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Saints History
There’s no doubt about
it: St. Lawrence University Hockey – Men’s and
Women’s – is a North Country
phenomenon. Students, staff, alumni, the community
at large -- Saints Hockey draws everyone into its
heady mix of color, excitement, and tradition.
The
Men’s program was born back in the 1920s, and
blossomed into national prominence in the early
1950s thanks to an indomitable band of Brooklyn-born
veterans and a powerful infusion of Canadian talent.
Among many laurels the program boasts six ECAC
Tourney championships and two NCAA “Frozen Four”
championship game appearances. Saint teams are
perennial post-season playoff entrants; Head Coach
Joe Marsh took team reins in 1985, and has
risen high in the ranks
of the nation’s most honored and respected ice
mentors. Marsh’s 2006-07 Saints compiled a 23-14-1
record together with the ECACHL regular-season
championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
Elevated to team
status in 1979, the Women’s program competed both as
an independent and as a Division III program,
annexing three D-III crowns, and in 1997 entered the
D-I ranks. Since then the Saints have rocketed to
the stratosphere of US college women’s
hockey with two ECACHL regular-season championships
and five NCAA “Frozen Four” appearances, including
consecutive ones from 2004 to 2007. The 2006-07
team blazed a 29-8-3 mark
for Head Coach Paul Flanagan, the seventh straight
20-win season for the veteran ice boss, who took his
place behind the bench in 1999.
Both programs have
placed a host of players in All-America ranks, and
many SLU hockey alumni have gone on to success in
the professional world as players, coaches,
executives, and broadcasters. In the 2006 Olympic
Winter Games held in
Torino, Italy, Gina
Kingsbury (’04) earned an
gold medal as a member of Team Canada.
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Ronald “Obie”
O’Brien Given the passage of time, it’s
understandable that Ronald “Obie” O’Brien, Class of
1957, is better known as a magician than as one of
the finest hockey players ever to don St. Lawrence
livery.
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