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This year's hockey team started slowly and lost badly to a superior Alumni hockey team. John Grady gave an inspirational speech to the team and parents after the game. Captains Dan Sullivan and Todd Davis helped to change the attitude. The team won the next three games but lost in the finals of the Lawrenceville Tournament to a strong Taft team 3-0. Next the team travelled to Buffalo and the Nichols New Years' Tournament. With strong goaltending from Eric Almon, the team beat Nichols 15-21, Lawrence Academy 15-4 in 01'1, and Canterbury 3-1 to win the tournament for only the second time in ten years.Strong defensive play by Graham Morrell, Paul Mara,and Joe Flammia limited the opposition to only 2 goals a game. Forwards Brian Joyce, Bob Miele, Brett Wegner, Andrew Santonelli and Mike Maturo played well at both ends of the rink. In the game against Lawrence Academy,Tom Flynn scored the prettiest goal in overtime to win the game. Nicholai Bobrov and John Giannacopoulos set up this winning goal with superior passing. The season contained many highlights in January and February and we saw growth from Chris Tashjian, Mike O'Leary, Kirk McKeown, Rory Griffin, John O'Leary and David Witkin. Jake DeBoever came on strong in the goal and Dima Vasiliev played well after recovering from an injury. The team had impressive wins over St. Sebastian's 8-3 and Nobles 9-1. The final record was 20-7-1. We ended up beating every team we played except for Taft who we only played once. Graham Morrell has been elected Captain for next year. Coach Ken Martin
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