Alums

[Heidisioux]

Listened to the Houston Aeros game tonight (Roche and Murphy) and while I was listening I decided to cruise and check up on the other "Alums".

[leifolson]

Isn't O'Connell playing on the east coast somewhere?

[Goon]

Landon Wilson actually had 2 assist in a game on Saturday for the Yotes...

[Heidisioux]

Mike Commodore got suspended by the AHL for three games after their Dec. 8th game (the suspension lasts throught the Dec. 19th game).

[Heidisioux]

Finally found Tim O'Connell.  He's playing for the Elmira Jackals (NY) on a two way contract with Syracuse, so if he gets called up,  he'll be playing with Karl.  Couldn't find any stats for him though.

[Heidisioux]

The Sioux alums keep impressing.

Jeff Panzer was named to the AHL American All Star Team (not bad for a rookie).

Curtis Murphy was named to the AHL Canadian All Star Team.

Here's a couple of nice articles on Travis Roche and Karl Goehring.

http://www.syracuse.com/sports/syrnewspape...12_scrunch.html

http://theahl.com/AHLNews0201/10_roche.html

[SiouxFanInBoston]

Does anyone know what happened to Dixon Ward?

[Goon]

Sioux Fan in Beantown,

We were hoping hoping maybe you had the answer to that question. I haven't seen his name anywhere...

[ScottM]

Quote: from SiouxFanInBoston on 5:50 pm on Jan. 14, 2002

Does anyone know what happened to Dixon Ward?

[Goon]

Hey Scott_M Dixon has not played all year long, he might have been a causualty of the new GM of Boston, he actually played pretty well last season after he came back from an injury. Only think I can think of is that he is hurt again or retiring...

[ScottM]

Quote: from Goon on 7:24 pm on Jan. 14, 2002

Hey Scott_M Dixon has not played all year long, he might have been a causualty of the new GM of Boston, he actually played pretty well last season after he came back from an injury. Only think I can think of is that he is hurt again or retiring...

Goon, I found nothing about Dix on the Bruins' site, but found the inactive status on CNNSI(?) or some other sports site.  No luck when I punched his name into Google, except for some Bruins related stuff from last season.  He may very well be out of the game or in some obscure junior system.

[choyt3]

Found Dixon Ward using www.eurohockey.net

He plays for the SC Langnau Tigers in the Swiss A League. Brian Bonin is one of his teammates. I couldn't find a web page that wasn't in French or German, so I'm not posting any links.

Scratch that, I found one

I removed this long link. See my post below. GDM, moderator.

Check out his largest desire...

(Edited by Clayton Hoyt at 10:40 pm on Jan. 15, 2002)

(Edited by GDM at 9:38 am on Jan. 16, 2002)

[Heidisioux]

Clayton,

One, maybe two more posts and you get to graduate.

[sprig]

Coach the Gophs. You've got to be kidding.

[dagies]

Gr

[GDM]

Here's a shortened version of Clayton Hoyt's link:

http://www.hockeyfans.ch/teams/langnau/ward.htm

The long link made you have to scroll left/right on the screen so I modified it.

A good German to English translator is at:

http://babelfish.altavista.com

Sorry for the interruption.

GDM

(Edited by GDM at 9:39 am on Jan. 16, 2002)

[choyt3]

Quote: from sprig on 5:49 am on Jan. 16, 2002

Coach the Gophs. You've got to be kidding.

Actually, he wants to be a trainer. I wonder how he is going to become a trainer since he is a journalism student. The Google.com translator for some reason changed "trainer" to coach. Pretty funny, though.

GDM, thanks. I posted the long link since it used the translator, figuring I would save some time for people. I didn't screw anything up, did I? (as far as the bbs goes, I mean)

[The Sicatoka]

Dixon Ward as the Gopher trainer?

He'd either run them into the ground and leave them for dead:

"Whaddaya mean you can't benchpress that Buick off your chest? PUSH! It'll be a Cadillac next time!"

or it'd be:

Hey boys, lots and lots of beer and chips are good for you! And don't forget the nachos.

[SiouxFanInBoston]

Wow....

[Wantagh]

That newbie thing seems like it stays on forever.

[jk]

A little note about Wes Dorey from the Colorado Springs paper:

WCHL ALL-ROOKIE TEAM: Garrow and two Idaho Steelheads - goaltender Jason Cugnet and forward Wes Dorey - were unanimous selections to the WCHL all-rookie team.

