| Falcons to return to jerseys of glory days |
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| Written by By KEVIN GORDON Sentinel Assistant Sports Editor |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:12 |
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Bowling Green's hockey team will have a new look this season. The Falcons are going to wear jerseys similar to the ones worn by BG during its glory days of the 1980s and early 1990s. The jerseys will have "Bowling Green" on the front with the school name broken onto two lines. The player's number will be between the words Bowling and Green. BG's Falcon head logo and the player's number will be on the shoulder. The team will wear white at home and brown on the road. It will wear brown pants, and brown or white socks. The uniform will include orange trim. "Being here for three months, it seems like a lot of the success we had came in white at home and brown on the road," BG first-year coach Chris Bergeron said. "I wanted to go back to a little bit of an old school look with maybe a little bit of a modern touch to it. "In a lot of the pictures I saw from 1984 to 1994, a lot of the success came in the same jersey." STAFF: Rob Krohl, the head coach for the Honeybaked midget major team in Oak Park, Mich., has been named BG's director of hockey operations and video coordinator. Krohl is allowed to be on the ice, but NCAA rules limit the amount of actual coaching the director of hockey operations person can do. He lives in Ann Arbor where he works in private business. Bergeron still has to name the team's goaltending coach. SUMMER: Bergeron is pleased with the progress the players have made in their summer strength and conditioning. The players have been reporting to strength coach Ken Goodrich. "I'm looking forward to seeing them face to face so we can see what kind of improvement the returning guys have made and what kind of shape the incoming freshmen are in," Bergeron said. "It'll be a good first impression where their heads were going into the summer because I was pleased during the spring." Of course, the proof will come when the players return to school next month. "It's easy to say it, but then to go ahead and do it on an every day basis and make that commitment to getting stronger, faster, quicker, that sometimes become difficult," he said. "Regardless of what they report to us, we'll see how they've done come late August, early September." FRESH START: Bergeron isn't sure if he will watch video of any games from last season when the Falcons were 5-25-6 overall and 4-20-6 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. "I don't think I will, but I don't want to close the door to it," he said. "I'm not going to do it by myself. If I'm going to do it, we'll do it as a staff. Once we start to put that plan in place, which will be more around the first of August, my feeling is to maybe close the door on last year and look ahead to this year. "It's not a bad thought to see some of the systems they had last year and then be able to say this is what you guys did last year, so it's not that different or it is different, but just being able to compare. Last year is something we don't want to think about. We want to think about this year. It's a clean slate, a new year." WHO: On the recruiting trail, Bergeron is looking for players who want to be part of the program's turnaround. "That means a lot to me," he said. "I want kids who want to be a Bowling Green Falcon. We're not going to beg anybody to come to Bowling Green. We want kids to say I want to come to Bowling Green. That's a huge piece of it." ELITE: Bergeron said BG would recruit elite-level players, if they're interested in joining the program. "We'll gauge their interest," he said. "If their interest level isn't very high, we're not going to beg anybody. We're going to go get people who want to be a part of us. We're going to go after players who will make our team better." |
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