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Cornell University
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Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and land-grant doctoral university located in Ithaca, New York. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornells motto, the university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of three private land grant universities in the nation and the one in New York. Of its seven colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York system, including its agricultural. Of Cornells graduate schools, only the college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension program in every county of New York. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens are considered. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race, the student body consists of more than 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and more than 120 countries. Cornell University was founded on April 27,1865, the New York State Senate authorized the university as the land grant institution. Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York, as a site, fellow senator and experienced educator Andrew Dickson White agreed to be the first president. During the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the first two buildings and traveled to attract students and faculty, the university was inaugurated on October 7,1868, and 412 men were enrolled the next day. Cornell developed as an innovative institution, applying its research to its own campus as well as to outreach efforts. For example, in 1883 it was one of the first university campuses to use electricity from a dynamo to light the grounds. Cornell has had active alumni since its earliest classes and it was one of the first universities to include alumni-elected representatives on its Board of Trustees. Today the university has more than 4,000 courses, since 2000, Cornell has been expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and it has partnerships with institutions in India, Singapore, and the Peoples Republic of China. Former president Jeffrey S. Lehman described the university, with its international profile. On March 9,2004, Cornell and Stanford University laid the cornerstone for a new Bridging the Rift Center to be built, Cornells main campus is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake
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Ithaca, New York
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Ithaca /ˈɪθəkə/ is a city in the Southern Tier-Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area and this area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tompkins County. The city of Ithaca is located on the shore of Cayuga Lake. It is named for the Greek island of Ithaca, Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school of over 20,000 students, most of whom study at its local campus. Ithaca College is located just south of the city in the Town of Ithaca, nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College. These three colleges bring tens of thousands of students who increase Ithacas seasonal population during the school year, some students settle in the area after graduation. The citys voters are more liberal than those in the remainder of Tompkins County or in upstate New York. In 2010, the population was 30,014. Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca is the North American seat of Tenzin Gyatso, indigenous people occupied this area for thousands of years. At the time of European contact, this area was controlled by the Cayuga Indians, jesuit missionaries from New France are said to have had a mission to the Cayuga as early as 1657. Saponi and Tutelo Indians, Algonquian-speaking tribes, later occupied lands at the end of Cayuga Lake. Remnants of these tribes had been forced from North Carolina by tribal conflicts, during the Revolutionary War, four of the then six Iroquois nations were allied with the British, although bands made decisions on fighting in a highly decentralized way. Conflict with the colonists was fierce throughout the Mohawk Valley. In retaliation for conflicts to the east, the 1779 Sullivan Expedition was conducted against the Iroquois peoples in the west of the state, destroying more than 40 villages and stored winter crops. It destroyed the Tutelo village of Coregonal, located near what is now the junction of state routes 13, most Iroquois were forced from the state after the Revolutionary War, but some remnants remained. The state sold off the former Iroquois lands to development and settlement by European Americans. Within the current boundaries of the City of Ithaca, Native Americans maintained only a temporary hunting camp at the base of Cascadilla Gorge, in 1788 eleven men from Kingston, New York came to the area with two Delaware people guides, to explore what they considered wilderness. The following year Jacob Yaple, Isaac Dumond, and Peter Hinepaw returned with their families and that same year Abraham Bloodgood of Albany obtained a patent from the state for 1400 acres, which included all of the present downtown west of Tioga Street
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College ice hockey
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College ice hockey is played in Canada and the United States, though leagues outside of North America exist. University hockey is the used for hockey primarily played at four-year institutions. