Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Men's Ice Hockey Set to Welcome Eight-Member Class of 2014

Press Release

BOSTON - The Boston University men's ice hockey program will welcome eight freshmen to its roster for the 2010-11 season, head coach Jack Parker announced today. Forwards Yasin Cisse (Westmount, Que.), Charlie Coyle (East Weymouth, Mass.), Sahir Gill (Terrace, B.C.), Matt Nieto (Long Beach, Calif.) and Matt Ronan (Woburn, Mass.) will join defensemen Adam Clendening (Wheatfield, N.Y.), Patrick MacGregor (Hamden, Conn.) and Garrett Noonan (Norfolk, Mass.) to make up this year's class.

Two of the incoming freshmen were selected in last month's NHL Entry Draft. Coyle became the 10th Terrier to be drafted in the first round when San Jose picked him 28th overall and Cisse was taken by the Florida Panthers with the final pick of the fifth round (150th overall). Clendening and Nieto, who joined Coyle at the U.S. Junior National Team Development Camp earlier this month, were two of the top scorers for the U18 program that has won each of the last two World U18 Championships and both are among the group of 33 top 2011 Draft-eligible prospects that will be attending the NHL Research, Development and Orientation Camp this week (Aug. 18-19) in Toronto.

Gill and Noonan helped the Vernon Vipers of the BCHL claim their second consecutive RBC Cup this past spring, MacGregor was a key member of the Avon Old Farms team that won the 2010 New England prep title and Ronan will become the third member of his family to play for the Terriers, joining his brother, Dan, and his cousin, Ed.

"We're obviously very pleased with the incoming freshman class," said Parker. "It's a big class - both figuratively and literally - and we filled a lot of shoes with a good balance of forwards and defensemen. It's a young class, too, with a lot of 18-year-olds that are projected to be real good players."

(Nathan can be reached at fourniern@students.nescom.edu)

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