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Hockey Center
(1982-86)

Accumulated  the second-highest career scoring output in UMD hockey history (219 points on 76 goals and 143 assists), coming up just three points shy of the all-time program record ... Had his collegiate playing days tragically cut short by a pair of strokes he suffered in the final month of the 1985-86 regular season ...  Attained All-American second team recognition as a senior assistant  team captain after being chosen to the All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association second team in each of the two previous seasons ... Placed second on the team's 1984-85 scoring charts with 77 points -- the sixth most ever turned in by a Bulldog -- while helping lead UMD to its second straight WCHA regular season and playoff titles and a second consecutive NCAA Frozen Four berth ...Skated a regular shift in 168 of 169 games prior to incurring the strokes and, with him in the lineup, UMD was 118-43-7 -- a .723 winning percentage ... Anchored some of the most explosive lines in UMD history with the likes of Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Bill Watson and future Hockey Hall of Famer Brett Hull as his wingers and, in 1985-86, manned the point on a Bulldog power play unit that connected at a staggering (and school-record) 36.5 percent clip ... His National Hockey League draft rights were owned by the St. Louis Blues (8th round, 1982) ...  Was among 21 players voted to the All-DECC Team by Bulldog alumni in 2010. (The DECC was UMD's hockey home for 45 years from 1966 to 2010).