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Goaltender Cory Schneider, making his first NHL start of the season, was brilliant in stopping 45 shots by the Dallas Stars last night at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas.
Unfortunately, his Vancouver Canucks teammates — playing the second of back-to-back games and for the ninth time in the last 14 days — could only score [...]

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Check out the latest edition of ESPN Rise Magazine, which features four members of the Malden Catholic hockey team under the heading of “Recognize Greater Boston Teams That Demand Attention.”
Alex Minter of Peabody, a skilled junior forward with a knack for making things happen with the puck, is one of four Lancers pictured.
He’s second from [...]

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Lost in the hoopla of high school football games and the like last weekend: Boston College freshman Chris Kreider of Boxford had his first college hockey point.
The much-heralded Kreider, a first round pick (19th overall) of the New York Rangers this past summer, assisted on a second period goal scored by Eagles’ teammate Ben Smith.
The [...]

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Chris Bouque of Boxford, who earned his first point as a Pittsburgh Penguin Wednesday night by picking up a power play assist, spoke to the Pittsburgh media today. Here’s an excerpt from PensTV:
Chris Bourque of the Pittsburgh Penguins

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New Bishop Fenwick hockey coach Dan Lynch has added three former Crusader pucksters to his coaching staff.
Dan Mikolajewski, Josh Takis and Chris Garofalo will assist Lynch in his first year on the job. Mikolajewski, Takis and Garofalo each played for Fenwick under former coach Bob Tierney, although all three didn’t play together.
Mikolajewski graduated in 2000, [...]

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Came across a nugget in a recent column by Adam Wodon over at CollegeHockeyNews.com that might be of interest to local puck nuts.
On the subject of Brown University’s head coaching search, Wodon writes: “Billy Gilligan, another former Brown player, was an assistant at Massachusetts before leaving to be a head coach in Europe (Austria). Brown [...]

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Each day that passes makes it look more and more like its going to be a very interesting summer for Marblehead native Cory Schneider.
The Vancouver Canucks today signed former Boston Bruins sieve Andrew Raycroft, presumably meaning the Rayzor will back-up All-World netminder Roberto Luongo - not Schneider.
So where does Schneider, who led his Manitoba Moose [...]

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Andrew Bates of Marblehead, who had a terrific senior season playing hockey at St. Mary’s of Lynn, has decided to take his talents to Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H.
A good-sized forward who skates well and possesses both skills and a physical edge to his game, Bates was accepted into all four prep schools he [...]

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Cory Schneider of Marblehead has been named the Reebok/American Hockey League Player of the Week for the period ending March 29. He went 2-1 in three games with a 1.66 goals-against average and allowed just five goals on 110 shots.
Here’s some video of Cory earlier this season, working with Vancouver Canucks coaches during the [...]

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A long — but certainly exciting — night of college hockey has come to an end. We went from Game 1 of the women’s Frozen Four semifinal at BU’s Agganis Arena a few miles down Storrow Drive to the TD Banknorth Garden in plenty of time to catch Game 2 of the Hockey East semifinals.
There, [...]

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