Official 2009-2010 Miami Season Thread

[NCAA watcher]

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GREAT story on espn.com about Miami student hockey manager Brendan Burke (Brian Burke's son). Goes without saying how blessed we are to have Coach Blasi and the fine young men he chooses to bring to campus. Makes me proud to be a Miamian!

http://bit.ly/4CuH78

Brendan Burke was killed in a car accident this evening.

[redhawk95]

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Sad news...student manager Brendan Burke, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM and Team USA architect Brian Burke, was killed in a car accident on the way back to Oxford from Michigan State where he was visiting their law school. Brendan was considering applying to MSU and was prominently featured in a story a few weeks back by John Buccigross from espn.com.

Thoughts and prayers go out to the Brotherhood and the Burke family.

[mcfarljd]

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RHM, Reich actually broke Burleighs season shutout mark tonight, he has 5 on the season in half the games that Burleigh had that season.

Sad news on the Burke front, hope the team can keep focus and use that as some inspiration.

[MiamiRedhawks2008]

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First, thoughts and prayers are with the Burke family.

No worries, havent been back there in over a year. I banged my head against a wall one too many times with the clowns over there. Sounds like some people still can't grasp the fact that Miami is a hockey school now.

What else could it be?! Football has 5 wins in 5 years; basketball is never better than .500. There aren't any women's sports that are gonna take the front...this isn't UConn after all and i'm not sure Synchronized Skating counts as a sport. lol. I think hockey's the only thing left. Oh and BTW, they're #1 in the nation.

[sandiegoblkbr]

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Here is the ESPN story that they did on Brendan: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/column...ohn&id=4685761

Condolences to the Burke family and Miami Hockey community.

[umassfan49]

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My prayers got out to Branden's family and the entire RedHawk Hockey community. Also to the family of the passenger in the car who also passed away tonight..just heartbreaking news.

[slurpees]

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Best wishes to both families from BU country.

[Dutchfan]

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I would like to extend condolences from the entire Union hockey family. I'm extremely sorry for your loss.

[sterlippo1]

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thoughts and prayers from BC fans.......

[redhawkman10]

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Thank you to everyone for your kind words they are greatly appreciated. The win last night was overshadowed because of the sad news. He was a great kid and will be missed. He definantly left his impact on the program and many peoples lives.

[redhawkman10]

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First, thoughts and prayers are with the Burke family.



What else could it be?! Football has 5 wins in 5 years; basketball is never better than .500. There aren't any women's sports that are gonna take the front...this isn't UConn after all and i'm not sure Synchronized Skating counts as a sport. lol. I think hockey's the only thing left. Oh and BTW, they're #1 in the nation.

Stay safe over the buddy, we only got 13 inches little less than half of what is heading or has headed your way. If you get any cool pictures let me know!

[redhawkman10]

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RHM, Reich actually broke Burleighs season shutout mark tonight, he has 5 on the season in half the games that Burleigh had that season.

Sad news on the Burke front, hope the team can keep focus and use that as some inspiration.

Well more to your point here. Not sure if you read INCH.com's weekly chat they do over at ESPN sports nation. But one of their writers when asked about Reichard's hobey canidacy said that because Miami plays such a sound team game on both ends they don't have a clear cut hobey canidate. With 5 guys having atleast 24 points and your goaltender facing an average of 20 shots they didn't feel he had to be great for them to win. Well his final point was that Cody hasn't been asked to win a game for Miami yet so he needed to atleast see that to give him consideration. Hope he was watching last night, Cody flat out won that game for Miami last night. Wonderfull performance from him, and again Miami just finds a way to get one goal more than the other team.

Side note, Final for Kalamazoo: Western 7 Notre Dame 2

[RedhawkBandMan]

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Somehow made it down to Oxford from Columbus in the whiteout conditions. Even though I am very happy with the final score, it was a rough game to watch. A lot of holding-my-breath moments, but, as RHM pointed out, Cody came up big every time he was tested, and the d-corps made some spectacular and probably vital blocks as always (especially on a particular 3-on-1 rush).

Found out about Brendan right after the game, like a punch right in the gut. After my own sometimes-scary trek to Oxford a few hours earlier, the tragic news really struck a nerve. My thoughts and prayers are with the Burke and Reedy families.

Tonight is certainly going to be tough for the Brotherhood, as well as for the rest of us who knew or even knew of Brendan. I hope the Miami community turns out in force tonight to show their support for the team, because they're going to need it more than ever.

[IrishHockeyFan]

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The news about Brendan Burke got to many of us after last nights games. My condolences to the Burkes and to the Miami family. I met him a time or two, and while not knowing him well,it was fairly obvious he was like pretty much everything associated with Miami hockey, all class. And he seemed like such a good kid. Thoughts and prayers to everyone he touched.

[redhawkman10]

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Well I saw that coming! Redeagle can I say I told you so?

Bitter sweet win tonight, boys were emotional and that spilled onto the ice in good and bad ways. The good, what an offensive explosion and pure domination in all fazes of the game. Yes they were out shot but Lake didn't really test Connor until the third period. I believe there were 6 different goal scorers ! The bad, too many penalties and they let things get too them too much. Understandably so with everything that went on in the last 24 hours and it didn't hurt them tonight. I am glad no one got hurt and maybe this will light the fire under the offense!

Sour note, if NMU would of won in regulation Miami would of clinched tonight! Oh well clinch at BG friday.