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1/26/2012
Mary Parker to Reunite With Sister at Harvard
Mary Parker will be reunited with her sister Elizabeth when she joins her this fall on the women's hockey team at Harvard. Click here to read the full story in the Boston Globe.

9/29/2011
Blueshirt Banter Talks To Ryan Bourque
There is a great article about Ryan Bourque, the son of one of the greatest hockey players of all time, as he makes his own mark in the New York Rangers organization.

Click here for the full article.

4/16/2011
Alex Berry Candidate For AHL Man Of The Year
Former UMass hockey standout Alex Berry has been named a candidate for the American Hockey League Man of the Year Award after making great contributions on and off the ice with the Norfolk Admirals. Berry won the team's Man of the Year Award for his community service efforts and work with children in the Hampton Roads, Virginia community.

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3/29/2011
Rangers Sign Ryan Bourque to Entry-Level Contract
New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announces that the club has agreed to terms with forward Ryan Bourque.

Bourque, 20, is a two-time medalist at the World Junior Championship as a member of the United States U-20 team, including a gold medal in the 2010 tournament and a bronze medal in the 2011 tournament. Click here for the full story.

6/22/2010
Chris Bourque Wins Calder Cup Playoffs MVP Award
After the Hershey Bears celebrated their 4-0 victory over the Stars on June 14th, Hershey's Chris Bourque was named the winner of the Jack Butterfield Award as the Most Valuable Player in the playoffs. Click here for the full story.

5/8/2010
Derek Arnold wins USHL Curt Hammer Award
The United States Hockey League today announced that Waterloo Black Hawks forward Derek Arnold, an alumnus of Parmy's training, has been named the recipient of the USHL Curt Hammer Award. Click here for the full story.

4/12/2010
Congratulations to Mary and Elizabeth Parker!
Parmys would like to congratulate sisters Mary and Elizabeth Parker for capturing the womens tier 1 U19 national championship skating for Assabet Valley. Elizabeth scored the game winner in overtime to win the National Championship 1-0 over Shattuck St.Mary's. Elizabeth will be playing for Harvard University next season. The sisters just recently started training and shooting at Parmys.

1/6/2010
Ryan Bourque captures Gold Medal
One of Parmy's own, Ryan Bourque, recently captured the Gold Medal at the World Junior Championships in Sasakatoon. Congratulations!
For more information click here.

10/2/2009
Chris Bourque Adds Depth to Penguins
Max Talbot’s offseason shoulder surgery opened a void at left wing on the Penguins’ second line next to Evgeni Malkin and Ruslan Fedotenko.

Versatile veteran Pascal Dupuis will begin the season in this spot, but the Penguins claiming of Chris Bourque on waivers from the Washington Capitals on Wednesday adds another potential ingredient into the mix for head coach Dan Bylsma.

“We are strong with our bottom six guys on our forward unit, but this was a chance to pick up a guy who has been knocking on the door of adding speed and skill to an NHL top-six (line) for a while now,” Bylsma said following practice on Thursday.

If anybody knows what talents Bourque can bring to the Penguins it’s Bylsma, who said he has coached against Bourque roughly 20-plus times the past three years when Bylsma served as both the head and assistant coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League while Bourque was a member of the Hershey Bears.

Despite scoring once and adding an assist in three preseason contests, Bourque was the victim of a numbers game up front in Washington, which boasts a deep forward unit similar to that of the Penguins. Washington hoped to sneak him through waivers, but the Penguins were quick to pounce on Bourque, who Bylsma said had been on the team’s radar for some time.

“It is not the first time we have talked about the name Chris Bourque in the past six months,” Bylsma said. “We talked about him in the summertime when you look at other teams' rosters (and think) there was a chance he might be on waivers.”

Although Bourque said it is “weird and different” for him with this being the first time changing teams as a pro, he is pumped about joining the roster of the defending champs.

I am really excited to be here and it’s awesome to be a Penguin ... It seems like a great group of guys. They like to work hard and have fun. That’s also how I like to play. - Chris Bourque“I am really excited to be here and it’s awesome to be a Penguin,” Bourque gushed upon the conclusion of his first practice as a Penguin. “Everyone has been so nice to me so far. It seems like a great group of guys. They like to work hard and have fun. That’s also how I like to play.”

Being that he is listed at only 5-foot-8, Bourque’s speed and skill game should fit in nicely with the up-tempo system used by Bylsma.

“I like to get up ice and create havoc in the offensive zone,” Bourque said. “With my size, that is one of the biggest things you have to be – fast – if you are going to be small. I think I fit in pretty well and I hope it’s the start of something good here.”

If Bourque is able to progress like he did while spending the majority of the past four seasons with Hershey, he should have no problem starting something good in Pittsburgh.