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has conducted national championships for mens ice hockey since 1948, U. S. college hockey players must be deemed eligible for NCAA competition by the NCAA Eligibility Center, a process that examines a student-athletes academic qualifications and amateur status. Players who have participated in the Canadian Hockey League or any professional league are considered ineligible. Mens U. S. college hockey is a system to the National Hockey League. As of the 2010–11 season,30 percent of NHL players had U. S. college hockey experience prior to turning professional and that percentage has been maintained the past three seasons, with a record 301 NHL players coming from college hockey in 2011–12. One hundred thirty-eight colleges and universities sponsor mens ice hockey in the NCAAs three divisions, the NCAA Division I has 60 ice hockey teams as of the 2015–16 season. The NCAA Division I Championship is a 16-team, single-elimination tournament, divided into four, the winner of each regional advances to the Frozen Four to compete for the national championship. For many years,5 teams earned automatic bids through winning conference tournament championships, with the addition of the Big Ten Hockey Conference for the 2013–14 season, the tournament now features 6 automatic qualifiers, and 10 at-large bids. In 2015–16, there were 60 schools competing in Division I, with 59 of them organized into six conferences, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference sponsored D-I mens hockey, but dropped the sport in 2003. The Hobey Baker Memorial Award honors the top player in mens Division I hockey, the Mike Richter Award honors the top goaltender in Division I. The NCAA does not currently sponsor a championship in Division II, as there is only one conference that currently sponsors hockey, several other schools that normally compete in Division II play up to the Division I level in hockey. The NCAA conducted a Division II national championship from 1978 to 1984, the current championship format is an 12-team, single-elimination bracket. Eighty-eight colleges and universities sponsor womens ice hockey in two divisions, National Collegiate and Division III, there are 36 teams in the National Collegiate division. The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award is awarded annually by USA Hockey to the top player in womens Division I hockey. The most recent school to add varsity womens hockey was Merrimack, University hockey teams in Canada compete in leagues as part of U Sports, the national governing body for Canadian university athletics. U Sports sponsors both mens and womens hockey, like in the United States, teams compete in athletic conferences based on geographical locations of the schools. Unlike the NCAA, U Sports does not award players with athletic scholarships, individual conferences hold postseason tournaments, followed by the round-robin U Sports championship tournament in late March
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Ivy League
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The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. While the term was in use as early as 1933, it became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period, Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution, the other two are Rutgers University and College of William & Mary. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, all eight universities place in the top fifteen of the U. S. News & World Report 2017 nation university rankings, including the top four schools and five of the top eight. Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,000 to 14,000, making them larger than those of a private liberal arts college. Total enrollments, including students, range from approximately 6,400 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard. Ivy League financial endowments range from Browns $3 billion to Harvards $36.4 billion, as of 2014, Harvard University has an endowment of $36.4 billion. Additionally, each university receives millions of dollars in grants and other subsidies from federal. Harvard University uses the date that the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally allocated funds for the creation of a college, Harvard was chartered in 1650, although classes had been conducted for approximately a decade by then. The University of Pennsylvania initially considered its founding date to be 1750, later in Penns early history, the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749, which was used for all of the nineteenth century, including a centennial celebration in 1849. In 1899, Penns board of trustees adopted a third founding date of 1740. Penn was chartered in 1755, the same year classes began. Religious affiliation refers to financial sponsorship, formal association with, and promotion by, all of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion. Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges, planting the ivy was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. In 1893 an alumnus told The Harvard Crimson, In 1850, the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time. At Penn, graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873, Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey
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The Harvard Crimson mens ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college ice hockey program that represents Harvard University. The Crimson are a member of ECAC Hockey and they play at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Crimson hockey team is one of the oldest college ice hockey teams in the United States, having played their first game on January 19,1898, the Crimsons archrival is the Cornell Big Red. The teams meet at least twice each season for installments of the historic Cornell-Harvard hockey rivalry, the Crimson hockey team was founded in 1898 making the team one of the oldest college ice hockey teams in the United States. The team played on a pond and played their first recorded intercollegiate game against Brown on January 19,1898. The rivalry is the oldest continuing college hockey series in the country, the Crimson lost that game 0–6 but the Brown-Harvard rivalry continued and later become US college hockeys oldest rivalry. The two teams played again the following winter, Brown won that game by a score of 2–1, the Crimson would get their first recorded win in program history in 1900 with a 10–1 win over MIT. That same season Harvard beat Brown in back to back games, on February 26,1900, Harvard played Yale for the first time. The game was held at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York, in 1903 Alfred Winsor became the teams first official head coach. The team previously used captains in a role, including Winsor who served as the Crimsons captain from 1901–1902. Under Winsor the team recorded a 22-game winning streak that spanned five, the university also began charging admission for select important games for the first time. The Crimson later moved