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RoughRider Alums O'Brien, Fallon Named Hockey East Players of the Week
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RoughRider Alums O'Brien, Fallon Named Hockey East Players of the Week
<p>January 16, 2006- Former Cedar Rapids RoughRider forward Danny O'Brien, now a senior at Massachusetts-Lowell, was named CCM/RBK Hockey East Player of the Week today, while former Rider and current Vermont goaltender Joe Fallon was tabbed as Hockey East's Pure Hockey co-Defensive Player of the Week.</p>
<p>O'Brien, 23, exploded for six points in a pair of Lowell wins over the weekend. The River Hawk captain scored one goal and assisted on two others last Friday in a 6-2 victory over Massachusetts-Amherst. Yesterday O'Brien completed the first hat trick of his college career by scoring with just 13 seconds left in overtime to give Lowell a 4-3 win at Providence.</p>
<p>On the season, O'Brien has scored nine goals and totaled 16 points in 21 games with the River Hawks. </p>
<p>The South Boston, Massachusetts, native played for the RoughRiders during the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons. In 110 career United States Hockey League games, O'Brien scored 28 and picked up 48 assists for 70 points. He ended his junior career as the Riders' career point scoring leader and still ranks seventh in team history in points. </p>
<p>In his final season in Cedar Rapids, O'Brien captained the Riders to the first playoff series win in club history, a four game victory over the Lincoln Stars.</p>
<p>Fallon, 20, last weekend posted back-to-back shutouts for the second time in just the last three weeks. The sophomore netminder made a total of 33 saves over two games as the Catamounts scored a pair of 3-0 victories over Northeastern.</p>
<p>Fallon has now collected four shutouts in his last six games. At the end of last month, he backstopped UVM to victory in the Catamount Cup tournament by whitewashing Dartmouth and Clarkson on consecutive nights.</p>
<p>On the season, Fallon has gone 13-5-2 for the fifth-ranked Catamounts. The Bemidji, Minnesota, product leads the nation in shutouts (6), ranks third in goals against average (1.48) and is tied for eighth in save percentage (.926). </p>
<p>Fallon spent two standout seasons with the RoughRiders before heading to Vermont. In 84 career games as a Rider, Fallon went 45-28-8 with a 2.66 goals against average, a .909 save percentage and six shutouts. In 2003-04, his final season in Cedar Rapids, Fallon posted some of the best goaltending numbers in the United States Hockey League, going 25-13-2 while turning in a 2.73 goals against average, a .910 save percentage and four shutouts.</p>
<p>O'Brien and Fallon are just two of more than 50 former RoughRiders who have gone on to the Division I college ranks since the team's arrival in Cedar Rapids in 1999. 12 current RoughRiders have also already made college commitments. </p>
<p>This year's edition of the RoughRiders (20-9-3, 43 points) is in second place in the USHL's East Division. The RoughRiders return to action Wednesday evening when they visit the league leading Sioux Falls Stampede. Wednesday's game is the first of three this week for the Riders, who will meet the Des Moines Buccaneers in Urbandale Friday evening before returning home to take on the Chicago Steel Saturday night at 7:05.</p>
<p>Tickets for Saturday's game- and all remaining RoughRider home games- can be purchased in person at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena ticket office, over the phone at (319) 261-4625 or on line at www.roughridershockey.com. The ticket office is open from noon to 5:00PM on weekdays and from noon through the end of the second period on game days. Ticket prices range from $7 to $17 including a 50-cent facility fee.</p> |
Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 (Archive on Monday, January 16, 2006)
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