Bourque’s point totals went up in each of his four seasons (36 in 2005-06, 58 in ’06-’07, 63 in ’07-’08 and 73 in ’08-’09). He scored 82 goals in the AHL during that period, including a career-high 28 in 2007-08.

A lot of those numbers came by way of big games against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Bylsma. Bourque’s new boss remembered those performances well.

“He is a guy who has given (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton) a lot of headaches with his speed, skill and playmaking ability,” Bylsma recalled. “He can shoot the puck. He is a guy who adds speed and skill to your lineup, something we want to be about as a team.”

Bourque’s bloodlines shouldn’t hurt his ability to add skill to a lineup. His father is Hall of Fame and former Boston Bruin and Colorado Avalanche defenseman Ray Bourque. While skating in the shadows of one of hockey’s most recognizable names can have its detriments, Bourque sees it as a positive, and wants to build on his father’s legacy.

“I want to represent this name well," Chris said. "It is a good hockey name and I want to add to that legacy of having it as a good hockey name. I have been dealing with this my entire life so this is nothing new for me. I am used to all that stuff.”

Playing with the Penguins’ world-class centers could bring out the best in the 23-year-old winger, and give the Penguins another prime ingredient in the quest to again rise to the top of the NHL.

9/11/2009
Ryan Bourque makes quick mark in Quebec
Ryan Bourque, the Rangers' third-round draft pick who had a remarkable performance in the recent USA-Russia series, was equally outstanding in his first major-junior preseason game on Sunday.

The son of Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque , Ryan scored a goal and two assists in leading the Quebec Remparts to a 4-2 win over the visiting Rimouski Oceanic.

Bourque picked up his first preseason point just 50 seconds into the game, drawing the primary assist on Kelsey Tessier's goal that gave Quebec a 1-0 lead. Bourque later scored a power-play goal at 9:10 of the middle period to tie the score at 2-2 and had the primary assist on the game-winner by Tessier, which gave Quebec a 3-2 lead at 18:52 of the second period.

It came as no surprise that Bourque was named the game's No. 1 Star. He will take a break from the QMJHL next month to be a part of the Rangers prospects team that will play in the Traverse City (Mich.) Prospects Tournament.

Bourque was the second Rangers draft pick to play in a QMJHL preseason game over the weekend. On Saturday, 2008 Rangers fifth-rounder Chris Doyle scored the first preseason goal for Prince Edward Island in a 6-5 shootout win over visiting Halifax. Doyle's goal came at 12:42 of the opening period to tie the score at 1-1. He later scored the first goal in the overtime shootout.

7/14/2009
Ben Guite Signs With Nashville Predators
Free agent C Ben Guite, who played 168 games for the Colorado Avalanche for three seasons (45 points, 19 goals), signed a contract with the Nashville Predators on July 14th

Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed Ben to a one-year, two-way contract worth $550,000 on the NHL level and $105,000 on the AHL level.

Guite, 30 (7/17/78), has played 168 games with Colorado over the past three seasons, registering 45 points (19g-26a) and 93 penalty minutes. In 2008-09, the 6-1, 211-pound center paced all Avalanche skaters in plus/minus rating (+2), and ranked second among Avalanche forwards in both average shorthanded ice time (2:21) and face-off efficiency (51.5%). The Montreal, Que., native posted career highs in games played (79), goals (11), assists (11) and points (22) two seasons ago, in addition to dressing in all 10 of Colorado’s 2008 playoff contests. Guite made his NHL debut during the 2005-06 season, playing one game for the Boston Bruins. He joined the Colorado Avalanche the next season. Montreal’s eighth choice, 172nd overall (seventh round), in the 1997 Entry Draft, Guite played four seasons at the University of Maine from 1996-2000, winning a National Championships with the Black Bears in 1999.

6/28/2009
Ryan Bourque drafted by New York Rangers.
The Rangers made six picks on Day 2 of the NHL draft and used one of them to take a chance on some Hall of Fame bloodlines, selecting center Ryan Bourque, son of legendary Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque. And the Rangers weren't the only ones jumping into the gene pool.

You could have fielded something of an All-Star team just out of the proud papas Saturday. Bourque, Ulf Samuelsson, Ray Ferraro, Steve Smith, Mike Foligno and former Devil Randy Velischek were among the dads who heard their sons' names called at the Bell Centre. Andy Bathgate - the 18-year-old grandson of the Ranger great by the same name - went to Pittsburgh with the 151st pick.

"As a player, your kids are around it so much, it's tough for them not to kind of fall into it, wanting to do the same thing as dad," Ray Bourque said Saturday, standing beside his Blueshirt-wearing son. "It's kind of neat to have this day happen where we live the dream, and the kids try to follow in your footsteps in some ways and have the opportunity to live their own dream."