home games to the Boston Arena, the first indoor ice rink in Boston and one of the oldest in the United States. A few years moving into the Boston Arena, on March 14,1913. Following the 1917 season Alfred Winsor stepped down as the coach after compiling a 124–29 record in 15 seasons as Crimson head coach. The following season was suspended because of World War I with the team resuming play in 1919, from 1919–1921 the team went back to playing at outdoor rinks after the Boston Arena caught fire in the fall of 1918. The Crimson returned to the arena after it was rebuilt in the fall of 1921, the idea proved successful as Harvard defeated Yale 2–1 in overtime. On March 12,1930, Harvard and Yale played the game of a three-game series to end the 1930 season. The two teams split the first two games of the series, the game was called off at midnight due to blue laws despite the teams being tied in the third overtime and a record crowd in excess of 14,000
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Lynah Rink
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Lynah Rink is a 4, 267-seat hockey arena at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, that opened in 1957. Named after James Lynah, Class of 1905, who was the director of Cornell athletics from 1935 to 1943, Lynah has been home to hockey greats such as Ken Dryden, Joe Nieuwendyk, Matt Moulson, Digit Murphy, and Olympic Gold Medalists Rebecca Johnston and Brianne Jenner. The building is a quonset shaped structure covered with multi-colored brick wall cladding set in a bond pattern. Projecting from the facade of the structure is a one story rectangular wing flanked on either side by two vertical appendages, which have multi-paned colored glass windows, the one story wing has a strip of casement windows. The stairway is situated on the west side of the building, a white concrete block structure with wall buttresses connects Lynah Rink to Bartels Hall. It was constructed for $500,000 with a donation from Walter S. Carpenter, the facility was designed by Van Storch, Evans, and Burkavage of Waverly, PA and constructed by Streeter Associates of Elmira, NY. The rink opened on March 21,1957 with a match between the New York Rangers and the Rochester Americans in front of 4200 spectators and it was subsequently dedicated on April 6,1957 and named the James Lynah Skating Hall. In March,2006 Cornell University broke ground on a renovation project designed to add 19,500 square feet to the rink. The additions and renovations included 464 new seats, upgraded locker rooms for both the mens and womens squads and their opponents, trainers rooms, coaches offices and an area for players. A new scoreboard was added as well as preferred seating and a tunnel for the players, the raucous crowd support gives the Big Red one of the largest home ice advantages in college hockey, losing under 20% of their games on home ice since Lynah opened in 1957. The Lynah Faithful are cheered on by one cowbell, usually played by a zealous undergraduate, but only during the second and third periods at approximately mid-period. After the end of all games at Lynah, when the team leaves the ice. This is known as the Lynah salute, Cornells mens team has had great success at Lynah Rink, closing in on its 500th win on home ice. Its record at Lynah was 15-0-1 during the 2004–05 season, 15-0-0 during the 2002–03 season, postseason success at Lynah has been equally impressive. Since Lynah Rink hosted its first postseason game in 1966, Cornells mens team has a record of 38-7-2 in games played there. During the same period they were 14-1 in single games with the sole loss coming against Providence in 1978. Cornell has long been criticized for its policies regarding the distribution of tickets to mens hockey home games. Students often wait in line for nights to get tickets, however and its common to see students wearing T-shirts proudly announcing, I did my time in the line
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ECAC Hockey
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ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference and this relationship ended in 2004, however, the ECAC abbreviation was retained in the name of the hockey conference. ECAC Hockey is the ice hockey conference with identical memberships in both its womens and mens divisions. ECAC Hockey was founded in 1961 as an association of college hockey teams in the Northeast. By that fall, Maine also departed the ECAC for the new conference and this left the ECAC with twelve teams. Army would stay in the conference until the end of the 1990–91 season, vermont left the ECAC for Hockey East at the end of the 2004–05 season, and were replaced in the conference by Quinnipiac. The ECAC began sponsoring a womens tournament in 1985. ECAC teams began playing a regular season schedule in the 1988–89 season. ECAC teams won two of the three pre-NCAA American Womens College Hockey Alliance national championships, New Hampshire winning in 1998 and Harvard in 1999, there are 12 member schools in the ECAC. Since the 2006–07 season, all schools have participated with mens and womens teams, the six Ivy League universities with Division I ice hockey programs are all members of ECAC Hockey. Neither the University of Pennsylvania nor Columbia University has a varsity intercollegiate ice hockey program, penn supported an intercollegiate varsity hockey program in the past and was an ECAC Hockey member from 1966 to 1978 before the team was disbanded. The Ivy school that has the best record against other Ivy opponents in regular season ECAC games is crowned the Ivy League ice hockey champion, the Ivy League schools require their teams to play seasons that are about three weeks shorter than those of the other schools in the league. Thus, they enter the league schedule with fewer non-conference warm-up games, Harvard competes in the annual Beanpot Tournament and Cornell hosts a holiday tournament in Estero, Florida. The Cleary Cup, named for former Harvard player and coach Bill Cleary, is awarded to the team with the best record in games at the end of the regular–season. There is no tie–breaking procedure should two or more teams end the season with the record and the trophy is shared. A tie breaking procedure is applied to determine the top seed in the ECAC conference tournament, the Cleary Cup winner is not given any special consideration in the NCAA tournament as the ECAC awards its automatic bid to the winner of the ECAC tournament. At the conclusion of regular season schedule the coaches of each ECAC team vote which players they choose to be on the two to four All-Conference Teams, first team and second team. Additionally they vote to award up to 7 individual trophies to a player at the same time
