B'hawks: updates
PETER WARD
Peter Ward former Blackhawk Captain after attending Sienna College enjoyed a professional hockey career in Germany and stateside before incurring an eye injury to end his career. Presently coaches at South Shore Kings and runs the Beantown Bullies, a successful summer program. He is the New England scout for the Quebec Major Junior League and now resides in Waltham. Peter most recently is the USA HOCKEY 16 Under Director and Festival Director for the National Programs. His Beantown Bullies continue to be a success.
ROBBIE LALONDE
After leaving Boston, played a season for Cleveland in the NAHL, and was a 4 year scholarship player at Merrimack. After graduating Merrimack had a 10 game tour with the Lowell Lockmonsters of the AHL. This season played for the Reading Royals and Wilkes-Barre Scranton of the AHL. Robbie resides in his hometown of Buffalo in the off-season.Rob is still actively playing professional hockey.
LOU GUIDA
Former Blackhawk Lou Guida of New York has embarked on his pro challenge .The solid goaltender has entertained opportunities stateside and abroad and will let us know as soon as his plans have been finalized by his agent this month.
JOSH HAND
Former Hawk tender Josh Hand after attending Mankato State in Minnesota has also started his pro journey and has recently gotten several offers in Europe this month. We also will update Josh’s' decision where he will play next season.Josh is now Arena Manager
of Texas A & M ice facility in College Station Texas. He refers young players to the Blackhawks and invites the Blackhawks to his
Texas High School Championships he hosts.
JEFF PELLEGRINI
After Coaching in the Junior ranks and NCAA Men’s hockey teams, Jeff has embarked on a new job. He was recently announced as the head coach of the Boston Shamrocks women’s junior hockey team. The Shamrocks play in the World Women’s League featuring many of the top women players in the country. Most recently the 2nd Blackhawk Hall of Fame inductee and All Time Leading Scorer is now Associate
Coach at Bowdoin College. He will bring a wealth of recruiting skills to the program. No player has ever impacted the success of the
program than Jeff Pellegrini.
REMEMBERING NICKY
One of the Blackhawks all time great team players was tragically lost to us
back in 2006 in a fatal auto accident in Michigan. Nicky Pierce, was attending Michigan Tech University as an Engineering Major and doing very well before the tragedy. He will always be remembered as helping younger players with rides and any problem they had. His smile was ever
present and he was ever so proud of being from "U.P" (Upper Peninsula, Michigan). We will never forget Nicky.....
LUCAS DVORAK
Every time a hard shot goes off the glass it is a ringing reminder of Lucas Dvorak who played for the Hawks in 2002. The Czech star now plays professionally in the Czech Republic. He once ripped a mid 90 mph shot so hard it imbedded into the glass and just stayed stuck in the glass.
An exciting player to watch with world-class skills.
SIMO PULKKI
Simo a 6'5 Finnish defensemen was a star on the 2003 club and after a great Blackhawk season signed a lucrative contract the Hawks acquired for him in the BRITISH PREMIER LEAGUE. After 2 seasons in England he would play in the East Coast League before returning home to play professionally in Finland.
HENRIK REIS
Henrik, a smooth skating sniper from Sweden was a crowd favorite while playing in Boston. His fan club of younger players followed him during his stay. The highly skilled Swede had lightning speed and was magic around the net. After his year in Boston played pro with Hammastad in the Swedish Elite League. Henrik Reis, truly a popular Hawk.
MARTIN ROKKE
The highly skilled Swedish forward returned to play professional in the Swedish Elite League after a season with the Blackhawks.
THE WEST COAST
Many former Hawks are left coast guys.. NICK MATZKE from the Tom Brady hometown of San Mateo. Matzke scored a natural hattrick in Nationals and 2 in the last minute of play to win a Championship. Justin Stark now at Suffolk along with Scott ZANOLLI. .....STEVE SAVAGE who played at Westfield. Billy Janulecwicz. DEREK BOLLS now at Arizona State, MATT DARTT, MIKE TRUEX....ANDREW JONES....MIKE NEWALL(WNEC) from Arizona along with SEAN POWELL and SCOTT WALKER..
LONE STAR STARS...
Who could ever forget MATT BURNETT the burner from Dallas. CHAD HUBBARD,STEWART FOWLER,CHRIS BREEZE, MARTIN GWODZ, B.J MCGEE, AND AARON NASH (LAKE STATE)
TALL ORDER.....
6'7"Nate Caswell was the tallest Blackhawk ever , after a brief career at Bentley College he would move on to play professionally at Anchorage and Nashville before settling in Washington and coach Juniors in Seattle.
