved himself to be at least an effective fourth liner, so if he's healthy maybe he will be able to catch on somewhere else.

Ronald '09
Byron Bitz not tendered a qualifying offer by Florida, and will become an unrestricted free agent.

[www.litterboxcats.com]

Anyone have any information about his health? I think when healthy, he proved himself to be at least an effective fourth liner, so if he's healthy maybe he will be able to catch on somewhere else.

This is a bummer. I hoped that Bryon would get a fresh look in Florida with new coach Kevin Dineen, who I think would have seen Bitz play in the AHL.

Congratulations to Joe Nieuwendyk on being selected to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with Doug Gilmour and Mark Howe. All are deserving in my opinion. A travesy that Pat Burns got passed over again in the bulders category.

EDIT; I forgot to congratulate the Eagle Eddie Belfour. Congratulations to him too.

Woohoo! Way to go, Joe!

Ryan O'Byrne signed a 2 year, $3.6 million contract with Colorado.

[prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com]

Scrivens signed another 1 year, 2-way contract with Toronto. $600K in NHL, $85K in AHL.

TOR signs goalie Ben Scrivens to a one-year, two-way contract that pays him $600K in the NHL, $85K in the minors.

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) June 30, 2011

[Too soft to start the July version of Alumni in the Pros with this]

Hockey may not be the biggest sport in the US but the trophy is the best known and the trophy road tour, a day for each player and team official, is a great idea. Our son is working at the hockey camp at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid and the Bruins' trainer, Don DelNegro, brought it to the rink yesterday. For a camper to tap his glove on the cup, that was a thrill, Scott says. Plus the Bruins knew how to do a victory celebration right. When our NJ Devils last won, a couple thousand people milled around in a parking lot outside the arena and then got on the turnpike or parkway and went home. But that's living in the Jersey burbs vs. Boston.

[pressrepublican.com]

Cool for your son! How old is he?

Trotsky
Cool for your son! How old is he?

Scott's a rising junior, went to Lynchburg in Virginia (don't confuse with Jerry Falwell's Liberty U in Lynchburg) and then he decided to pick up club lacrosse as well. He doesn't call home often and when he called early in May, I asked him, "Hockey's over, right, and how's lacrosse going?" He says, "[Pause], Oh, I meant to tell you. We won the national club championship." How nice to hear from him.

He went to the CanAm camp as a camper for a couple years, been a counselor there for three years. Pretty nice life, they all stay at the Northwoods School (Mike Richter's alma mater), not getting rich, but okay, whether you earn $1,500 or $7,500 a summer, it's barely a dent in the cost of college tuition. And you get little benefits like being able to tap the Cup and the counselors play pickup against the other counselors.

Our younger son, Greg, is going to be entering the hotel school in the fall and is already psyched for the Cornell-BU game at MSG. He is, however, matriculating at the hospitality school at BU. It is small solace that the dean is a Cornell hotelie Ph.D who I met many years ago when he was the Hobart lax team manager and I was on the sidelines at Hobart covering for the Daily Sun, and everybody got pelted with fish, most of them aimed at Richie Moran. It could be worse than BU: Greg going to Harvard.

The Hotel School awards PhD's? Really?

KeithK
The Hotel School awards PhD's? Really?

What surprises you about that?
[www.hotelschool.cornell.edu]

KeithK
The Hotel School awards PhD's? Really?

[www.bu.edu]
Apparently so. >>> [Christopher] Muller earned a B.A. in political science from Hobart College in 1974 and a master’s, in 1985, and a Ph.D., in 1992, in hospitality management, both from Cornell University

Bill, I hope you're not going to sit with Greg at MSG.

CAS
Bill, I hope you're not going to sit with Greg at MSG.

No. I intend to sit on the winning side. Anyway, he should live his own life. I have not friended him on Facebook and convinced mom not to. (This is where Google+ will make inroads in letting you subdivide your friends so you could, say, let the parents in on a small part of your social network, such the picture they took at the prom but not photos of the following two days at the Jersey shore and the bacchanal that ensued.)

billhoward
Plus the Bruins knew how to do a victory celebration right. When our NJ Devils last won, a couple thousand people milled around in a parking lot outside the arena and then got on the turnpike or parkway and went home. But that's living in the Jersey burbs vs. Boston.

Your thesis statement here is incorrect. Instead of "the Bruins do it right" what you really should have said is "the Devils do it wrong".

Josh '99

billhoward
Plus the Bruins knew how to do a victory celebration right. When our NJ Devils last won, a couple thousand people milled around in a parking lot outside the arena and then got on the turnpike or parkway and went home. But that's living in the Jersey burbs vs. Boston.

Your thesis statement here is incorrect. Instead of "the Bruins do it right" what you really should have said is "the Devils suck".

FYP.

David Harding

KeithK
The Hotel School awards PhD's? Really?

What surprises you about that?
[www.hotelschool.cornell.edu]

Anti-Hotelie bigotry. General academic snobbery. Probably both.

KeithK

David Harding

KeithK
The Hotel School awards PhD's? Really?

What surprises you about that?
[www.hotelschool.cornell.edu]

Anti-Hotelie bigotry. General academic snobbery. Probably both.

Jealousy over decent summer jobs / internships for Hotelies?