Charlestown Sends Three to NHL, One to Bruins
Townie Matt Grzelcyk heads to the Boston Bruins, Jimmy Vesey heads to the Nashville Predators and Brendan Collier goes to the Carolina Hurricanes.
As if Charlestown needed more reason to cheer for the Boston Bruins.
A town that’s already hockey nuts now has one of its own waiting on the wings to wear the black and gold at TD Garden, and two more ready to play NHL hockey in other cities.
The B’s drafted Townie Matt Grzelcyk, who played his last season with the USA National Team Development program, in the third round of the NHL Draft Saturday.
Overall, he was the league’s 85th pick—and Townie hockey pride this week doesn’t end with Grzelcyk.
The Nashville Predators picked Jimmy Vesey, who played last year with the South Shore Kings, in the third round, 21 picks before Grzelcyk. Rounding out the three, the Carolina Hurricanes picked up Brendan Collier, who ESPN Boston named Mr. Hockey for 2012.
|
Name |
Round |
Overall |
Team |
Position |
|
Jimmy Vesey |
3 |
66 |
Nashville Predators |
Left Wing |
|
Matthew Grzelcyk |
3 |
85 |
Boston Bruins |
Defense |
|
Brendan Collier |
7 |
189 |
Carolina Hurricanes |
Left Wing |
sparky alexander
9:42 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
AWESOME Hockey Talent outa CTown! Very exciting and fun to look forward to cheering-on home grown athletes. Go Black & Gold.
Joseph
11:15 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
Congratulations and the best for a successful NHL career!!
Jeannie B
10:59 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Congratulations Matt, Jimmy & Brendan!!!! And a bigger congratulations to their parents ~ being a hockey parent takes a lot of work and patients ~ it shows here!!!
Keep up the good work : )
julie
1:23 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
So happy for all 3 of them, esp Matt tho!! So happy to see all of his hard work pay off!! He's earned it!
Mum22
8:17 am on Monday, July 2, 2012
Here is a great article in ESPN about these three skaters. Congrats to all!
http://espn.go.com/boston/nhl/story/_/id/8118834/2012-nhl-draft-picks-matt-grzelcyk-jimmy-vesey-brendan-collier-grew-playing-hockey-together-charlestown-mass
kevin finn
11:34 am on Sunday, July 22, 2012
The best player to come out of CHARLESTOWN , was and is TOMMY FITZGERALD HE PLAYED !& YEARS IN THE NHL>>>BINGO
Kevin Kelly
12:08 am on Monday, July 23, 2012
Tommy's stats have also been added to the hockey archives; his 348 NHL points tops the list. His college stats have been added as well. Again, I greatly appreciate being informed of anyone who is not included on the list.