EIU Hockey News
EIU Honors Their Graduating Seniors
EIU takes pride with announcing their graduating seniors from the 2011/2012 Hockey season. "Whether they played with us for 1 year, 2 years, or 5 years they are still like family to us" says captain Brad Bartosz. From EIU's team this season Assistant Captain Connor Maly (#27), Matt Smart (#2), and Eric Tyler (#85) will be parting the team. Click on the pictures below for stories of each senior's EIU Hockey career!
#27 Assistant Captain Connor Maly
#2 Matt Smart
#85 Eric Tyler
EIU Hockey faces tough Losses to DePaul to End Season
Featured in Photo: #12(Conner Cox), #36(Dan Abernethy), #27(Connor Maly)
February 10 the EIU Hockey team traveled to DePaul to face their undefeated squad. EIU travelled with a shortened bench this weekend missing key players such as captain Brad Bartosz (Concussion), Ryan Newton (Back), Chris Gallagher (Broken Fibula), Jake Armijo (Lacerated Kidney), and Zach Yurchak. For more of the story/highlights click here...
EIU Hockey Suffers from Major Injuries
Rookie forward Jake Armijo had been having nothing but stellar of a season going into February 3/4 weekend games against ISU. He laid a bonecrushing open ice hit in the middle of the third period and complained about his side hurting. He sat a shift, then felt okay to play the rest of the game. He was then in excruciating pain after the game to find that he had a lacerated kidney. Armijo is now recovering from the injury and they doctors were able to save his kidney.
Unfortunately Armijo was not the only EIU player suffering from a major injury. Captain Brad Bartosz is suffering from post concussion syndrom from the team's games against Mizzou earlier in the season. Bartosz will not be returning to the ice for the rest of this season. Chris Gallagher (broken fibula) was required to get surgery and will not be returning the rest of the season. In addition Steven kriegshauser (concussion) and Matt Smart (knee) have both returned to the ice and playing regular games.
Coach Runnion states that "In times like these you really have to battle through the injuries. With our captain and one of our top forwards out for injuries going into a weekend like DePaul, we are going to really have to dig deep. Our team has depth though and I believe that we can put up a strong fight this upcoming weekend."
EIU Loses To ISU
Friday February 3 marked the showdown between EIU and ISU at the Palmer Arena in Danville, IL. Both teams came into the game ready and ISU showed just that scoring the first goal of the game. 40 seconds EIU answered with one of their own as rookie forward Jake Armijo rung one bar down on ISU's starting goalie Ryan Suizdak. For more of the story/highlights click here...
EIU Continues Win Streak and Sweeps Lewis University
The EIU Hockey Team faced off in Kankakee this weekend with Lewis University. Lewis, short benched, had to come into a weekend against a fired up EIU squad. EIU was also faced with missing players and a shorter bench than usual with Chris Gallagher (out for season), Sam Guttosch (Lower Body Injury), and Brad Bartosz (Concussion) missing from the lineup. Along with this forwards Eric Tyler and Dan Abernethy would be gone from the lineup. The puck dropped Friday January 27th at 8:00 P.M. and the scoring started quickly after that. For more of the story/highlights click here...
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