A trio of battle-tested seniors -- Andrew Carroll, Matt Greer and Josh Meyers -- have been chosen to serve as University of Minnesota Duluth hockey tri-captains this winter, marking just the second time in the 65-year history of the Bulldog program that the team captaincy duties have been entrusted to three players.

Mark Heaslip, Chuck Ness, and Rick Heinz of the 1972-73 Bulldogs were the other threesome to share the team captaincy role.

Carroll, who was an alternate team captain in 2007-08 after co-captaining UMD the previous season (becoming the first sophomore to do so in team history), has racked up 45 points on 24 goals and 21 assists in 110 lifetime games. As a junior, the Shoreview, Minn. native was used at both the left wing and center position and wound up earning Western Collegiate Hockey Association All-Academic Team recognition for the second year in a row.



Greer, a left winger from Vadnais Heights, Minn, was one of seven Bulldogs to suit up in all 36 games last season and had two goals and a career-high five assists to show for it. He also evolved into one of UMD's top penalty killers (he collected one the team's five shorthanded goals) and finished a plus-1 on the year. Greer is also a two-time member of the WCHA All-Academic Team.

Meyers, a native of Alexandria, Minn., will enter his farewell collegiate season ranking first among current UMD defensemen in career points (48) and games played (100). Last winter, he received the Bob Junkert Award for posting the best plus-minus rating (plus-10) of any Bulldog while tying for fourth place (with Carroll, Jordan Fulton and Jason Garrison) on the team's scoring charts with 14 points. Meyers enjoyed a breakout season as a sophomore when he set personal bests for both goals (11 - the most by a Bulldog defenseman in five years) and assists (13) and scored more times on the power play (nine) than any other NCAA blueliner.