February 22, 2010

Cornell by Way of Scituate

The following article appeared in the February 22 issue of the Boston Herald.

 

By John Connolly
College Hockey

Take a walk along Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, N.Y., these days and you can easily imagine yourself back in the Boston area. Or, more precisely, Scituate.

That’s because Cornell, ranked 10th nationally and contending with Yale for ECAC supremacy, owes much of its success to three Scituate products: Twin brothers Joe and Mike Devin, and Sean Whitney, the younger brother of ex-Boston University star and current U.S. Olympian Ryan Whitney of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks. Joe Devin is a forward, while the other South Shore products are defensemen.

The Big Red scored a 3-0 win against Harvard at Bright Hockey Center on Friday night, and the Massachusetts contingent enjoyed every minute.

Complete article can be accessed via the Herald Web site by clicking here.