Cugnet, who played at Colorado College, has a 2.47 goals-against average and a 10-4-2 won-loss record in his first season. Cugnet's .909 save percentage is second best among WCHL goaltenders.

[kiork]

I created a Fantasy Hockey league in order to more easily track the stats of Sioux alumni.

[dagies]

I was going to work on this a little more but since this topic has come to the top again I'll post what I have so far.  I have not included the NHL guys at this time.

Here are former Sioux players in the minors and overseas that I was able to find.  I used a couple of "former Sioux in the pros" lists so hope this covers most everybody.  If there is anyone else you think of maybe I will devote some more lunch time to trying to track them down.

These teams are their 2001-2002 teams.

Tim Skarperud

Jeff Ulmer

Grand Rapids Griffins

http://www.griffinshockey.com/index.asp

Aaron Schneekloth

Adam Calder

Brad Williamson

South Carolina Stingrays

http://www.stingrayshockey.com/

David Hoogsteen

Rockford IceHogs

http://www.icehogs.com/home_new.asp

Ryan Bayda

Brad DeFauw

Lowell Lockmonsters

http://www.lockmonsters.com/

Lee Goren

Providence Bruins

http://www.providencebruins.com/

Jeff Panzer

Worecester IceCats

http://www.worcestericecats.com/

look under "scores" for stats

Chad Mazurak

Roanoke Express

http://www.roanokeexpress.com/

Andy Kollar

Peter Armbrust

Jason Ulmer

Quad City Mallards

http://www.qcmallards.com/

Brent Bobyck

Sheffield Steelers

http://www.iceweb.co.uk/sms/99ygm211she0.htm

Mike Commodore

New Jersey Devils

http://www.newjerseydevils.com/site.html

Matt Henderson

Norfolk Admirals

http://www.norfolkadmirals.com/

Dane Jackson

Manchester Monarchs

http://www.monarchshockey.com/

Teeder Wynne

Dundee Texol Stars

http://www.blueiceinter.co.uk/newstars/pages/home.asp

Scott Kirton

Pee Dee Pride

http://www.peedeepride.com/active/home.asp

Dan Litke

Baton Rouge Kingfish

http://www.kingfishhockey.com/explore2.htm

Kevin McKinnon

Knoxville Speed

http://www.speedhockey.com/index.cfm

Nick Naumenko

Portland Pirates

http://www.portlandpirates.com/

Tim O'Connell

Syracruse Crunch & Elmira Jackals

http://www.syracusecrunch.com/

http://www.jackalshockey.com/

Travis Roche

Curtis Murphy

Houston Aeros

http://www.aeros.com/

Russ Romaniuk

Manchester Storm

http://www.manchesterstorm.co.uk/new/flash/default.asp

Paxton Schulte

Belfast Giants

http://www.belfastgiants.com/

Bill Trew

Straubing ?

http://www.muc.de/~bayer/ehc/01team.htm

Aaron Vickar

Missouri River Otters

http://www.riverotters.com/default.asp

Jason Herter

Munich Barons

http://www.munich-barons.de/Barons/spieler/herter.html

Kevin Hoogsteen

Nijmegen Tigers

http://www.tigers.nl/

Bryan Lundbohm

Milwaukee Admirals

http://www.milwaukeeadmirals.com/

Karl Goehring

Dayton Bombers

http://www.daytonbombers.com/mainpage.asp

Wes Dorey

Idaho Steelheads

http://www.idahosteelheads.com/

COULDN'T FIND

Jeff McLean

Russ Parent

Jesse Bull

Mitch Vig

Brent Bobyck

[jk]

KG's Dayton team swept its first-round playoff series in the ECHL- he was 3-0.

In the second round's first game, his team won 4-3 in 2OTs, behind Karl's 50 saves.  In the next, Dayton won 3-1, with Karl making 40 saves.

I was very happy that Andy Kollar closed out his career with a fine game in Mpls., but in case you were wondering what the Sioux really missed this year, look at Mr. Goehring's results in the playoffs.

[Diggler]

In the first round, Karl gave up 2 goals in 3 games.  I listened to the games and Karl played very well.  It doesn't hurt that Dayton is the top defensive team in the ECHL, though.

I hope Karl can get up and stay up with the Syracuse Crunch next year.  He was up there for a while, but has spent most of his time in Dayton this season.