Alumni in the Pros - Nov '05

[Brian]

Murray had an assist on the first goal of the game and he also had the game winner last night for Cleveland, Iggy had a rough night.  Vesce had an assist on the game winner in his contest also!  Still nothing on Baby, he must have a major injury or he needs to prove himself again.  It seems as though they may have given up on Baby, his playing time and dwindled the last two years.

[2tkCornell]

Ryan Vesce 8th in the AHL in Scoring and 2nd among Rookies.  Hopefully he will get signed by an NHL team after the season and make a jump to the big time next season.  We need some young Cornellian forwards playing in the NHL!

Also, Charlie Cook scored his first goal at a Phantom last night.  Shane Hynes has not played recently since Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry are back with Portland after 15 game stints with Anaheim.  Don't expect him to play much more until one of Getzlaf and Perry are called up.  Still think it was a bad career move on Hynes part to sign with Anahiem, with them having so many power forward prospects higher on the depth chart than Hynes.

Iggulden is around 15th in AHL rookies among scoring getting significant production on the powerplay.  Surprisingly he is not a penalty killer though.

[RichH]

While looking at some UHL stuff, I noticed that P.C. Drouin '96 is with the Fort Wayne Komets, leading them in scoring.  6-11-17 in 15 games.

[Liz '05]

Okay, so these stories of alums doing well has me curious - can I see any of them in Pensacola this season?

Off the top of their heads, does anyone know of any Cornellians on these rosters?  I looked at them, and I see a bunch of ECAC alums, but no one that wears my favorite shade of red.

Pensacola Ice Pilots
Bakersfield Condors (RPI's Nick Economakos is on this roster)
Charlotte Checkers (Jessiman here)
Gwinnett Gladiators (Yale's Dwyer, UVM's Mifsud)
Florida Everblades
Greenville Grrrowl (awful name and some truly bad hairdos)
Pheonix Roadrunners
Augusta Lynx (Clarkson's Scuderi)
South Carolina Stingrays
Columbia Inferno


(Then I looked to see how far away Shreveport is...eek.  I didn't realize it was in the Arkansas/Texas corner.)

[DeltaOne81]

Underhill's still in the ECHL, with the Alaska Aces. Seems to be playing about half their games, maybe a little more.

[Josh '99]

[Q]Liz '05 Wrote:
Off the top of their heads, does anyone know of any Cornellians on these rosters?  I looked at them, and I see a bunch of ECAC alums, but no one that wears my favorite shade of red.[/q]I took a quick look through them, and it looks like you were right.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[Liz '05]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

 [Q2]Liz '05 Wrote:
Off the top of their heads, does anyone know of any Cornellians on these rosters?  I looked at them, and I see a bunch of ECAC alums, but no one that wears my favorite shade of red.[/Q]
I took a quick look through them, and it looks like you were right.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[/q]

:-/  Oh well.  Til Estero then!

[DL]

Looks like Lenny will be starting for Phoenix against the Mighty Ducks tonight.  
http://www.phoenixcoyotes.com/schedules/game_day.php?ID=506
It will be his 2nd start and 3rd appearance (regular season, all losses) against Anaheim.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Darren Leung Wrote:
Looks like Lenny will be starting for Phoenix against the Mighty Ducks tonight.  
 [/q]
Apparently Comcast internet subscribers can watch a webcast of the game tonight at 10:30.

http://www.comcast.net/sports/nhl/

[Josh '99]

[Q]Darren Leung Wrote:

 Looks like Lenny will be starting for Phoenix against the Mighty Ducks tonight.  

It will be his 2nd start and 3rd appearance (regular season, all losses) against Anaheim. [/q]It's looking like it's not Lenny's night against the Ducks, again.  4-0 Anaheim after 2 periods, and the Ducks will start the 3rd with about a half minute of 5x3 power play.  Continuing a theme in Lenny's starts, the Coyotes are getting badly outshot, 23-11 after 2 periods.

In unrelated news, the big story in the NHL tonight is that the Bruins traded Joe Thornton to San Jose.  There's some relevance to this thread, as well, in that one of the players going to Boston was Brad Stuart, who probably was San Jose's best defenseman.  This would seem to make it more likely that there'll be room for Doug Murray to crack the big club, maybe not this year but at least sometime in the not-too-distant future, as San Jose seems dedicated to developing young defensemen (they've got 6 on their roster after Stuart's departure, all under 29, and the fact that two of them are former NCAA players suggests that they're willing to give college guys a shot).

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I was at the Flyers game last night and during one of the commercial breaks they showed an ad on the big screen for the Phantoms which included a scene of Charlie Cook celebrating a goal (not his goal, mind you, but you could clearly read his name on his uni).

Not as good as seeing it in person, but still nice to see him as "part of the team."

[Roy 82]

It is official, Murray has been called up:


>       To replace Toskala on the roster, the Sharks have recalled defenseman Doug Murray from Cleveland.
>       Murray is being called up to the Sharks for the first time in his career. He started the 2005-06 season as one of the alternate captains for Cleveland, appearing in 19 games and scoring a goal on seven assists for eight points with 35 PIM. Murray had the best season of his professional career last year with the Barons by scoring six goals and 17 assists (23 points) in 54 games.
>       The six-foot-three, 240 pound defenseman from Bromma, Sweden was selected by the Sharks in the eighth round (241st overall) of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. Murray played his college hockey at Cornell from 1999-03.
>       Murray is expected to join the Sharks in time for Friday night> '> s game in Buffalo against the Sabres.
>

[Brian]

It's about damn time!  Kickass Murray!!!!

[canuck89]

http://www.sjsharks.com/news/news.asp?story_id=1930

[Al DeFlorio]

And Phoenix sent Boucher down.