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Union senior Josh Kosack (27) organized a coat drive for donation to the Schenectady City Mission in November.
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Union senior forward Josh Kosack, known for his community service off the ice, didn’t need a hockey season to earn a hockey award.
During the 2021 Hobey Baker Award show on Friday, Kosack was named the winner of the Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award recognizing the NCAA Division I hockey player whose contributions can’t be measured by statistics.
Kosack didn’t have any hockey stats, anyway, since Union decided to cancel its season because of health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but he did continue his charitable work in Schenectady.
It’s no secret at this point in the season that the Chicago Blackhawks are not a perfect team. They are not Stanley Cup contenders and it’s looking more likely that they are not true Stanley Cup
playoff contenders, either.
Last night’s 5-1 loss to the Dallas Stars seemed to be a culmination of a lot of things wrong with the 2021 iteration of the Blackhawks. Primarily, costly mistakes not being rectified.
Blackhawks teams of the past used to have this aura around them, which, whatever happened, they were never out of a game. They could be down two, three, four goals and still feel like the game would be within arms reach. The leadership of the team stretched way beyond Jonathan Toews and whoever was wearing a letter for Chicago at the time.
It’s a sad week in the hockey world; former coach of the Montreal Canadians, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils and Stanley Cup Champion, Pat Burns has passed away from cancer after a long battle with the disease.
Pat Burns was one of the most respected, decorated, and colourful coaches in the history of the NHL. He started his career in Montreal where he lead Patrick Roy and the Habs to a Stanley Cup bearth in which they lost to the dreaded Calgary Flames in 1989. After a near cup win and a Jack Adams Trophy for the best coach in the NHL, Burn retired from the Montreal Canadians organization in 1992 only to only to find himself behind the glorious Maple Leaf blue bench in Toronto for the 1992-1993 season where he would take the Leafs to a near original six match up Stanley Cup final with the Montreal Canadians only to be beaten by Gretzky and the Los Angels Kings in the Conference final. During Burn’s tenure with the Leafs he would take them to the conference
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Facing the Best in the League, the Next Phenom, Coach of the Year? And Other Blackhawks Bullets
The Chicago Blackhawks get back on the ice tonight against the Florida Panthers, looking to get back in the win column after dropping a lackluster 4-2 game on Saturday night. Working in the Blackhawks’ favor is the fact that they are 10-1-2 against the same opponent in game two of a two-game mini-series this season.
• What is not working in the Blackhawks’ favor is the realignment of the NHL Divisions this season. Yes, they were able to face the Red Wings eight times this season, but it comes at the cost of facing the Panthers, Hurricanes, and Lightning eight times each, as well.