Alumni in the Pros -- Dec 2005

[jtwcornell91]

Mike Knoepfli has apparently played in all 25 games in his first pro season with Geneve-Servette in the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation, with 2 goals, 3 assists, and 4PIM to date:

http://www.geneva-hockey.ch/Equipe/Joueur.php?id_type=-1&id_joueur=67&position_courante=10&saison_courante=2&buffer_saison=2

He also got a mention in the Servette preview on the website of "my" club, SCBern, which referred to him as "practically a foreigner" (Swiss clubs are limited in the number of non-Swiss players they can have, but dual citizens like Mike (and Andre Doll '96, who played in Lugano in the 1990s) don't count as foreigners.):

http://www.scbern.ch/article.php?sid=950

Can I just say again how glad I am he didn't end up in Fribourg?

[jtwcornell91]

Look who else is playing in Switzerland (and for SCB, no less):

http://www.scbern.ch/perrin.php

 ::twitch::

[cbuckser]

Victor Chi reports in the San Jose Mercury News that Doug Murray will dress for tonight's Sharks-Sabres game, which will be Doug's NHL debut.  The game begins at 8pm EST.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/hockey/nhl/san_jose_sharks/13308062.htm

[Pete Godenschwager]

[Q]Look who else is playing in Switzerland (and for SCB, no less)[/Q]

Good lord, those jerseys make the Nike swoosh look classy  ::twitch::

[jtwcornell91]

Yes, there's a lot of advertising on European sports uniforms.  At least the hockey sweaters still feature the club logo more prominently than the sponsor logos, which doesn't seem to be the case for English soccer jerseys.

On the positive side, there are no TV timeouts.

[redice]

It looks like Doug will play his first NHL game :-)  in the same building as his last Cornell game  :`(

[ben03]

Doug is wearing #41 for his debut v. the Sabers and is so far a +1 on the night.
2-0 Sharks early 1st period.

[Rita]

murray a +2 as the sharks lead 5-0 towards the end of the 2nd period.....

[ben03]

Doug is currently in the box for roughing and a cross check  after almost going with Gaustad late in the second. Some things never change :-D
Sharks are up 5-0.

[Rita]

and now has 4 pims to his name...  cross-check and roughing... I tuned in after the penalties, so i don't know what the sabres did to get under doug's skin....

[ben03]

he threw a few random cross checks to the back of a Saber after the whistle and Guastad took exception to a rookie giving his teammate crap. pretty standard stuff.

[Rita]

interview with Doug on the sharks audio feed available for FREE at nhl.com...
coming up soon....

[Rita]

pretty std. stuff in a 3 min interview.....doug's goal tonight is to keep the adrenaline under control... he didn't get much sleep last night .. and hopes his host family (from when he first moved the the states??) will be able to watch him tonight.....

in the lead in they did mention that he is from cornell......

[Dianne 99]

Rita, you beat me to it. :-) I heard the interview on the radio as I drove home from work.  I now have some motivation to get down to SJ for a game...

[bhan]

what is the record for the most cornellians playing in the nhl at the same time?