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Brandon Sun - PRINT EDITION
Malchuk made the most of his time at RPI
By: Rob Henderson
17/05/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0
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Brandon’s Joel Malchuk carries the puck up ice for RPI in NCAA hockey action against Yale this season.
Not that long ago, Joel Malchuk knew next to nothing about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
This spring, the 23-year-old Brandonite will graduate from RPI with his master’s degree and five years of fond memories from his time with the Engineers hockey team.
After winning a national championship in 2004 with the Brandon Midget AAA Wheat Kings and playing two seasons in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League with the Dauphin Kings, Malchuk had the chance to spread his wings with the NCAA Division 1 hockey program at the Troy, N.Y., university and it’s an opportunity he’s extremely grateful for.
"When the assistant coaches of RPI came and talked to me back when I was playing junior in Dauphin, telling me about the potential opportunity, to be honest I didn’t know that RPI was a Division 1 school," Malchuk said Wednesday from Troy.
"I didn’t know where it was on the map; all I knew was New York State. So I had to do some looking into it and when I travelled down here, I really just fell in love with the program. It’s a top-tier program and it was a real eye-opener — something I didn’t even know existed — and to find out about the academics, being one of the top schools in the United States, and to have hockey with it, it was really special."
Things might have turned out very differently for Malchuk as misfortune struck quickly at RPI, in the form of torn knee ligaments just six games into his freshman season. What appeared to be a disaster may have actually been a blessing in disguise for the young centre, who was granted a medical redshirt, allowing him to play four more seasons with the Engineers and giving him enough time there to earn not only his undergraduate degree but a master’s of science as well.
"I guess it was not the best circumstances how I got it — a lot of hard work and pain, I guess," Malchuk mused. "But to look at it in the long run, to be able to come out of RPI with a bachelor’s as well as a masters, I was lucky enough to be able to have that opportunity and I just wanted to make sure I took advantage of it."
Malchuk scored 18 goals and added 16 assists in 138 games with the Engineers, but played a role with the team that goes far beyond those numbers. He was a co-captain this past season along with fellow Canadian Mike Begin and in 2011 was a part of the first RPI team to reach the NCAA tournament since 1995. Although they lost in the first round to the University of North Dakota, that accomplishment is one that Malchuk nevertheless looks back on with pride.
"It was really special," Malchuk said of the tournament appearance. "RPI’s won two national championships. A lot of people don’t know that and not a lot of schools have won multiple national championships, so it has had some success in the past. Players like Joe Juneau, Adam Oates, Darren Puppa played here. … It was just nice to be able to make it back there and just kind of bring that program back to that national level."
RPI has also opened doors for Malchuk’s future. He’s accepted a job with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago and will start there in August after slipping in an eagerly-awaited visit with family and friends in Brandon this summer. Malchuk has seen a number of his old friends go on to success down various routes through hockey and, while his path may not be the one most dream of growing up in Wheat Kings country, he’s certainly glad it’s the one he chose.
"I couldn’t be happier to be honest," he said. "I think this was the best route for me."
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 17, 2012
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