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2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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The tournament began on March 23,2012 with regional semifinals and ended on April 7 with the national championship game. The Boston College Eagles won their national championship in five years, beating the Ferris State Bulldogs, 4-1. BC won nineteen games to end the season. It is the title for both the program and head coach Jerry York - York previously coached Bowling Green to a championship in 1984. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas, number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. Note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local, note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local. Note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local, note, * denotes overtime periodAll times are local. ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament, for the eighth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU, and ESPN3. They also streamed online via WatchESPN. com
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Joe Nieuwendyk
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Joseph Joe Nieuwendyk is a Canadian former National Hockey League player. He is one of only 11 players in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with three or more different teams, winning titles with Calgary in 1989, Dallas in 1999, a two-time Olympian, Nieuwendyk won a gold medal with Team Canada at the 2002 winter games. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011, Joe Nieuwendyk was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. On January 27,2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, an accomplished box lacrosse player, Nieuwendyk led the Whitby Warriors to the 1984 Minto Cup national junior championship before focusing exclusively on hockey. He played university hockey with the Cornell Big Red where he was a two-time All-American and he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL rookie of the year in 1988 after becoming only the second first-year player to score 50 goals. Nieuwendyk played 1,257 games in his career, scoring 559 goals and 1,126 points, chronic back pain forced Nieuwendyks retirement as a player in 2006. He then began a new career in management, acting first as a consultant to the manager with the Panthers before moving onto the Maple Leafs where he was an assistant to the general manager. Nieuwendyk was the General Manager of the Dallas Stars between 2009 and 2013 and he is currently working as a pro scout and advisor for the Carolina Hurricanes. Nieuwendyk was born September 10,1966 in Oshawa, Ontario and he is the youngest of four children to Gordon and Joanne Nieuwendyk, who immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands in 1958. Gordon owned a car shop in Whitby. Joe grew up in a sporting family and his brother Gil was a box lacrosse player, while his uncle Ed Kea and cousin Jeff Beukeboom also played in the National Hockey League. His best friend growing up was future NHL teammate Gary Roberts and he played both hockey and lacrosse growing up and the latter considered his better sport. At one point, Nieuwendyk was considered the top lacrosse player in Canada. The Ontario Lacrosse Association later named its junior A rookie of the award after Nieuwendyk. Nieuwendyk went undrafted by any Ontario Hockey League team, and so played a season of junior B for the Pickering Panthers in 1983–84, eligible for the 1984 NHL Entry Draft but unselected, he chose to attend Cornell University where he played hockey and lacrosse for the Big Red. He was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference hockey rookie of the year in 1984–85 after scoring 39 points in 23 games. At the 1985 NHL Entry Draft, the Calgary Flames selected him in the round, 27th overall. The disappointment in Calgary over the trade of Nilsson resulted in criticism of Nieuwendyks selection
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NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship
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Like other Division I championships, it is the highest level of NCAA mens hockey competition. The semi-finals and finals are branded as the Frozen Four, the final two rounds of the hockey tournament were first referred to as the Frozen Four in 1999. The tournament features 16 teams representing all six Division I conferences in the nation, the Championship Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 16 within four regionals of 4 teams. The winners of the six Division I conference championships receive automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship, the tournament begins with initial games played at four regional sites culminating with the semi-finals and finals played at a single site. In setting up the tournament, the Championship Committee seeks to ensure competitive equity, financial success, a team serving as the host of a regional is placed within that regional. Number 1 seeds are placed as close to their home site as possible. Conference matchups are avoided in the first round, should five or more teams from one conference make the tournament, broadmoor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, Colorado hosted the tournament for the first ten years and has hosted eleven times overall, the most of any venue. Michigan has won the most tournaments with nine, while Vic Heyliger has coached the most championship teams, * Participation in the tournament vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions. At the conclusion of each tournament both an all-tournament team and Most Outstanding Player in Tournament is named
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