Tuesday, February 9, 2010

JACK SWEENEY NAMED NEW EJHL COMMISSIONER

Press Release

Boston, MA- The Eastern Junior Hockey League has announced that Jack Sweeney will serve on an interim basis as the league's new commissioner.

Outgoing commissioner Dan Esdale, who founded the EJHL in 1993 with six teams in the Greater Boston area, has presided over and guided the league since its inception. In the past seventeen seasons, the EJHL has grown to fourteen teams in six states and has become one of the top college development leagues in North America. The EJHL has sent over one thousand players to the NCAA Division One and Division Three ranks and twenty to the National Hockey League.

Esdale looks to continue the development of junior hockey throughout the United States as he continues to serve as the Chairman of the USA Hockey Junior Council.

Sweeney is well-acquainted with the Eastern Junior Hockey League, having coached the South Shore Kings (formerly known as the Walpole Jr. Stars and Foxboro Stars) from 2001 to 2007. He has also held assistant coaching positions with Babson College and Salem State College and was active in the Mass Hockey Satellite Program. Most recently, he served as the EJHL's Director of Hockey Operations.

Founded in 1993, the Eastern Junior Hockey League is New England and the Northeast's premier college development league. Its 14 member organizations are based in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

(Nathan also is a writer for Maineiacs Post to Post and the Maine Hockey Journal. He can be reached at fourniern@students.nescom.edu)

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