Alumni in the Pros Dec. '04

LeNeveu had 38 saves on 40 shots but lost to Cleveland. The game was decided by a 16 round shootout (Lenny stopped 13 of 16) Murray didn't play again, I assume his hip is still bothering him.

Nice article on Vesce

[www.collegesports.com]

Anybody want to take a trip to Angleholm, Sweden?

In today's "sports transactions:"

"Toledo Storm--Announced F Sam Paolini has been returned to the team from Utah of the AHL."

He's not yet an alum, but I didn't know where else to post

on Moulson and the Pens

[www.hockeysfuture.com]

[Q]Chris 02 Wrote:

Nice article on Vesce

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Awesome. 2nd in league in scoring, top team in the league.

same kind of story...this time on Hynes and the Ducks

[www.hockeysfuture.com]

Murray saw his first action in quite as Cleveland beat San Antonio, 3-2. He assisted on a powerplay goal early in the first period and got a 5 minute major for fighting in the middle of the second.

Bâby must have been feeling Murray's vibe, he too had a fighting major last night!

I'm a bit out of touch with who's where and what the team's respective website is. Anybody got a rundown with links?

Steven Bâby is with the Chicago Wolves (AHL)
Doug Murray is with the Cleveland Barons (AHL)
David LeNeveu and Jean-Marc Pelletier are with the Utah Grizzlies (AHL)
Try [www.theahl.com] for starters for the above.

Vesce is with Rogle (Swedish Elite League)
Try [www.swehockey.se] for this league, though you might need a translator.

Matt Underhill is with the Mississippi Sea Wolves (ECHL)
Greg Hornby is with the Florida Everbaldes (ECHL)
[www.echl.com]

Joe Nieuwendyk is still with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL)
[www.nhl.com]

Ben Wallace is with the Odessa Jackalopes (Central Hockey League)
Travis Bell is with the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs (Central Hockey League)
[www.centralhockeyleague.com]

Some more old news on a guy who played for the 1970 Championship team

[www.echl.com]

Aw-sum, thanks

Shane Palahickey is also on the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs (Central Hockey League).

Other former Cornell hockey players playing professionally:
Krzysztof Wieckowski plays for the Bakersfield Condors (ECHL). (He is currently on the 30-day IR, courtesy of a Dale Purinton elbow that caused head and neck injuries.)
Sam Paolini plays for the Toldeo Storm (ECHL).

Mike Rutter plays for the Odessa Jackalopes (Central Hockey League).

Brad Chartrand is an unrestricted free agent.

Kent Manderville plays for Timra IK (SEL).
Jason Elliott plays for SC Bietigheim-Bissingen (Bundesliga; somewhere below the German Elite League)

A friend of mine tipped me off to this little tidbit, which many of you have probably already seen:

[cornellbigred.collegesports.com]

Let the "hell of a kid, hell of a player" remarks commence.

Funny thing you said "hell of a kid, hell of a player" because while I was reading it, I was thinking, look how far he has come!

I lived with him, Bâby, Murray, and Gartman during our freshman year on West and Sam was not always a hell of a player. Hell of a kid, hell of a worker, but during his freshman year he was probably the worst skater I've seen play for Cornell (think Happy Gilmore--and yeah, I know, I haven't been around for long). He was the guy that would put a nasty puck-through-the-defenders-legs one-on-one move, maybe score, but then go crashing into the back boards during practice--it was ugly. You could always see Murray, Bâby, and Sam doing shuttle runs in the court yard of Boldt...I think it was a stroke of genius to get Sam living with Bâby. It's too bad Murray didn't live with a skater that he could have influenced. Sam definitely panned out.

Hehhehheh. I know, I know, "8 games, no goals, gonna be cut..." I remember freshman year.

Check out the box score for the Cleveland Barons last night. Murray got the game winning shoot out goal!

Good article about the Baron's game last night, "Murray gets his shot, helps the Barons win"

[www.cleveland.com]

I should've braved the weather and gone to the game!

Here is some more on "Murray's Move"....

[www.clevelandbarons.net]

[www.clevelandbarons.net]


I can't wait for Doug Murray Bobblehead night!!

This was posted in the Underhill article thread, but reposting here:

[www.echl.com]

The latest on LeNeveu and Pelletier in Utah (AHL):

On 12/22, Lenny stopped 28 shots in a 4-2 win, 2 days after Pelletier allowed 6 goals on 36 shots in a 6-1 loss.

Their stats for the season so far:

LeNeveu: 5-12, 2.92 GAA, .907 sv%
Pelletier: 4-7, 4.09 GAA, .885 sv%


In the ECHL:

Matt Underhill had 48 saves, allowing only a power play goal, in a 4-1 Mississippi win on Sunday night. Next week, I'm going to go to a Toledo/Dayton game. Sam Paolini of course plays for Toledo, and UNH alum Mike Ayers is Dayton's goaltender.

[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:
... UNH alum Mike Ayers is Dayton's goaltender.[/q]
UHN, UHN, UHN, UHN

No it's not, no it's not



I try not to use it because I feel like I'm stealing glory. I had nothing to do with that...

Very funny though

[Q]atb9 Wrote:

No it's not, no it's not



I try not to use it because I feel like I'm stealing glory. I had nothing to do with that...

Very funny though[/q]

Neither did any of us. That's the beauty of it. They did it all by themselves

Very good point...I wasn't there to see it

Final 2004 update:

On Tuesday, LeNeveu stopped only 27 of 33 shots in a 6-0 loss to Manchester. Last night, Pelletier started for Utah against Hartford and had 25 saves in a 2-1 loss.

In the ECHL, Matt Underhill had 35 saves for Mississippi Wednesday night in a 5-2 loss to Reading. He did not start last night. For the season, he has a 5-5 record (plus 1 shootout loss and 2 OT losses), a 2.89 GAA and a .916 save percentage.

Toledo lost back-to-back games on Thursday and Friday nights (1-6, 3-4). Sam Paolini had an assist in each. In 26 games played so far this season, he has 8 goals and 18 assists for 26 points. He leads the team in goals, assists, and points. Interesting side note: next Saturday, on the same night Cornell plays Harvard, Paolini and the Toledo Storm will take on old foe Tyler Kolarik and the Dayton Bombers. (In their previous two meetings this season, Toledo won 6-3 and 5-3. Paolini had a goal and 2 assists in the first game, and Kolarik had a goal in the second.)

LeNeveu seems to be hurt as his team called up another goaltender and he wasn't dressed for tonights game against the wolfpack.

[Q]Jacob '06 Wrote:

LeNeveu seems to be hurt as his team called up another goaltender and he wasn't dressed for tonights game against the wolfpack.[/q]

The goaltender that Utah called up is Frank Doyle, who graduated from the University of Maine at the end of last season.

I was at both games, and as far as I know, Leneveu wasn't even there, let alone dressed.

JMP, to his credit, kept both games very close... the first one was 2-1 Wolfpack, and JMP was one of the 3 stars of the game; the second game was 2-2 going into the third period, but three rather spectacular Wolfpack goals later...