Word: reycroft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Final Note: Brian McCutcheon of Elmira, a Division III school, will take Lou Reycroft's place as hockey coach at Cornell next year...Special thanks to Harvard Assistant Sports Information Director Frank Cicero for his help throughout the year...
...Ithaca. That's the home of Harvard hockey hatred in the world. That's where the Crimson bumped off Cornell, 6-3. The Big Red was dead this year: the team didn't qualify for the ECAC playoffs and Cornell Coach Lou Reycroft quit. Junior Joe Nieuwendyk, the ECAC MVP and the Red's first-line center, elected to skip his senior year and jump to the Calgary Flames...
Cornell's season is over. For Reycroft and his returning players, next year will be a time to rebuild the Big Red machine. But the team will have to do it without Nieuwendyk, who has elected to pass up his senior year--and the remainder of his junior year--to join the Calgary Flames...
...Reycroft noted that he has a strong recruiting class coming to Ithaca next year. He thinks the freshmen and sophomores on this year's team have improved over the year and should be ready to lead Cornell back up the ECAC ladder. Even without Joe Nieuwendyk...
...Nieuwendyk is the best college hockey player anywhere," Reycroft said. "But there are 19 other guys on this team. We've won without him before. It can be done...