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Who is the most famous person who once played hockey for "your" school, and what accomplishments, in all walks of life, caused this fame?

Lakers Coach Phil Jackson went to school at the University of North Dakota and in past interviews he mentioned North Dakota as a Hockey School and I recall that he either played intramural hockey at UND or played pickup games at UND. Anyway like most UND alumni he played some hockey and is a UND hockey fan and is able to somewhat intellegently discuss hockey when asked.

Check out the interview in the middle of this article. Kobe and Phil discuss the hockey game and the rest of the team is clueless. Kind of funny actually.:)

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/laker...m-usas-victory-over-canadian-hockey-team.html

Also have heard that Phil Jackson and Scotty Bowman are friends.
 
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Lakers Coach Phil Jackson went to school at the University of North Dakota and in past interviews he mentioned North Dakota as a Hockey School and I recall that he either played intramural hockey at UND or played pickup games at UND. Anyway like most UND alumni he played some hockey and is a UND hockey fan and is able to somewhat intellegently discuss hockey when asked.

Check out the interview in the middle of this article. Kobe and Phil discuss the hockey game and the rest of the team is clueless. Kind of funny actually.:)

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/laker...m-usas-victory-over-canadian-hockey-team.html

Also have heard that Phil Jackson and Scotty Bowman are friends.

both hippies, makes sense
 
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Who is the most famous person who once played hockey for "your" school, and what accomplishments, in all walks of life, caused this fame?

Football:
Dwight Eisenhower - West Point
Byron (Whizzer) White - University of Colorado
Gerald Ford - University of Michigan
Ronald Reagan - Eureka College
Pat Tillman - Arizona State
Basketball:
Bill Bradley - Princeton
Hot Rod Hundley - University of West Virginia
Kevin Johnson - University of Houston
Barack Obama - Occidental College
Baseball:
George Herbert Walker Bush - Yale
Swimming:
John F. Kennedy - Harvard

Plenty of alumni and fans in general can name famous athletes who attended their school, and these athletes participated in a variety of sports, including hockey. Why not name a few?
Your school sure has a lot of names.
 
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Your school sure has a lot of names.

And no hockey players on the list...


Osorojo,

Let me ask you a question in all seriousness. Wouldn't you expect the most successfull hockeyplayers to be NHL players? If they are successful enough they played a long career and retired.

At UVM the most successfull hockey player is Martin St. Louis.
 
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Forget going to the comedy club, just sign on here and do a search for Bear Red's posts! :D

But, on the topic, I have no idea about RPI, aside from our NHL players.

How's this for comedy?

Ken Dryden:

Cornell -3 years starting goalie, graduate with history degree
1.59 goals against average
.939% saves
76-4-1 W-L record
NCAA championship sophomore year

NHL - 8 seasons (off and on) - 397 games
2.24 goals against average
258 wins, 57 losses, 74 ties, 46 shutouts
1971 - Conn Smythe Trophy (full time law student at McGill during this year)
1972 - Calder Memorial Trophy
Vezina Trophy five times in eight year career
Stanley Cup six times in eight years
NHL Hall of Fame 1983
President of National Hockey League Players' Association
President of Toronto Maple Leafs

Author of five books
T.V. commentator
Member of Parliament
Minister of Social Development
 
Re: bragging rights

How's this for comedy?

Ken Dryden:

Cornell -3 years starting goalie, graduate with history degree
1.59 goals against average
.939% saves
76-4-1 W-L record
NCAA championship sophomore year

NHL - 8 seasons (off and on) - 397 games
2.24 goals against average
258 wins, 57 losses, 74 ties, 46 shutouts
1971 - Conn Smythe Trophy (full time law student at McGill during this year)
1972 - Calder Memorial Trophy
Vezina Trophy five times in eight year career
Stanley Cup six times in eight years
NHL Hall of Fame 1983
President of National Hockey League Players' Association
President of Toronto Maple Leafs

Author of five books
T.V. commentator
Member of Parliament
Minister of Social Development



Who cares about some foreigner, who came to America and denied an American the eduction they needed to succeed. Wouldn't it be a lot better if American tax money was spent to educate American kids?
 
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Wow, how'd you manage to restrain yourself for 29 whole posts? Happy now?
:rolleyes:

I do a lot of fishing. If you give a fish enough time he will take the bait and run with it. That's when you set the hook. Check a few of the preceding (and probably some of the following) posts and you will observe some of the fish flopping around on the hook.
BTW: This will work time after time, even on the same fish!
 
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I do a lot of fishing. If you give a fish enough time he will take the bait and run with it. That's when you set the hook. Check a few of the preceding (and probably some of the following) posts and you will observe some of the fish flopping around on the hook.
BTW: This will work time after time, even on the same fish!

The best all around fishermen do it with such finesse, that they have little green reps under their names. And, if you haven't gotten someone on here so **** mad they got banned when they went on an enraged rampage, you ain't squat. otherwise, you are just a fishless troll.
 
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I do a lot of fishing. If you give a fish enough time he will take the bait and run with it. That's when you set the hook. Check a few of the preceding (and probably some of the following) posts and you will observe some of the fish flopping around on the hook.
BTW: This will work time after time, even on the same fish!

Do you talk to the fish about how college athletes are a waste of space in the classroom and take hard earned taxpayer money away from kids who want an education instead of just to play sports? Do they talk back to you?
 
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The best all around fishermen do it with such finesse, that they have little green reps under their names. And, if you haven't gotten someone on here so **** mad they got banned when they went on an enraged rampage, you ain't squat. otherwise, you are just a fishless troll.

And off come the gloves!!
BTW, in this thread MN's bragging rights start & end with Happy. :cool:
 
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Do you talk to the fish about how college athletes are a waste of space in the classroom and take hard earned taxpayer money away from kids who want an education instead of just to play sports? Do they talk back to you?

What about the fish that shouldn't be in schools? :D
 
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What about the fish that shouldn't be in schools? :D

He can't talk to them, they already have a restraining order... so he just talks to all the other fish that really don't give a rats azz...

I'm sure he gets all snarky with them too for not responding to his rants in the affirmative. Afterall, its expensive to keep fish schools together, and dang it if they are only going to be a party of the fish school for a year or two, then they should just go off on their own. There are plenty of other fish in the sea that want to be in a school...
 
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Who cares about some foreigner, who came to America and denied an American the eduction they needed to succeed. Wouldn't it be a lot better if American tax money was spent to educate American kids?

I guess the record of Dryden's hockey accomplishments has ended any more discussion of famous college hockey grads, particularly since Dryden went on to more fame after hockey.

Perhaps some posters (you know who you are) would be more interested and less uncomfortable with a thread naming the most infamous goon who ever graced your college's ice? [The bait is in the water. Watch the bobber.]
 
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