McIntyre Begins Professional Career

HAMILTON, N.Y. – Less than a week after his collegiate career came to a close, Colgate’s David McIntyre (Pefferlaw, Ont.) has signed an amateur try-out agreement with the Lowell Devils of the American Hockey League, it was recently announced.

McIntyre joins another former Raiders player in Lowell defenseman Cory Murphy ’01.

In 151 career games at Colgate, McIntyre amassed 131 points (56 goals, 75 assists), which ranks 24th on the all-time point list, while his appearance total ranks sixth all-time.

McIntyre, who was drafted in the fifth round of the 2006 NHL Amateur Draft by the Dallas Stars, was traded twice during his standout junior season.  He was first shipped to Anaheim in a mid-December deal and then onto New Jersey in early February for Sheldon Brookbank.

As a senior, McIntyre appeared in 35 of 36 games and posted 11 goals and 28 assists en route to being named a second team all-ECAC Hockey League honoree.  During the campaign, he was twice named the league’s player of the week on November 9 and November 23.  On November 6, McIntyre posted a four-point evening as Colgate rallied from a three-goal deficit to defeat Harvard.  On that evening, he became the 48th Raider to reach the 100-point milestone.

In 2008-09, McIntyre finished with 21 goals and 22 assists en route to being named a first team all-league performer, a first team all-College Hockey News honoree, a first team Inside College Hockey All-American, a first team AHCA/Reebok Men’s East University All-American, as well as being named one of 10 finalists for the prestigious Hobey Baker Memorial Award.  During the season in Colgate’s national record setting 19 overtime appearances, he posted a point in five of six Raider overtime victories.

As a sophomore, McIntyre tallied 32 points on 15 goals and 17 assists.  He was a major factor in Colgate’s run to the ECAC Hockey semifinals in Albany.  In the Raiders’ best of three upset at seventh-ranked Clarkson, he scored the game winning goal in the second contest as Colgate staved off elimination and then capped off the weekend with a two-goal effort in the deciding game, including the game-winner in double overtime to lift Colgate into the semifinals.  For his efforts versus the Golden Knights, he was named Inside College Hockey’s National Player of the Week.

 Lowell hosts the Providence Bruins, Friday evening.